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MLB Hotstove 08

Excellent. Sign Lowell.

Does Cashman even read stats?

Lowell hit .324 @ Fenway and .276 everywhere else.

.993 OPS vs. .767 OPS.

Let's put it this way...

Playing in Fenway Park, Mike Lowell is Ryan Howard or Albert Pujols (a little less power...14 HR in 292 AB)

Everywhere else, he's Shane Victorino (without the speed) or Austin Kearns.
 
Orioles To Attempt To Extend Bedard

It looks like Erik Bedard is Andy MacPhail's top priority right now. He's already gauged the trade interest for his ace, and is now exploring the idea of a contract extension.

Jeff Zrebiec says the Mets, Yankees, Angels, and Dodgers expressed interest in the southpaw starter. Interesting to see the Halos in the mix. The Dodgers are pushing the hardest for him. Two years of Bedard is expected to cost a team three MLB-ready players. The names mentioned for the Dodgers are Jonathan Broxton, Matt Kemp, and Clayton Kershaw. While Kershaw's not MLB-ready, I doubt the Orioles would mind. Zrebiec says the problem with the Dodgers is that Kemp and Kershaw would be part of a Miguel Cabrera package.

What would a contract extension cost? I'm thinking it would require something like four years, $65MM to cover the two team-controlled years and two years of free agency.

Zrebiec also mentions that the Mets inquired on Ramon Hernandez, but found the price of a high-end prospect prohibitive.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.bedard15nov15,0,4916561.story?track=rss
 
This year really seems to underline the trend that teams are not going to trade away good prospects for (expensive) established players, however good they may be. Teams can either spend lots of money on a very thin free agent crop or wait to draft and develop their own players. And that's probably the best way forward these days.
 
Naimfan said:
This year really seems to underline the trend that teams are not going to trade away good prospects for (expensive) established players, however good they may be. Teams can either spend lots of money on a very thin free agent crop or wait to draft and develop their own players. And that's probably the best way forward these days.
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There is no such thing as a sure thing when dealing with "prospects."

Your method has the problem of waiting for prospects who may well, and often don't, develop into anything. If you want to win now, the percentages say to pay for the players who can get you there now, not the ones who may get you there three or four years from now. Your proposal is definitely cheaper, but not necessarily the "best way forward."
 
Sayhey said:
There is no such thing as a sure thing when dealing with "prospects."

Your method has the problem of waiting for prospects who may well, and often don't, develop into anything. If you want to win now, the percentages say to pay for the players who can get you there now, not the ones who may get you there three or four years from now. Your proposal is definitely cheaper, but not necessarily the "best way forward."
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It entirely depends on how you define "prospects." It's much easier to build a competitive team after parting with a minor league player with potential, than it is to trade young players who's potential may be unrealized, but who have at least demonstrated the ability to play in the major leagues. The former can be restocked in the farm system over time; the latter must be replaced immediately.
 
Lets say the Yankees trade hughes for Santana. Is it wise to take on his contract and hope he can stay healthy for many years or do you gamble on Hughes being an ace and not having to pay him. It is a gamble to trade away prospects that might be great.
 
Sayhey said:
There is no such thing as a sure thing when dealing with "prospects."

Your method has the problem of waiting for prospects who may well, and often don't, develop into anything. If you want to win now, the percentages say to pay for the players who can get you there now, not the ones who may get you there three or four years from now. Your proposal is definitely cheaper, but not necessarily the "best way forward."
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First, that's hardly my "method."

Second, I must have missed saying that prospects were a sure thing.

Third, I was simply observing that given today's thin crop of free agent talent, developing your own talent is probably the best way forward, as opposed to overpaying for free agents.
 
Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges

SAN FRANCISCO -- Baseball superstar Barry Bonds was charged Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.

The indictment comes three months after the 43-year-old Bonds, one of the biggest names in professional sports, passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's career home run leader, his sport's most hallowed record. Bonds, who parted ways with the San Francisco Giants at the end of last season and has yet to sign with another team, also holds the game's single-season home run record of 73.

While Bonds was chasing Aaron amid the adulation of San Franciscans and the scorn of baseball fans almost everywhere else, due to his notoriously prickly personality and nagging steroid allegations, a grand jury quietly worked behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment.

"I'm surprised," said John Burris, one of Bonds' attorneys, "but there's been an effort to get Barry for a long time. "I'm curious what evidence they have now they didn't have before."

The indictment charges Bonds with lying when he said that he didn't knowingly take steroids given to him by his personal trainer Greg Anderson. He also denied taking steroids at anytime in 2001 when he was pursuing the single season home-run record.

"During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes," the indictment reads.

He is also charged with lying that Anderson never injected him with steroids.

"Greg wouldn't do that," Bonds testified in December 2003 when asked if Anderson ever gave him any drugs that needed to be injected. "He knows I'm against that stuff."
 
A-Rod and the Yankees have agreed on a deal according to ESPN SportsCenter.

10 years, $275 million + incentives for the all time home run record, etc.
 
zioxide said:
A-Rod and the Yankees have agreed on a deal according to ESPN SportsCenter.

10 years, $275 million + incentives for the all time home run record, etc.
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Can you confirm this. I can't find any links.
 
zioxide said:
A-Rod and the Yankees have agreed on a deal according to ESPN SportsCenter.

10 years, $275 million + incentives for the all time home run record, etc.
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Everything I hear and read is about how badly Boras botched this.

Did anyone ever consider that this was the type of deal they were looking for all along?
 
looks like peavy is going to be a no-name again:(

he won the cy vote outright. thank you bonds and aroid for ruining his special day.:mad:

for those that don't know, i've been a big peavy fan since pretty much day one. this guy is the real deal...expect during big games where he chokes alot. he's sorta like peyton manning.
 
Sobe said:
Everything I hear and read is about how badly Boras botched this.

Did anyone ever consider that this was the type of deal they were looking for all along?
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The Yankees offered that deal first, Boras said no.
 
Sobe said:
He explored the market and then took the best deal available...I don't see the problem here.
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The original deal the Yankees offered had 21 million of the Rangers money. This deal is cheaper then the one originally offered.
 
MacNut said:
The original deal the Yankees offered had 21 million of the Rangers money. This deal is cheaper then the one originally offered.
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I thought he was getting $252 over 10 for the old deal.

Now he seems to be getting $275 over 10.

So he extends the life of the contract and makes $2.3 million more per year plus huge incentives.

I wish I could make that kind of mistake.
 
Sobe said:
I thought he was getting $252 over 10 for the old deal.

Now he seems to be getting $275 over 10.

So he extends the life of the contract and makes $2.3 million more per year plus huge incentives.

I wish I could make that kind of mistake.
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The Yankees were going to offer him a 10 year, 300 million extension/restructuring if he didn't opt out. But since he opted out, they lose the 21 million texas was still paying for. So they essentially took that off of his new deal.
 
Sobe said:
I thought he was getting $252 over 10 for the old deal.

Now he seems to be getting $275 over 10.

So he extends the life of the contract and makes $2.3 million more per year plus huge incentives.

I wish I could make that kind of mistake.
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Before he opted out the Yankees were going to offer him an extension. The contract would go through 2010 when the original deal ran out. It would include Texas' share of 21 million. Then the Yankees were going to kick in another 7 years on top of that.
Yankees executives had tried to arrange a face-to-face meeting with Rodriguez last month, in which they intended to offer Rodriguez, initially, a five-year extension worth about $140 million to $150 million -- on top of the three years and $81 million he still was owed under his previous contract. It was the team's intention to increase its offer, perhaps to nine or 10 years, so that Rodriguez, in the end, would make something in the area of nine years and $260 million, or 10 years and $289 million.

But in response, Boras informed the Yankees that to arrange a meeting they would have to be prepared to offer a deal of at least $350 million. And, about 72 hours later, on Oct. 28, during Game 4 of the World Series, Boras informed the Yankees of Rodriguez's decision to opt out of the $252 million deal he signed with Texas seven years ago.
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