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MLB Hotstove 08

zioxide said:
He looked pretty good in the playoffs.
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Exactly..And that's why you have him. The guy has been money in the playoffs.That plus he'd be a nice stabilizer for a young staff:
According to Rob Bradford of the Boston Herald, Curt Schilling and the Red Sox are close to an incentive-laden one-year contract. When reached for comment, Schilling said "something could potentially get done."
The Red Sox would be looking at a 2008 rotation of Josh Beckett, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Curt Schilling, Clay Buchholz, and Jon Lester. Given the two kids and the 41 year-old, Tim Wakefield will get plenty of work. This is a very deep rotation.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the Tigers make a run at Gagne,esp since Zumaya is out for at least half the season..

And it looks like the Marlins are doing some shopping of players as well:
Marlins | Cabrera, Willis both on trade block
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:41:21 -0800

Updating a previous item, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Juan C. Rodriguez reports the Florida Marlins will entertain trade offers for both SP Dontrelle Willis and 3B Miguel Cabrera at the general manager meetings this week in Orlando, to try and fill holes on the club in a faster way. "We have to find ways to try to improve the ballclub and shore up our deficiencies, and try to win more games," Marlins president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said. "Whatever the payroll is, we have to try and find a way to get that done. Considering we finished last in the league in pitching and last in the league in defense, I don't think we're close enough to where we want to be."
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Teh Don Ditty said:
I could've sworn that the Dodgers home uniforms didn't have names on the back.... Hey IJ can you explain that one to me please?
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They tried that for one year, I think, then went back to putting the names on. It was an effort to be more traditional, since the Dodgers didn't have names on their uniforms until the early 1970s. It wasn't popular with anyone though, so they switched back.



fotografica said:
And it looks like the Marlins are doing some shopping of players as well:
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Florida knows they won't be able to afford him in two years when he becomes a free agent. And they probably figure they should trade him now while his value is high and he hasn't passed 300 pounds yet.
 
Schilling: $8 million base.

Schilling can earn another $2 million in clauses for meeting weight limits and an additional $3 million for performance bonues.
 
aloofman said:
They tried that for one year, I think, then went back to putting the names on. It was an effort to be more traditional, since the Dodgers didn't have names on their uniforms until the early 1970s. It wasn't popular with anyone though, so they switched back.
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I'm pretty sure the names were gone for both the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

Florida knows they won't be able to afford him in two years when he becomes a free agent. And they probably figure they should trade him now while his value is high and he hasn't passed 300 pounds yet.
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Let's see if the Dodgers make a run at Cabrera.
 
So now that this deal is done, our rotation is looking like this:

  1. Beckett
  2. Matsuzaka
  3. Lester
  4. Schilling
  5. Buchholz
  6. Wakefield

I'm guessing Wakefield will start in the bullpen and the Sox will probably try to trade Tavarez to pick up a different reliever or something.
 
IJ Reilly said:
I'm pretty sure the names were gone for both the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
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Was it two years? That could be. I thought it looked pretty odd at the time.

IJ Reilly said:
Let's see if the Dodgers make a run at Cabrera.
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Cabrera has gotten fat and slow at an awfully young age. I'd need some real reassurance that he's going to slim down again.



zioxide said:
So now that this deal is done, our rotation is looking like this:

  1. Beckett
  2. Matsuzaka
  3. Lester
  4. Schilling
  5. Buchholz
  6. Wakefield

I'm guessing Wakefield will start in the bullpen and the Sox will probably try to trade Tavarez to pick up a different reliever or something.
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Considering the fragility of Schilling and the inexperience of Buchholz, Wakefield will be pretty nice to have around.
 
aloofman said:
Was it two years? That could be. I thought it looked pretty odd at the time.
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This is my recollection. I also thought it was a odd move. I assumed it was a cost-saving effort.

Cabrera has gotten fat and slow at an awfully young age. I'd need some real reassurance that he's going to slim down again.
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He's also been a lot less than brilliant defensively. The Marlins might get a better offer for him from the AL, the home for fat, slow and old players. ;)
 
IJ Reilly said:
He's also been a lot less than brilliant defensively. The Marlins might get a better offer for him from the AL, the home for fat, slow and old players. ;)
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You just named Barry Bonds.:p But he's not in the AL yet.
 
We'll see if anything comes of this:

Interest in Coco

A number of teams are believed to be interested in Red Sox center fielder Coco Crisp, including the Twins, Rangers, Braves, Phillies and Cubs.

The Red Sox are believed to be interested in pitching from the Twins. Rangers catcher Gerald Laird interests the Sox. The Phillies, who expect to lose Aaron Rowand in free agency, and the Braves also need help in center.

Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said the Red Sox won’t trade Crisp just because Jacoby Ellsbury is ready to play for the big club.

“Yeah, I don’t agree with that,” Epstein said. “I think we’re very lucky to have a lot of outfield depth, particularly in center field. That’s an asset. I see that as a factor that should contribute to us winning a lot of games next year, and we’d be crazy to deplete that depth just for the sake of depleting it. As is the case every offseason, we’ll explore our options and see what’s out there. But unless there’s a very significant return, I don’t see a trade in that area.”
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MacNut said:
How much can they really expect to get back for Coco.
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I'm thinking younger guys/prospects,esp a catcher..

I'm wondering if the Dodgers are really looking at Lowell?:
The Sox say publicly that they want to keep Mike Lowell, but privately fear that Lowell might command a four- or even a five-year deal on the open market, given the interest from the Yankees, Dodgers and Phillies, among other clubs.
Sox officials continue to work on trades for younger corner infielders such as Dodgers third baseman Andy LaRoche. But if the Sox lost Lowell, they almost certainly would entertain the idea of signing Rodriguez more seriously.
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Nothing would please me more then seeing A-Rod in Boston just destroying that team.:p I would gladly take Lowell to make that happen.:):cool:
 
MacNut said:
Nothing would please me more then seeing A-Rod in Boston just destroying that team.:p I would gladly take Lowell to make that happen.:):cool:
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Stranger things have happened..I never thought Manny would be entering the eighth year of his contract with the Sox..I remember the night Duquette signed him..I thought "8 years??wow"...
 
fotografica said:
Stranger things have happened..I never thought Manny would be entering the eighth year of his contract with the Sox..I remember the night Duquette signed him..I thought "8 years??wow"...
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But Manny is not getting 350. A-Rod has a way of destroying clubhouses plus the media attention he will get.
 
I would rather give Lowell 5 years at 25 million a year then give A-Rod 10 years at 35 million a year.
 
MacNut said:
Mainly greed and wanting to really piss off Selig.
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On the part of the Giants, keeping the fan's butts in the seats to watch a last-place team.

Lowell could make sense for the Dodgers. It wouldn't be the first time they signed a third baseman from Boston. LA has no incumbent at third. Anybody who can field well and hit with power is a candidate.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Lowell could make sense for the Dodgers. It wouldn't be the first time they signed a third baseman from Boston. LA has no incumbent at third. Anybody who can field well and hit with power is a candidate.
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He would certainly be a good guy to have, but his price is going to be very high and he isn't young anymore. I like LaRoche, but he needs more playing time to see what kind of hitter he's going to be. He would be more bang for the buck than Lowell, but if you start LaRoche instead of signing Lowell, you probably need to sign another bat somewhere anyway.

I think Lowell might wait until after Rodriguez signs to see what the market indicates. If Rodriguez gets $30 million for ten years, Lowell could ask for $15-20 for five. And if Rodriguez goes somewhere besides the Yankees, then the Red Sox and Yankees are outbidding each other for Lowell.

It's all so complicated. :eek:
 
ORLANDO, Fla. -- For the first time Tuesday, baseball general managers recommended instant replay be used to help umpires make close calls.

The recommendation, by a 25-5 vote, was limited to boundary calls -- whether potential home runs are fair or foul, whether balls go over fences or hit the top and bounce back, and whether fans have interfered with a possible homer.

Five general managers -- Dan O'Dowd (Rockies), Josh Byrnes (Diamondbacks), Jim Bowden (Nationals), John Mozeliak (Cardinals) and Billy Beane (A's) -- were in charge of the recommendation.

"We have a very technologically savvy group of GMs," Solomon said. "I was surprised that we had five teams that said no."

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig opposes the use of replays but said last month he was willing to let GMs examine the issue.
"I don't like instant replay because I don't like all the delays. I think it sometimes creates as many problems or more than it solves," Selig said then.

But Jimmie Lee Solomon, an executive vice president in the commissioner's office, thinks Selig's stance has changed a bit recently.

"He seemed to be softer, at least on the consideration of the subject," Solomon said Tuesday.

He added it was unclear how the proposal will proceed and acknowledged there is "glacier-like movement in baseball" when it comes to innovation. Solomon said if Selig is willing, the commissioner probably would run the idea by owners. The plan needs approval from the players' association and umpires.

Solomon said GMs favored having a Major League Baseball official in a central place with access to all camera angles. If there is a disputed call, that official would be contacted and would view the television replay to make a decision.

A baseball executive told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney that instant replay is not likely to be implemented in 2008.

Solomon also said that to speed up games, baseball was considering limiting the number of times a hitter could step out of the batter's box during an at-bat and the number of times any player could visit the mound.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3096923
 
MacNut said:
Solomon said GMs favored having a Major League Baseball official in a central place with access to all camera angles. If there is a disputed call, that official would be contacted and would view the television replay to make a decision.
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I think the only way that could work is if the umpires on the field can't agree and ask for someone with access to the camera angles to look at it. That doesn't happen very often.

MacNut said:
Solomon also said that to speed up games, baseball was considering limiting the number of times a hitter could step out of the batter's box during an at-bat and the number of times any player could visit the mound.
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I think Bill James had a very practical suggestion to reduce some of the time between pitches: batters can't step out of the box at all, unless to collect themselves (from say, a brushback pitch that put them in the dirt, or a foul ball off the foot). To balance that out, pitchers could only throw to first base twice in an inning, which would reduce the number of throws to only occasions when a pickoff is really likely. The games would move faster, both sides would have to be ready, and there would be more stolen base attempts.
 
I thought they made a rule in the spring that the pitcher had 12 seconds from the time the batter was in the box to throw the ball. I don't seem to remember seeing that.
 
MacNut said:
I would rather give Lowell 5 years at 25 million a year then give A-Rod 10 years at 35 million a year.
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talk about overpaying.

this is the problem with baseball.

the free agent market (especially boras) and ridicuously overpriced contracts driving prices up.

no way in hell Lowell is worth 5 years at 25 million a year. that's ****ing obsurd.

a-rod for 30 million a year 10 years is ridiculous too. He deserves like 6/7 years at 22 mil a year.

lowell 4 years 13-14 mil a year.
 
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