I've seen everything from Rich Harden, to Jeff Samardzija, to a package of their garbage prospects like Felix Pie and Rich Hill...Originally Posted by CP1708
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You guys are out in Chi town, what is the rumor for Peavy including? What are we giving up, etc etc?
I'm on the fence about the guy. You know if he goes to the Braves he'll dominate like he's used to. You know if he goes to the Cubs, he'll blow out his arm in May.
[h4]Yanks Robinson Cano going to Dodgers?[/h4]http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/sports/moresports/peavy_heading_for_____137538.htm?page=2
There continues to be buzz about Robinson Cano going to the Dodgers, with Russell Martin or Matt Kemp being players of interest for the Yankees. But Yankee officials say it is much more likely Cano will remain their second baseman next year. -- NY Post
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[h4]Twins' Cuddyer on Rockies' radar[/h4]
An intriguing name to watch in any Rockies talks about sending third baseman Garrett Atkins to Minnesota is outfielder Michael Cuddyer, who missed 2 1/2 months last season because of a strained tendon in his left index finger and has fallen into a backup role because of the emergence of young Twins outfielders. The Rockies are looking to add a quality starter in the offseason, and the Twins could offer the likes of Nick Blackburn or Kevin Slowey. But the Rockies also would like to add a right-handed, run-producing hitter in a multiple-player package, which is where Cuddyer, a strong clubhouse presence, would fit. -- Rocky Mountain News
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[h4]Pudge Rodriguez return to Tigers a longshot[/h4]
The Tigers have moved Brandon Inge to third base but are not convinced Dusty Ryan is ready to become their No. 1 catcher in 2009. They may not have the spare pitching it will take to lure Gerald Laird from the Texas Rangers. And they have yet to show interest in signing Jason Varitek as a free agent. Would they consider bringing back Pudge Rodriguez to be their starting catcher for one more year? Not likely. When asked about that possibility during the general managers' meetings this week, Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski said, "I'd have to say he'd be more of a longshot." Rodriguez, who will turn 37 this month, is a free agent. Like Varitek, he is represented by powerful agent Scott Boras. -- Detroit Free Press
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[h4]Yanks wonder if Teixiera can handle Bronx?[/h4]
Is Mark Teixiera, who has played for Texas, Atlanta and Anaheim, ready to handle the pressure that comes along with a nine-figure contract with the Yankees? "I don't see him as a guy who would let the pressure get to him," said one major league executive at the GM meetings that ended here Thursday. "He doesn't live a very public persona. He's a good family guy who does a lot of charitable work, not a night-life guy who is going to get caught up in some scandal. I think he would handle New York just fine." -- NY Daily News
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[h4]Tribune May Retain Half of Cubs[/h4]
Sam Zell's Tribune Co. may end up holding 50% or more of the media company's storied Chicago Cubs baseball franchise as the credit crunch stalled sales talks. In recent weeks, an early plan to sell a 95% stake has fallen to about half as suitors' ability to buy the team and its landmark stadium on Chicago's North Side waned, according to two people involved in the negotiations. On Thursday, bidders were preparing to receive a request to submit new purchase proposals with financing details, those people said. The shift in strategy is a result of the tight credit market. -- Wall Street Journal
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[h4]Jake Peavy headed to Braves or Cubs[/h4]
Jake Peavy is going to be a Brave or Cub in the next few weeks. Padre GM Kevin Towers said yesterday, "The train has left the station." Translation: There is no doubt his ace will be traded. Towers said he had moved far enough along in trade conversations during the just-completed GM meetings to be confident that Peavy will be dealt before the Dec. 8-11 Winter meetings in Las Vegas. The Braves remain the front-runner for Peavy. However, the Cubs are trying to obtain Peavy and re-sign Ryan Dempster. That would enable them to form a dynamic rotation, with that duo plus Rich Harden, Ted Lilly and Carlos Zambrano. -- NY Post
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[h4]do it Frank.
[/h4][h4]Hoffman demands meeting with Padres owner, before signing contract[/h4]
Trevor Hoffman wants to meet with Padres owner John Moores and CEO Sandy Alderson before he and his agent respond directly to the one-year, $4 million offer the Padres made four weeks ago, Hoffman's agent said yesterday. "Trevor would like to talk to them about the direction of the team and whatever his role is," said Hoffman's longtime agent, Rick Thurman. Thurman said he is disappointed the Padres haven't responded to the request, which he said came 12 days ago. -- San Diego Union-Tribune
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[h4]Dodgers' offer to Manny Ramirez might be too short[/h4]
Manny Ramirez's agent made it clear Thursday that the contract the Dodgers offered his client isn't long enough, the first audible indication that efforts to re-sign the free agent outfielder will be a drawn-out process. The Dodgers' deal would guarantee Ramirez $45 million over two years, according to two sources who were granted anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss contract details. One of the two sources said the Dodgers presented agent Scott Boras with a back-loaded deal that would pay Ramirez $15 million in 2009, down from the $20 million he earned this year. Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti said Wednesday that the contract included an option year. -- LA Times
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[h4]Rockies Atkins, A's Street to Indians?[/h4]
If the Indians make a deal with Colorado for third baseman Garrett Atkins, it will cost them a starting pitcher and one of their big-league outfielders. The Indians are one of several teams, including the Tigers, interested in Oakland reliever Huston Street -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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[h4]Andy Pettitte to Rangers?[/h4]
Andy Pettitte has a relationship with Ranger president Nolan Ryan, so there was speculation at the GM meetings that, perhaps, Pettitte could wind up in Texas rather than New York. But a Ranger official said he sees almost no chance of that occurring. -- NY Post
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[h4]Red Sox could be forced to deal Buchholz?[/h4]http://bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view.bg?articleid=1130657&format=text
Eventually, the Red Sox may be in a position where they need to give up one of the young pitchers to land a starting catcher. Texas, it's known, has targeted Clay Buchholz at the top of its offseason shopping list. If the Sox reach a stalemate with free agent Jason Varitek [stats] and need to deal for one of the two young Rangers catchers - Taylor Teagarden or Jarrod Saltalamacchia - they might find themselves faced with some tough decisions. -- Boston Herald
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[h4]Twins eye Dodgers 3B Casey Blake[/h4]
Don't be surprised if the Twins consider free agent Casey Blake, who finished the season with the Dodgers and hit 21 home runs between Los Angeles and Cleveland, for their third-base job. Blake, 35, who is from Iowa and played for the Twins from 2000-02, has 14 career homers and 47 runs batted in against the Twins, and his personality would be a perfect fit. He probably could be had for $12 million for two years. -- Pioneer Press
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[h4]Mets want Halos K-Rod[/h4]
The Mets would be happy to leave the offseason with any of the top three free-agent closers: Francisco Rodriguez, Brian Fuentes or Kerry Wood (with that probably being their order of preference). The teams that clearly are in the closer market are St. Louis, Milwaukee, Arizona, Cleveland and Detroit. A team that hardly is a financial monster, the Reds, stepped out to give Francisco Cordero a four-year, $45.5 million deal last offseason. So it is possible that one of the closer-hungry clubs could make a surprisingly huge deal for a K-Rod or Fuentes. The Cardinals and Brewers would be the most likely to do that. But Met officials departed the GM meetings confident that someone they like from the free-agent field will fall to them in this game of big-money musical chairs. -- NY Post
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[h4]-Backs eye Kennedy and Fontenot[/h4]
There is a plethora of second-tier options, and none seems to stand out too greatly from the rest in the estimation of the Diamondbacks. Free agents such as Ramon Vazquez, Felipe Lopez or Mark Grudzielanek, among others, along with trade candidates such as St. Louis' Adam Kennedy and the Cubs' Mike Fontenot, all could be possibilities. -- Arizona Republic
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[h4]Nats eye Holliday, Fiedler and Teixeira[/h4]
The Nationals put feelers out for almost everything. The team indicated a priority to add a top pitcher. It made contact with Colorado about a trade for Matt Holliday; it made contact with Milwaukee about a trade for Prince Fielder; it made contact with San Diego about a trade for Adrian Gonzalez. And yes, it even made preliminary inquiries about Teixeira, a free agent who finished 2008 with the Angels and certainty will attract contract offers topping $100 million. Even a rich offer to a player with roots to the region -- Teixeira, from Severna Park, is a lifetime .290 hitter with 203 home runs in six seasons -- ensures nothing. The Angels, Yankees and Red Sox reportedly are prepared to enter the bidding frenzy. One industry source described the Teixeira-to-Washington scenario as inconceivable -- no matter the money. Trades, too, would entail obstacles. Colorado's Holliday, 28, and Milwaukee's Fielder, 24, are young enough to command premium prospects in return. Washington has steadily improved its farm system in the last two years, but other suitors competing for such marquee talents will have more major league-ready prospects to bargain with. -- Washington Post
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[h4]Brewers' Cameron drawing trade interest from Yankees[/h4]
When the Milwaukee Brewers exercised their $10 million option for 2009 on centerfielder Mike Cameron on Monday, general manager Doug Melvin said he decided Cameron had "value." That value could come in the form of Cameron patrolling center again for the Brewers next season. It also could come in the form of a trade, should something pique Melvin's interest. The New York Yankees' Brian Cashman expressed interest in Cameron during talks with Melvin at the general managers' meetings that concluded Thursday in Dana Point, Calif. The Yankees are looking for a one-year stopgap in center until prospect Austin Jackson is ready for the majors. "I talked with Brian," Melvin said. "There has been some interest. But, at this point, we're keeping him. Nothing is imminent." Reports out of New York indicated that the Yankees would be willing to part with 24-year-old centerfielder Melky Cabrera in a deal -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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[h4]Pads Greene to O's, Reds, Tigers or Jays[/h4]
The Braves aren't among the clubs interested in trading for Khalil Greene, the Padres shortstop who has drawn trade inquiries from the Orioles, Reds, Tigers and Blue Jays. Towers said he wants pitching for Greene. -- San Diego Union-Tribune
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[h4]Jocketty squashed the rumor of KG to the Reds.
[/h4][h4]Nats could target Dunn?[/h4]
Jim Bowden has connections with another top free agent hitter, Adam Dunn, whose career began in Cincinnati when Bowden was the GM. But that connection is no guarantee that the Nationals will target Dunn, a bankable asset as a power hitter with shortcomings elsewhere. -- Washington Post
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[h4]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article893468.ece]Will Percival be Rays closer in '09?[/url][/h4]
Another question is what the Rays will be able to get out of veteran closer Troy Percival. He is under contract at $4-million for 2009. Percival, 39, led the Rays with 28 saves last season but spent three stints on the disabled list and was left off the roster for each of the three postseason series. Percival had said there was a chance he would need back and knee surgeries in the offseason. Friedman said this week that the right-hander had yet to do so (nor has centerfielder B.J. Upton had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder) but added the team would likely know more on both next week. When asked whether Percival would be the closer next season or if the Rays would go with a committee approach used late in the season, Maddon wasn't sure. -- St. Petersburg Times
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[h4]http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/sports/mets/market_looks_set_to_deliver_relief_to_pe_137548.htm]Mariners J.J. Putz to Mets?[/url][/h4]
If all fails via free agency, the Mets talked to the Mariners about J.J. Putz, and believe Seattle eventually will make him available this offseason. However, Putz makes just $5 million in 2009 with a 2010 club option for $8.6 million or a $1 million buyout. So that puts Putz into the affordable available closer category with Oakland's Huston Street, Florida's Kevin Gregg and perhaps even Jenks in the right package. -- NY Post
[h4]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article893468.ece]Rays undecided on Rocco Baldelli's future[/url][/h4]
As for Rocco Baldelli, with the 27-year-old making an inspirational comeback from a career-threatening mitochondrial disorder, there's still a question of whether he's physically ready for an everyday role, be it at DH or rightfield, if the Rays re-sign him. Baldelli made a lot of his starts as DH and didn't play a full nine innings in right until the World Series. "I think this offseason will tell a lot regarding his health," Maddon said. "You've got to see where he is and how much better he feels by the time spring training runs around. At that point, you can make stronger determinations." -- St. Petersburg Times
[h4]http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-07-cubs-gm-meetings-chicagonov07,0,4191155,print.story]Fukudome is Cubs' mystery man[/url][/h4]
Fukudome's crash has cooled the Cubs' confidence that he will be an everyday player. Right now he is probably a platoon center fielder, meaning the Cubs have to spend more money to protect themselves. That will make GM Jim Hendry's job even more difficult. While Hendry tries to put a positive spin on things, it's obvious the Cubs don't know whether Fukudome is the All-Star player who hit .296 through June or the benched bust who hit .207 from July on. -- Chicago Tribune
[h4]http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-07-white-sox-gm-meetings-chicagonov07,0,5180895.story]White Sox to younger and faster[/url][/h4]
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen hasn't hidden his desire to transition from a big-bopper, slow-footed, age-challenged lineup to one with punch and speed at the top. And his boss, general manager Ken Williams, has no argument with that. The problem is how to achieve that goal and, depending on the trade market, Williams seems intent to do it from within. "As we stand here today," Williams said at the just-concluded annual general managers meetings, "we're going to give [our young players] a chance to join this new core of ours. That's as we stand here today." That means Chris Getz and Jayson Nix will have first shot at second base, second-year major-leaguer Alexei Ramirez at shortstop, Josh Fields at third base and Jerry Owens and Brian Anderson in center field. -- Chicago Tribune
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[h4]http://bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view.bg?articleid=1130650&format=text]Boston wants 2012 All-Star Game at Fenway[/url][/h4]
The Red Sox still have their eye on bringing the 2012 All-Star Game to Fenway Park [map] on its 100th anniversary. Commissioner Bud Selig will make the final decision about the site for the '12 game, but a decision has yet to be made on the 2011 game. Next year's All-Star Game is in St. Louis. The 2010 game is in Anaheim, Calif. In remarks to the media at Fenway Park, Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino said, "That issue is resolved by the commissioner's office, above my pay grade." The Red Sox' effort has been ongoing. -- Boston Herald
[h4]http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/sports/yankees/mariano_to_yankees__si__si_on_cc_137523.htm]Rivera wants Sabathia in Bronx[/url][/h4]
If CC Sabathia signed with the Yankees, Mariano Rivera wouldn't exactly complain. Rivera said last night that he strongly favors having Sabathia join him in pinstripes, though he insisted the organization knows how to handle personnel decisions better than he does. "Definitely. If you ask me personally, definitely I would like to have him," Rivera said at a midtown charity event. "But I'm no one to say what the Yankees should do or not --NY Post
[h4]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603463.html]Nats to wear new uniforms in 2009[/url][/h4]
Manager Manny Acta showed up at the downtown ESPN Zone yesterday for an event designed to showcase the Washington Nationals' new uniforms. The Nationals will have an alternate blue jersey -- detailed with a stars-and-stripes pattern -- in 2009, along with a classic road gray uniform with a red "Washington" scripted across the chest. The home white uniforms will remain virtually the same. -- Washington Post
somewhere, you know who is fapping.
things 'bout to heat up next week.
If that were to happen, Holiday and Pujols would be such a problem.
Originally Posted by CP1708
And thank you Billie Beane.
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wildKYcat didn't break the Holliday trade and instead offers us these news bits
What about Warrior fans?!Originally Posted by wildKYcat
Originally Posted by Stringer Bell 32
wildKYcat didn't break the Holliday trade and instead offers us these news bits
you know how those Oakland (Golden State Warrior) fans are...
no offense to you Paul.
and it also saddens me about Holiday...i thought we had him.
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