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MLB Hotstove 08

CHICAGO -- The White Sox traded right-hander Jon Garland to the Los Angeles Angels on Monday for shortstop Orlando Cabrera.

The 28-year-old Garland, an 18-game winner in 2005 and 2006, was 10-13 with a 4.23 ERA in 32 starts last season. He 92-81 with a 4.41 ERA in 246 games, including 223 starts, over eight major league seasons, all with the White Sox.

Garland was acquired by the White Sox from the Cubs on July 29, 1998, for pitcher Matt Karchner.

Cabrera, 33, batted .301 with 35 doubles, eight home runs, 86 RBIs and a career-high 101 runs with the Angels last year. He had a career-high 192 hits.

He won his second Gold Glove and led AL shortstops in fielding percentage (.983). Cabrera, who has also played with Montreal and Boston during his 11-year career, is a career .273 hitter. He was on the 2004 Red Sox team that won the World Series.

Chicago also receives cash as part of the trade.
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ATLANTA -- Tom Glavine won his 300th game with the New York Mets. He plans to get his final win for the Atlanta Braves.

Glavine agreed to an $8 million, one-year contract with the Braves on Sunday, returning full time to the city he always called home even while pitching the last five years in New York.

Negotiations between the 303-game winner and the Braves lasted less than a week after Glavine made it clear he wanted to finish his career in Atlanta and the team worked out room in its budget to sign him.

Glavine pitched for the Braves from 1987-2002, winning 242 games and two NL Cy Young Awards. An afternoon news conference to formally announce the signing was scheduled for Monday at Turner Field.

"We are absolutely thrilled to bring Tom Glavine back to the Braves,'' new general manager Frank Wren said. "We've had an overwhelmingly positive response from the players on our club, our staff and our fans concerning Tom's return. Tom is a proven winner and a future Hall of Famer."

The initial talks were held Wednesday, the Braves made their first offer Friday and the details were hammered out over the weekend, said Glavine's agent, Gregg Clifton.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3118868
 
CHICAGO -- The White Sox traded right-hander Jon Garland to the Los Angeles Angels on Monday for shortstop Orlando Cabrera.
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I'm really steamed about that. Cabrera came off a wonderful year, wins a Gold Glove, and how do the Angels thank him?! "Hey Orlando, great season! Congrats on the Gold Glove! You've really done a lot for the team. Buuut we're gonna send you off to Chicago."

:mad:
 
zioxide said:
lol so much for the yanks trying to get younger. They should have said happy trails to him and made Joba the closer.
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They need Jaba more as a starter then a closer. Who knows he might be a set up man again. Rivera is still the best closer in the game and he deserved a big contract.
 
zephead said:
I'm really steamed about that. Cabrera came off a wonderful year, wins a Gold Glove, and how do the Angels thank him?! "Hey Orlando, great season! Congrats on the Gold Glove! You've really done a lot for the team. Buuut we're gonna send you off to Chicago."

:mad:
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Orlando Cabrera and his career .321 OBP won't be missed.
 
Yankees name Girardi's coaching staff

NEW YORK -- Joe Girardi has plenty of reasons to feel good about his upcoming season with the Yankees, especially with Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera seemingly back in the fold.
As Girardi said, it's always better when you know who you'll be working with. As such, the Yankees officially unveiled their 2008 coaching staff on Tuesday, keeping some members of last season's crew while incorporating some new faces and roles.

Hitting coach Kevin Long and first-base coach Tony Pena will return, while Dave Eiland has been promoted to pitching coach. Rob Thomson becomes the new bench coach, and both third-base coach Bobby Meacham and bullpen coach Mike Harkey -- both members of Girardi's 2006 Marlins' coaching staff -- have joined New York.

"Now that the coaching staff is put together, we can all go to work," Girardi said. "We've already started working on Spring Training and how we'll approach it. It's obviously a lot better when you know everyone that you're going to be working with."

Three members of Girardi's staff worked under Joe Torre in 2007 -- Long, Pena and Thomson, while Eiland traveled with the team in September after his season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ended.
Yankees.com
 
Red Sox Working to Extend Francona's Contract

BOSTON -- Following the signings of Mike Lowell and Curt Schilling, the defending World Series champion Red Sox have the luxury of knowing that both the starting nine and pitching rotation is virtually set for 2008. Perhaps that will give the front office more time to dedicate to negotiations on an extension for manager Terry Francona.

Though Francona has one year left on his existing deal, the manager and the club both have interest in extending the relationship before the 2008 season starts.

"We've been on record before as saying it's certainly one of our goals of the offseason to engage with Tito and his contract," said Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein. "That process is in the early stages, and hopefully will be done with the confidentiality that marked most of the Mike Lowell negotiations. We'll try to do it behind closed doors, but I don't want to give an exact timetable because a lot of it depends on the natural ebb and flow of the rest of the offseason as we engage in free agency and potential trades."

The Red Sox have won the World Series twice in the four years Francona has been the manager. It is conceivable Francona could make his stay in Boston a lengthy one, when you consider the way he meshes with the organization and the players.

"Certainly it's something that's very important to ownership and the front office, and Tito's interested in it as well," Epstein said. "We'll let [the media] know when there's anything to report, but right now everything is just in the preliminary stages."
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Good to see they're going to give Tito an extension. He definitely deserves it, winning 2 WS in 4 years.

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071120&content_id=2305481&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos
 
MacNut said:
NEW YORK -- Joe Girardi has plenty of reasons to feel good about his upcoming season with the Yankees, especially with Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera seemingly back in the fold.
As Girardi said, it's always better when you know who you'll be working with. As such, the Yankees officially unveiled their 2008 coaching staff on Tuesday, keeping some members of last season's crew while incorporating some new faces and roles.

Hitting coach Kevin Long and first-base coach Tony Pena will return, while Dave Eiland has been promoted to pitching coach. Rob Thomson becomes the new bench coach, and both third-base coach Bobby Meacham and bullpen coach Mike Harkey -- both members of Girardi's 2006 Marlins' coaching staff -- have joined New York.

"Now that the coaching staff is put together, we can all go to work," Girardi said. "We've already started working on Spring Training and how we'll approach it. It's obviously a lot better when you know everyone that you're going to be working with."

Three members of Girardi's staff worked under Joe Torre in 2007 -- Long, Pena and Thomson, while Eiland traveled with the team in September after his season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ended.
Yankees.com
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Bobby Meacham?

David Eiland?

Mike Harkey?

What, Aurelio Rodriguez, Dennis Rasmussen, and Cecilio Guante weren't available?
 
Mike Lowell is the ****ing man.

Although there were lots of reports that the Phillies made a four-year offer to Mike Lowell over the weekend, that isn't quite true. They were prepared to make that offer if Lowell had told them he wanted to be a Phillie. But instead, Lowell was so intent on going back to Boston, he called the Phillies and told them it wouldn't be right to even ask for an offer. Just one more example of how one of the classiest humans in baseball operates 24/7.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3121887
 
zephead said:
:D :D I think this just might make up for Cabrera being traded.
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They already had hunter though. He's GMJr.

Honestly, Hunter is not at all the kind of player they want.

They have low OBP hackers coming out of their ears.

Hunter is a career .324 OBP guy.

Does he have skills? Of course, but they don't need more of that kind of player. They need someone like Helton or someone who is more of an OBP guy.

In the last 2 years the Angels have paid big dollars for basically 2 of the same kind of player coming off career years. You can add Steve Finley to that too.

I don't think they will regret it as much as it's simply not going to help them as much as people think.

Kenny Lofton with his career .794 OPS (.001 higher than Torii Hunter's) would be a much better fit. Put him in the leadoff slot, then bat Figgins 2nd, GMJr 3rd, Vlad 4th. Much better.

Just not as flashy, but they probably could have had him for fewer years and fewer dollars.
 
Yet another Mike Hampton setback

The Braves left-hander injured his right hamstring in the first inning of his first start in the Mexican Winter League last week. He left after one inning, and it's uncertain if he'll pitch again this winter.

"We don't know when he'll come back [in winter ball], if at all," Braves general manager Frank Wren said. "There's only four weeks left in the season, and hamstring injuries usually take a while."

Hampton hurt his right hamstring when he came off the mound to make a play near the end of the first inning Thursday. He tried to keep his leg loose and come back for a second inning, but the pain worsened in warm-ups before the inning, and he left the game.

Wren said Hampton called him Friday and told him the bad news, and the GM was informed by trainers that the muscle had "bled out," usually a sign of something more than a mild strain.
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http://www.ajc.com/braves/content/sports/braves/stories/2007/11/26/braves_1127.html

i don't think he pitches for the braves, or anyone else again. his career looks to be over:mad:. too bad, because he could swing a good bat and be someone's dh over in the al.
 
furcalchick said:
i'm still hearing miguel to angels rumors. marlins need to just move right now.
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If the other teams are smart, they'll wait until midseason to bid on Santana. By then the Twins will be more worried about losing him for draft picks. And there hasn't been much talk about which teams he might be willing to sign an extension with. I don't think any team wants to part with good prospects for one season of Santana.
 
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