Vladmir Bonds.

They’d have to flip the park around though.

Linky.

Oh man.

I just gave a stray cat a splinter from the woody I just got.

by Slica on Dec 14, 2009 2:34 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

that might the greatest brittish-ism I’ve ever heard

according to Fox Sports

for 70 Fucking Million Dollars!

Cue Dave Chappelle: “I’m rich biatch!”

he’s said in the past that he strongly prefers to play for a team whose spring training is in Florida.

Minaya, Sabean, Dayton Moore, and Ed Wade are all competing for the podium.

Bill Bavasi deserves special mention, too.

Could be that Beane’s forte is the necessity of being creative, and take that away, and he’d be lost.

IIRC, wasn’t Minaya building a decent team in Montreal, hence his reputation and hiring by the Mets?

since Saunders and Pineda are among Seattle’s best prospects (besides Aumont). Their system is pretty thin.

I’m curious what Paul thinks of Carlos Triunfel. I know he was hurt, but he still has wunderkind potential.

but he’s also fairly good at pitching.

I suppose they could be very frugal and make Melky their starting LFer, Gardner their 4th, and Juan Miranda their DH. Hell, they’d be a thrifty $170-180Mish team!

I just did a little research on Cot’s. Thanks to adding Granderson and re-upping with Pettitte, the Yanks already have $187.6M committed for next year for only 15 guys, and that includes Brackman and Igawa, who won’t even be on the team. So, if you believe their public comments about payroll remaining firm or going down a little, you can rule them out as bidders for Holliday.

They still have to fill out half the team with $400K guys and pay for Melky’s first arby year. If they are truly honest about their comments and will have a payroll under $200M in ‘10, they won’t even have the money for Damon. That would make Melky/Gardner their LF/4th OF.

the A’s should never try and bring in a great player again?

When the Dutch Merchant would visit rebel-held colonies and sell goods – such as ammo, rations, and Adrian Beltre – at incredibly discounted prices.

I only know this from playing the greatest NES game of all time, Liberty or Death, for hundreds of hours as a kid.

Which probably led to the prepubescent weight gain, but let’s not go there…

oh wait….yeah I’m going to go jump off a bridge now.

will be entertaining as hell.

then it’s part of the deal and the Phillies are getting 4 years of Halladay — as durable and unlikely to break-down or decline an ace as there is — for one year of Lee plus whatever else they have to give up (still unclear at this point).

Roy Halladay is pretty much the best pitcher in baseball. He had 9 more CGs than every Phillies rotation combined over the last 5 years. He rules more than everyone not named Lincecum, and going to the NL getting that free out every 9 ABs is going to uhhh hurt, wait thats the wrong word I mean “make him 10 times better”, whats a good word for that?

They could pay him $25MM a year and it would be worth it, he is teh awesome.

traded in July for someone young/potentially really good if the M’s find themselves less competitive than they hoped to be.

hes going to be in for a surprise, but theres no way he signs with the m’s longterm.

but by default, one of the teams from the west has to go to the playoffs.

that 4th prospect is J.C. Ramirez.

I agree that it’s weird if nothing goes from Seattle to Toronto. I thought the whole point of involving Seattle was that Toronto wasn’t satisfied with what the Phillies had to offer.

Though the reports I read here at the time referred to Drabek as “untouchable”, not “available if we get an extension to Halliday’s contract”. Was Halliday wiling to do an extension with the Phillies last July?

It’s different.

and Willis would make Asomugha cry.

It doesn’t make any sense, but its the best explaination yyet. They wanted to keep payroll down.

But Lee was out anyways after this year most likely. The argument has also been made that the Phillies have about 2-3 years where they will have Hamels, Utley, Howard and Rollins together (assuming they pick up his 2011 option). They also have Werth, Ibanez, and a young JA Happ as supporting crew.

Might as well give up a little (Drabek) to win now if you’re them because those other guys will either be gone or ineffective by 2012/3.

Think a less developed Carlos Carrasco.

w = weighted (which I assumes refers to the fact that it seems to be a scale where 100=average, and this measure is weighted for, I dunno, ballpark effects or position adjustment or something)
RC = Runs Created, which is an old metric that you calculate using a player’s run-elements (PAs, BBs, 1bs, 2bs, etc.) that takes into account the expected-run effect of each element
+ = above/below average (which, I assume, is defined at 100, just like OPS+).

at least on the crappy A’s team he would be close to home. Now he will be on a crappy team in Canada.

About the same time the Bobby moved on.

Silva was signed to a 4yr/$48MM deal. Seattle just sent $9MM to Chicago, and just like that, they’re out of this contract.

I agree Seattle made out in spades (though apparently the M’s are kicking in a lot of money, which I didn’t know when I wrote the comment).