Aramis Ramirez To Become A Free Agent, Plus Other Hot Stove News
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 8:56 AM PDT
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PrintThe World Series is over, but a few pieces of baseball news have trickled out over the last day or so.
The Chicago Cubs exercised their half of their mutual option for 2012 for third baseman Aramis Ramirez, worth $16 million, but Ramirez plans to opt out, and will become a free agent. Bruce Levine at ESPN Chicago has the details. For a team like the Dodgers looking for an impact bat, but not willing or able to dive into the deep end of the free agent pool, Ramirez is certainly an option. Ramirez had a bad 2010 (.241/.294/.452), but he has had a slugging percentage of .510 or higher for seven of the last eight years, and over the last eight years has hit .297/.359/.533 (a 127 OPS+), averaging 28 home runs and 96 RBI per year. Ramirez turns 34 in June.
In National League West news, the San Francisco Giants paid big money to keep a pair of left-handed relievers on Sunday. Javier Lopez signed a two-year deal worth $8.5 million, and the Giants exercised their $5 million option for 2012 on Jeremy Affeldt. Hank Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle has the details.
The Colorado Rockies and Jason Giambi both exercised a mutual option on Saturday that will bring back the soon-to-be 41-year old for $1 million, per Troy Renck of the Denver Post. As a pinch hitter and occasional starter at first base for Colorado last season, Giambi hit .260/.355/.603 with 13 home runs, a number that would have ranked third on the Dodgers. Giambi was the second player 40 years old or older in MLB history to slug at least .600 in a season (minimum 150 plate appearances), joining Ted Williams, who had a .645 slugging percentage at age 41 in 390 plate appearances for the 1960 Boston Red Sox.
Finally, what a way to go out. After winning his third World Series on Friday, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa retired this morning after 33 years as manager. He is one of two men to manage over 5,000 games in MLB, along with Connie Mack. LaRussa is third all-time with 2,728 wins, behind only Mack and John McGraw.
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Braves options
They picked up Eric Hinske’s option for $1.5 million, and declined Nate McLouth’s $10.65 million option, instead paying him a $1.25 million buyout, per David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Sucks, I wanted Hinske.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel it needs to be said
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=96&position=OF
Screw Andruw Jones.
I would have taken the number he’s put up the last 3 years with us in 2008. Sure we ended up getting Manny, but then came the extra trouble later in 2010 and deferred money and such.
Everything else aside, screw Andruw Jones.
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New MLB CBA expected by Wednesday night's FA open market opening
Thus, a new labor agreement is expected by the time the free-agent market opens at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, enabling certain new rules governing free agency to take effect.
All that remains are the final details.
The draft, sources say, likely will be modified, not by hard slotting, but by a tax similar to the luxury tax on payrolls, with teams penalized for spending over a certain limit.
Draft-pick compensation for free agents also will change, with fewer restrictions on clubs that want to sign certain premier, or Type A, free agents. Some of those restrictions would ease immediately, sources say; other adjustments would take effect in 2012.
So the rich get richer?
Draft-pick compensation for free agents also will change, with fewer restrictions on clubs that want to sign certain premier, or Type A, free agents. Some of those restrictions would ease immediately, sources say; other adjustments would take effect in 2012.
Fausto Carmona wasn’t working out so they went with his drunken equivalent?
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I had no idea that Lowe had such a bad season. A bit unlucky (FIP 3.70, XFIP 3.65, ERA 5.05), but still.
One year left on his contract at $15 million according to B-Ref.
Even if Lowe is that bad they’re a better team. They gave 36 starts to Mitch Talbot, David Huff, Zach McCallister and Jennmar Gonzalez, along with having Fausto get bombed most of the year.
If this is for nothing and the Braves eat most of the contract, it’s a good trade.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
From Buster Olney
Atlanta is absorbing all but $5 million of the money owed to Derek Lowe in this; second-line player return going from CLE to ATL.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
The money was a sunk cost. They are saving $5 million
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I like the trade for Cleveland.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
me too
Pick up a starter for $5 million, hope for a bounceback. Fair risk for them.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Good deal if they didn't give up much
I think Lowe can still be about average. I’m assuming some money was eaten?
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le gasp
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Chris Smith is the minor league pitcher, per Buster
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
lol, I got him confused with Chris Perez at first.
by eitherethier on Oct 31, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Ramirez had a bad 2010
How was his 2011?
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
.306/.361/.510
26 HR, 93 RBI in 149 games
127 OPS+
35 doubles
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
That's very good
What can we get him for? 3/27? I’m out of my element here.
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
He walked away from $16 million for 2012. I don’t expect he will get that per year or anything but he will want a 3-4 year deal at at least $10-12 million IMO.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I was only off by 15 million
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Numbers like that, I’m thinking somewhere closer to 4/60.
I’m already penciling this in as the worst signing of the offseason.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Edwin Jackson too.
Man there’s a lot of money to go around and not a lot to spend it on.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
“Shit we missed out on CJ Wilson and our number two starter is Bartolo Colon”
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I would have signed Adam Dunn last year, and I would love to sign Aramis this year. I’m glad we get the chance to sign Aramis since we didn’t sign Adam.
especially
since we direly need a third baseman
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
his defensive numbers don’t pass the eye test. He’s better over there than that. Plus, we had Aaron Miles, starting 3B.
I think we should refer to Miles henceforth as Short Arm McGee
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Heater Hunting Hobbit
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Sunk cost fallacy or he plays second.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
But there’s better 2nd base options in FA then they are at 3rd base.
Guys like Aaron Hill, Mark Ellis.
Heck, for about the same money, you can probably sign Jimmy Rollins and have Dee Gordon play second.
Waiting for you to mention a better player than Aramis Ramirez
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Jimmy Rollins did win a MVP.
And nobody I listed is going to cost as much as Ramirez, I’m just wary of doling out large contracts to 2nd/3rd tier talent, like the Dodgers traditionally do under Colletti. (Jason Schimdt, Nomar, etc.)
I rather spend what I have on elite talent, or just pocket it for a rainy day.
If you can get long term deals from Kemp, Kershaw, and sign marginal talent to fill out the roster, I consider that a win.
Signing a guy like Ramirez, and then letting Kemp leave a year later does the team no good. I’m not saying its a strict either/or situation, but the team is still in a bankruptcy, there’s only so much money to go around.
It does the team good in 2012. Besides, you might pass on Aramis, et al and lose Kemp a year later anyway. At least this way you make a run while you still have a superstar (Kemp) in his prime.
by Michael White on Oct 31, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Wasn’t that the thinking when signing Uribe. He had pop, he gets RBIs, etc. I think Regifield was the one who said that Uribe signed the 2nd highest free agent contract for a 2nd baseman.
Yeah, Ramirez is a good player, but he’s going to cost more than anybody else on the roster, plus he’s getting old. I don’t want to pay 16 mil a year for somebody’s 34-38 age seasons.
He won’t be signing a 5-year, $80 million deal.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Me neither, but I’ll do it for his 34 – 37 age seasons:)
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Uribe was nowhere near Aramis
He has a .533 slugging the last 8 years with around a .360 or whatever it was OBP.
The similarities between Uribe and Aramis are that they are men that play 3B in the MLB, and they end there.
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how does Aramis
look leaning against a wall?
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
by mleadman on Oct 31, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They both collect old soda bottle caps from what I hear
Or I saw them both at the last convention anyway
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Nomar’s contract wasn’t that big and Schmidt was a top-tier talent, who was be broken. An Aramis deal might be another Juan Pierre or it might not, but he’s definitely better than anyone else out there or anyone we have.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
an MVP he shouldn't have won (though a great year)
and he’s been much worse since (that was 07), and just had a year slugging under .400 this year with a just above average OBP. I hope the Giants pay him a ton.
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an MVP he shouldn't have won (though a great year)
and he’s been much worse since (that was 07), and just had a year slugging under .400 this year with a just above average OBP. I hope the Giants pay him a ton.
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2 years 18 million is not quite the albatross you are making Nomar's contract out to be.
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For me an albatross of a contract is one that hinders a team from making moves that would help the team. Nomar’s contract did not do that.
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t remember thinking his arm was that good. Excellent range plays at 2nd as well.
by Michael White on Oct 31, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
if we get jim loney Im sold
james loney on the other hand is terrible.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Oct 31, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Dodgers have 30/1 odds to win the 2012 World Series, per Bodog.
Bodog also has the Dodgers at 12/1 to sign Pujols, the same odds as the Yankees, Red Sox, and Giants FWIW.
how much did that guy who bet on the Cards winning it all get?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
That doesn’t include the 125K he won before the World Series, correct?
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
He won $125k for the pennant, and $250k for the WS
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
The IRS is going to love having a word with him
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
A nice problem to have
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
On a payout like that, he would have had to fill out a W-9 for the casino on the spot before receiving any money. I forget what the minimum is for that…something like $1,000
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Yup we call the cash be gone
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I won $3,000 on a slot machine a couple years back and while the Price is Right payout style of 30 $100 bills right there at the machine was awesome, I had to fill out a W-9 first.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
A little higher than that
My wife once hit a $1125 jackpot (circa five years ago) on a 25¢and didn’t fill out any paperwork while the cash was placed in her hand by the attendant. It was on this machine:
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by David Young on Oct 31, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Posting odds before teams are built is whack
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
If the Dodgers did nothing else this winter but simply extend Matt Kemp and Sign Aramis Ramirez to a stupid contract I would consider it a huge huge win.
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FTMFW?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
FTMFHHW
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
For the Mother Fucking Huell Howser Win?
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
“and here we are in beautiful Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, California! We are here to see new Dodger third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who signed for $54 million worth of California gold.”
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
GOLD!!!
SWEET, BEAUTIFUL, GOLLLLDD!!!! EHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
6/10?
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
the Traffic Wizard
drops his wand in shock
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Frank needs to get in line at the Federal Reserve
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
Eric LeGrand, a former Rutgers football player who is paralyzed from the neck-down after making a tackle in 2010, led Rutgers out to the field before their game on Saturday. As the crowd chants, “52!”
That’s a YouTube link.
he will be doing double switches in heaven
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Oct 31, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
With a brief stop in an intersection.
by Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache on Oct 31, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Will be eligible in 2014, with Torre and Cox. Also that year, Glavine, Maddux, and Frank Thomas. Hell of a class
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
You know Eric is right, it is just a matter of him explaining to us why’s he right.
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
With managers it is different than players. The HOF put out a note this morning about LaRussa being eligible that year. I don’t know, that might be the next time the veterans committee considers managers.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
But isn’t the reason you need to wait is so that you put him in proper context?
If people are voting him in now are still riding high on this season, they might forget important facts like LaRussa sold poisoned milk to school children.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was so they could be sure the bugger was really retired. Didn’t know it had anything to do with context.
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
On a serious tangent, I don’t think baseball separates on field management from the players. Baseball is the one sport where managers and coaches dress up in uniform, walk to on the field throughout the game, dictate/argue/converse with the umpires, and the same rules and regulations apply to managers as they do with players. (i.e. arguing against balls/strikes, etc.)
Here it is what I found from the Baseball HOF website for the Expansion Era:
Managers and umpires with 10 or more years in baseball and retired for at least five years. Candidates who are 65 years or older are eligible six months following retirement;
I guess they only have to wait six months so they aren’t dead by the time if they had to wait five years?
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Jamie Moyer might test this to see if it happens for players too :)
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Julio Franco's
window has closed
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
So wouldn't this have made Cox and Torre eligible this last year?
Or am i completely reading this wrong?
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The last vote was in October 2010, when Cox and Torre were still active
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
From HOF president Jeff Idelson this morning:
LaRussa retired today+the last cap he wore is in Coop. He’ll be eligible for HOF with Cox+Torre in 2014 as part of Expansion Era.
Expansion Era elects players ever 3 years. Last was October 2010 (inducted in 2011).
There is a five-year wait for managers and umpires, but candidates 65 years old or older only need to wait 6 months.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
oh but since they meet every 3 years he still has to wait. I see
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My guess
Maddux makes it (isn’t RJ eligible that year too? and Clemens?) as does RJ, but Glavine, Thomas, and Clemens don’t make it first ballot. The first two don’t because “they aren’t first ballot worthy” and Clemens cause of the steroid allegations. The next year Glavine and Thomas make it.
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In order for somebody to stay on the ballot but not make the HOF, they need to hit some percentage of voters. What if there are a bunch of stupid voters who all want Glavine in the HOF, but don’t want him in the first year? He therefore drops off the ballot.
That would almost be worth Glavine not getting in to teach people how stupid the “not first ballot worthy” thing is.
by Michael White on Oct 31, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I wasn’t impressed either. Special teams looked great, but both offense and especially defense looked pedestrian. That being said, once they put in Bennett in the second half, WSU couldn’t stop Oregon. Not sure if Bennet has won the job for good, but he looked much better than Thomas.
by Michael White on Oct 31, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I definitely don't agree with it, but people are this stupid
If you are a HOFer you should go in first ballot, not purposefully 2nd ballot.
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2015
Features Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Gary Sheffield, John Smoltz
In 2016, throw in Ken Griffy Jr., Trevor Hoffman and Andy Pettitte.
Plus in 2014, you’ll have some of Barry Bonds, Clemens, Biggio, Schilling, Sosa, Piazza still around.
Glavine makes it easily on the first ballot.
Randy Johnson isn’t eligible until 2015.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought they all retired same year, guess Johnson stuck around another year
I think Glavine is a HOFer, but for some reason I think he won’t make the first ballot.
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Heck of a Stanford / USC game. In all the sports in all the worlds no one has a better tie breaker system then college football.
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Nothing beats actual sudden death. The Romans had it right.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Lee Corso was sweating
but his streak is intact
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
seeing him dance around in the tree was enough to make one vomit
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Saint Claire was traded to the Cubs today with the Cubs eating 37 Million and the Dodgers on the hook for 250,000.
/notreally
Now that my friends is an albatross
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If the Marlins weren’t willing to spend money on a graphic designer, why would they spent money on players?
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
I think Larry’s nine year old daughter did a bang up job
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd like to see those stripes
carry over to the uni Astros-style
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
to be fair, Baltimore Football, Inc rechartered in Indianapolis so that deed was worthless : )
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Not even close
The Indians wouldn’t do 1/10.5, no way he gets close to that.
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I would rather have loney and sands
then sands and sizemore
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
I can name at least five reasons why the Rays wouldn’t do that.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
He has 3 club options for the next three years, at 7/9/12.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
7, 9, 12, all team options.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
This is where we make a handshake agreement with Barajas not to accept arbitration, right?
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
No way we offer Barajas arbitration. He made $3 million last year, he could make around $5 if he accepts, (Which he would.)
Because it wouldn’t hurt him in any way?
This is how the Padres and Blue Jays end up with dozens of comp picks.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
It does if the arbitration offer is the highest salary he can get on the market. According to b-ref, Barajas’ made $3.25 million last year, his highest salary to date. He is probably not going to sign for that amount again, so the only way he can get something close to that is by accepting arbitration. So why would he agree to something that will deny him that?
Barajas’ options
Make agreement to decline arbitration – he becomes a free agent.
Don’t make agreement – he doesn’t get arbitration.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
He becomes a free agent anyway. Only way I see it benefiting Barajas if the Dodgers offered him something.
He gets to be a special assistant to the GM after he retires.
by Michael White on Oct 31, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
It would be a nice thing for him to do at no loss to him.
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by regfairfield on Oct 31, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
MLB Trade Rumors has the official Elias list, which confirms Rod Barajas as a Type B. They also list Hiroki Kuroda, but he can’t be offered arb so that is irrelevant.
Grain of salt: last year MLB TR didn’t have Vicente Padilla on their “official” list, and he was a Type B. But I don’t think any other Dodgers came close anyway.
Don't do Ramierez
My guess is that Ramierez will end up doing a three year contract at between 10-12 per year. I tend to think he will have a significant drop off, if we could get him for two years that would be fine.
Wondering if Ned can pull something off with the Mets for David Wright. Wright has two years left, but the second year is an option and if traded he would probably cancel that. While his salary his hefty 16million, I think he has a large upside and Dodgers probably can’t handle any long term contracts until bankruptcy is finished.
Much as I like David Wright, I think he may have many of the same question marks A-ram does.
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I think his defense has been taking a hit recently
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
according to UZR
his last three years he’s been about -10
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
actually no
A-Ram UZR
2009: -2.8
2010: -6.5
2011: -9.4
Wright
2009: -10
2010: -10.6
2011: -10.5
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
ah
yeah I meant every year.
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by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 31, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
We just watched Aaron Miles play 1/2 of the games this year at 3B
are we THIS worried about 3B defense at this point?
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If he gets out of there I think he slugs closer to .475-.485 than .460.
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It's an improvement ;)
Plus I’d still be happy with .460 slugging from third base in this third base era.
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funny this got brought up. Mets announced today plans to lower the outfield wall to 8ft, bring it up to 2ft closer to home, add 100 new seats, and paint the wall blue.
/MetsTwitter
I wonder how many balls were hit 2 feet short of that wall or off the high part of the wall last year
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Just as many for the Met’s as for the opponents.
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by Phil Gurnee on Oct 31, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Changing park dimensions are things shitty teams do
by Eric Stephen on Oct 31, 2011 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
What year did the Dodgers move home plate forward?
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I'd absolutely love to land David Wright
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wrighda03.shtml#2009-2011-sum:batting_standard
The last 3 years his numbers are down from his elite days, but still averaged .284/.364/.463 in an even worse hitting environment (for the most part) than Dodger Stadium with a 124 OPS+. He’s making a lot of money, and his defense has dropped, but great offensive numbers for a 3B is worth his contract, plus I think there is still room for improving his slugging percentage closer to .500 where it used to be.
Trade any minor leaguers for him not named Lee and I’d be thrilled.
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The Hot Stove Keeps Burning
Matt Maloney who was apparently on the Reds the last three years is now a Twin.
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2012 NFL Draft - First Round QBs
Per Draft Insider:
Andrew Luck
Matt Barkley
Robert Griffin
Landry Jones
yes, because he raised the funds to renovate Memorial Stadium and it’d be cruel to fire him before completion of the project
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Cal is the only Pac 12 school that still has a cannon, this is true
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s on call for the zombie apocalypse
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s not like Berkeley is Humbolt. Now those folk are high
by Josie Becker on Oct 31, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Chris Haydock, the Dodgers assistant farm director, is leaving to work with MLB, per Dylan Hernandez and Steve Dilbeck.
3 way tie raiders have no tiebreaker
since they still play SD twice i would rather stay ahead of KC at all costs. they look scary to me.
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
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