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MLB Hotstove 08

Wow, Hank is just as big of a douchebag as his father.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The New York Yankees are still discussing whether to pursue a trade for Minnesota Twins ace Johan Santana, and senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner would like to make a deal.

"Nothing is really decided at this point," Steinbrenner said Friday night outside Legends Field at the team's spring training complex. "I'm still leaning towards doing it. There's others leaning not to do it. There are some others that are leaning to do it also. Disagreements within the organization. Nothing major, but just different opinions. I've changed my opinion a couple times."

Right-hander Phil Hughes and center fielder Melky Cabrera would likely be part of a three-player package needed to obtain Santana, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who can become a free agent after this season.

The Yankees made an offer to Minnesota for Santana earlier this offseason, then said they had pulled out of trade talks.

Steinbrenner said ultimately the final decision will made by ownership, but the opinion of general manager Brian Cashman is important.

"I always told him, 'I'm going to make the final decisions because when you're the owner you should,'" Steinbrenner said. "He is the general manager, and he has the right to talk me out of it and he has talked me out of some things."

Steinbrenner said he has no problem going into the 2008 season with a rotation that doesn't include Santana, but features promising youngsters Hughes and Joba Chamberlain.

"I'm very happy with our young pitchers," he said.

Steinbrenner reiterated that he has no plans to bring back Roger Clemens in 2008. Steinbrenner does intend to watch Clemens' interview on CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

"I guess everybody is going to find out a lot," Steinbrenner said.

Clemens said former trainer Brian McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12, according to the first excerpts released from the pitcher's interview with the TV program.

McNamee said in the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball that he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while with the Toronto Blue Jays, and with steroids and human growth hormone in 2000 and 2001 while with the Yankees.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/01/04/yankees.santana.ap/index.html

"I always told [Cashman], 'I'm going to make the final decisions because when you're the owner you should,'" Steinbrenner said.

What the **** does he even have a GM for then?
 
He's just going for headlines, kinda like what Schilling does.;)
 
Not good news for you Selig haters.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3201154
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Bud Selig was given a three-year extension as baseball commissioner through the 2012 season.

Retirement will have to wait now that 73-year-old Bud Selig has committed to another three years as baseball's commissioner.
The unanimous decision made at Thursday's owners' meeting came two days after Selig and union head Donald Fehr testified before a congressional committee that both criticized baseball for its steroids problem and praised it for strides made the past two years.

Selig will become baseball's second-longest-serving leader behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who was the first commissioner from 1920-44. Selig had said repeatedly since December 2006 that he intended to retire after the 2009 season, but many in baseball didn't believe him.
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A longtime baseball fan is suing the New York Yankees over some players' reported use of performance-enhancing drugs, saying he wants repayment for $221 in tickets and a public response from his once-beloved team.

"I look at it almost as consumer fraud," said Matthew Mitchell, 30, a Brooklyn resident who said he went to his first game at Yankee Stadium in 1984. "If I'm going to watch a baseball game, then I expect it to be the real thing."

The Yankees declined to comment.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322415,00.html
 
Wanna bet Fehr gets an extension too.:rolleyes:

And one more for now,
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane was surprised when Miguel Tejada was mentioned in the Mitchell Report but has no regrets about acquiring the star shortstop.

The chairman and ranking minority member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Tejada, the 2002 AL MVP, made false statements to federal authorities.

"You can't look back," McLane said Wednesday during a break at the major league owners' meetings. "You have to move forward."

McLane said Astros general manager Ed Wade had spoken briefly to Tejada's agent but has not talked to the player, whose brother died Tuesday in a motorcycle accident in the Dominican Republic.

"We're going to wait until we know more facts and see really what the issues are and what needs to be done," McLane said.
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How did he not suspect Tejada was on the list, rumors where everywhere.
 
why do the owners keep extending bud? oh wait, he's one of them...not to mention an ex-car salesman.

i thought commissioners were supposed to be more of a bridge between the owners and players. something tells me this isn't good news.

but good news, less than four weeks from pitchers and catchers report!!!
 
furcalchick said:
but good news, less than four weeks from pitchers and catchers report!!!
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That is always good news.:cool:

The commishes job is to do the owners bidding. He doesn't have to be nice to the players at all.

Following are the Spring Training workout dates, subject to change, both for pitchers and catchers and for each full squad of the 30 Major League Clubs:
American League
Club Pitchers/Catchers
First Workout Full Squad's
First Workout
BAL Feb. 14 Feb. 19
BOS Feb. 16 Feb. 22
CWS Feb. 16 Feb. 21
CLE Feb. 16 Feb. 21
DET Feb. 15 Feb. 20
KC Feb. 14 Feb. 19
LAA Feb. 15 Feb. 20
MIN Feb. 18 Feb. 23
NYY Feb. 15 Feb. 20
OAK Feb. 14 Feb. 21
SEA Feb. 14 Feb. 20
TB Feb. 15 Feb. 20
TEX Feb. 15 Feb. 20
TOR Feb. 16 Feb. 21
National League
Club Pitchers/Catchers
First Workout Full Squad's
First Workout
ARI Feb. 16 Feb. 21
ATL Feb. 15 Feb. 20
CHI Feb. 14 Feb. 19
CIN Feb. 17 Feb. 20
COL Feb. 16 Feb. 23
FLA Feb. 18 Feb. 21
HOU Feb. 14 Feb. 19
LA Feb. 15 Feb. 20
MIL Feb. 17 Feb. 23
NYM Feb. 16 Feb. 20
PHI Feb. 14 Feb. 19
PIT Feb. 15 Feb. 20
STL Feb. 15 Feb. 19
SD Feb. 15 Feb. 20
SF Feb. 14 Feb. 19
WSH Feb. 17 Feb. 22
 
IJ Reilly said:
That certainly was not the way the job was conceived when it was created, but it is the way Selig runs the office.
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That is also why the owners like him so much. Altho he should be thrown under the bus for the steroid issue he will come out smelling like roses.
 
I am STILL hoping the Yankees refrain from trading for Santana. . . but I'm afraid they will and screw themselves for years to come.
 
Naimfan said:
I am STILL hoping the Yankees refrain from trading for Santana. . . but I'm afraid they will and screw themselves for years to come.
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I don't really see how trading away a prospect pitcher like Hughes and a couple of position players for the guy who will be the ace of their staff would be screwing themselves for years to come.

The Yankees don't really have a proven ace pitcher. They need someone to counter Beckett.

Of course the smart thing to do would be to just stay engaged in trade talks enough to stall the Twins so they still have Santana when the season starts, and then you will probably be able to get him for less at the trade deadline. If not, then he possibly becomes a free agent and then it wouldn't cost you any players.

NEW YORK -- The Yankees did finish first in something last year -- spending.

While their streak of AL East titles ended at nine, the Yankees wound up with a record payroll of $218.3 million.

The World Series champion Boston Red Sox were a distant second at $155.4 million, according to information received by clubs from the commissioner's office. The Los Angeles Dodgers were third at $125.6 million, followed by the New York Mets ($120.9 million), Chicago Cubs ($115.9 million), Seattle ($114.4 million), Los Angeles Angels ($111 million), Philadelphia ($101.8 million), San Francisco ($101.5 million) and the Chicago White Sox ($100.2 million).
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ESPN

$65 million more than the next closest team yet they couldn't afford to buy decent bug spray for Joba... lolz
 
Bug spray attracted the bugs if you remember.;)

I don't think any of the 3 biding teams are going to pay the high price for Santana until either July or when he becomes a free agent.
 
I think the Yankees' payroll is going to be huge again next year, but then IIRC a lot of the bloat starts falling off--I think Giambi, Pavano, Abreu, and Mussina's contracts all expire.

Trading two top pitching prospects, who have actually shown something in the bigs, plus position players, for one stud pitcher who is on the way down is not, IMO, a good strategy.
 
This came out a couple of days ago. Surprised that nobody's mentioned it already:

LOS ANGELES -- Don Mattingly, named by the Dodgers as hitting coach two months ago and the presumed eventual replacement for new manager Joe Torre, stepped aside on Tuesday for family reasons and was replaced by Triple-A hitting coach Mike Easler.

Mattingly will remain in the organization as a special assignment coach, but requested the change so he could spend more time at home in Evansville, Ind. He also requested that further details of his situation not be released. Mattingly took the Dodgers job after losing out to Joe Girardi for the Yankees' manager job that Torre formerly held.

"I'm very grateful that the Dodgers have allowed me to take care of these family matters and I hope that everyone can respect our privacy during this time," Mattingly said in a released statement. "I truly appreciate the support of all Dodger fans since joining the organization and I look forward to helping the team win in 2008 and beyond."

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http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/n...ent_id=2353013&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la
 
I heard about that, Hope everything is ok in the family.

The Yankees are in talks with Cano on a 4 year deal.
The New York Yankees and second baseman Robinson Cano have reached a preliminary agreement on a deal that could be worth as much as $56 million over six years, according to reports in the New York Times and the Newark Star-Ledger.

The deal will be finalized when Cano, 25, passes his physical. The contract specifics vary slightly in the reports. According to The Times, Cano will earn $28 million for the 2008 through 2011 seasons, and he will get $2 million more should the Yankees decline the 2012 option.

Cano would earn about $27 million in 2012 and 2013, if the Yankees pick up the options. Cano would be eligible for free agency after 2011 without the option years.

The Star-Ledger reports that the contract is for a guaranteed $30 milllion for four seasons, and worth up to $56 million if the Yankees exercise the options for 2012 and 2013.

Cano joined the Yankees early in the 2005 season and batted .297 with 14 homers and 62 RBIs, finishing second to Oakland Athletics reliever Huston Street in voting for AL Rookie of the Year.

Cano was an All-Star the following season, when he was third in the AL with a .342 average. He struggled early last year -- his batting average was .234 on May 17 -- but wound up batting .306 with 19 homers and 97 RBIs.

After making $490,800 last season, Cano asked for $4.55 million in arbitration and was offered $3.2 million.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3215631
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four articles of news (i hate this time of year, right before spring training, there's like nothing).

first, lo duca is rehabbing from knee surgery, but will be ready for the new nationals ballpark opening on march 30. you can see the construction of it here.

second, santana will probably be traded within the week.

third, more steroid scandal. clemens says stats prove he's clean and knoblauch's hearing.

and finally, no more hall of fame games after this year. padres and cubs will play the last one on june 16.

just two more weeks of nothing left until baseball finally comes back.
 
The Mets are probably the best team for him, they need pitching and have the prospects to get him. The Yankees and Red Sox were just in it to compete with each other.
 
aloofman said:
I think SI.com mentioned that Mattingly had separated from his wife, so it's apparently not an issue with anyone's health or anything.
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Still sucks tho, Mattingly is my favorite player ever.

Hope I get to see him in person in a few weeks at The Sun.
 
The Mets have 72 hours to make a deal with Santana.
The New York Mets have agreed to a trade for two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana, giving up four prospects to acquire the left-handed ace of the Minnesota Twins, according to two high-ranking Twins officials with knowledge of the talks and a person close to Santana.
The deal is pending the Mets and Santana reaching agreement on a six- or seven-year contract extension and that Santana passes a physical; they have been granted a 48 to-72-hour window to do so. Santana has a no-trade clause that he will waive if agreement is reached on a contract extension.

The Mets paid a high price in prospects to land Santana, agreeing to send the Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-01-29-twins-mets-santana_N.htm
 
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