poor casey mcgee.
in the biggest signing of the off-season: the Marlins signed Aaron Rowand to a minor league deal
consolation prize for not getting Pujols
ha, what i was saying a few days back:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1213-braun-kemp-mvp-20111213,0,2301712.story
Dodgers’ Matt Kemp would win MVP award over Ryan Braun in a new vote
Times survey of 20 writers who submitted ballots with the Milwaukee star winning shows that the Dodgers outfielder would win by a large margin if Braun’s positive test for a banned substance is upheld on appeal...However, an official change isn’t expected.
“poor casey mcgehee”
This was a reaction to his going to Pittsburgh, yes?
Mets took another $40 M loan.
lol—yes, from bad to worse!
dontrelle to the phillies
very sad 2 me
front page of espn.com is a big picture of Prince Fielder but there’s no news, sigh
Alderson: Johan may not be ready in April
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/37196/alderson-mets-need-pitching-safety-net
I wonder what year Ike Davis will come back from his hangnail?
dontrelle to the phillies
― mookieproof, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
LIFTOFF
red sox RELOAD with mark melancon and nick punto
i want to know who won the budding on Yu NOW!
Steven Goldman and Ben Lindbergh of BP are now in the BBWAA btw
Adios, Mat Latos. Padres got Yonder Alonso.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/12/reds-acquire-mat-latos-for-alonso-others.html
Edinson Volquez may also be going to the Padres in the deal. Remember when he was good?
nope!
Rollins to stay w/ the Phillies for 3 more years apparently!
so Mat Latos is now out of the NL West, that is good for the Giants.
still pissed off at my team and their horrible moves this off-season so far. the owners are broke apparently.
yay, Rollins is an essential part of the Phils’ advancing decrepitude!
SD got a haul for Latos. This trade is all in how it plays out.
Yonder Alonso can hit. I’m not sure he will hit for huge power, but he looked like a guy that knows the strikezone and had some composure in the batters box. The guy kind of reminded me a bit of Sean Casey.
I’d think like Harang, Volquez will probably get some benefit from just not having to pitch half their games in GABP. Volquez has pretty bad control, even when he is going good, the guy will burn 100 pitches in 5–6 innings to get it done.
Never saw Grandal or Boxberger play, but they were a 1st and 2nd round pick in the past few years. Grandal is a switchhitter and supposedly pretty good with the glove, but Devin Mesoraco was already ahead of him in the line to get to the Reds. Boxberger was already being talked about to possibly make the club in the bullpen coming out of spring training, so he might be on the Padres this year. Grandal is only in his 2nd year out of the U, so they might have him start at AAA or something next year.
I’ve only seen Latos pitch a couple of times. He was really overpowering on the Reds both times I saw him pitch. I don’t know if the guy is an ace, but he definitely has upside and time on the side for the Reds to find out. You either got to be able to strike them out or have them hit the ball into the dirt to pitch in Cincy’s field—as that place will give up the HR pretty easy, especially when it is hot outside.
i think it’s a really good trade for the reds — latos is a fantastic pitcher, and they traded two prospects who were blocked anyway
just seems like a fair trade all around, except for the part where the padres traded for a top first base prospect last off season
good trade — hope wieland and/or erlin work out for the padres
Cespedes Video II
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15694
dbacks signed jason kubel to a 2 year deal w/ an option, which seems like a terrible move
thanks for the analysis, earl.
huh
so the rangers won the darvish bid
really the Rangers? did not see that one coming
Texas eats Nippon Ham sandwich (stolen from Jason Parks)
well, lets all hope he turns into a disaster.
if he gets $15m a year (which seems likely), the Rangers will essentially have paid about $23-$24m per year over 6 years for this guy? for that to work out, he’d have to be worth about 6 WAR per year. the only pitchers worth that much in 2011 were Sabathia, Halladay, Lee, Kershaw, Verlander, and Haren (though C.J. Wilson was very close). that’s a hell of a projection
yeah, it’s a lot
well, lets all hope he turns into a disaster.
Go Jays!
ha ha! watching the J’s msg board going mental this morning was good for a laugh.
having lived through the matsuzaka posting i’m v. sorry for jays fans
pourquoi?
eh checking msg boards every 5 mins, tons of misinformation and confusion, but sox came out on top and jays didn’t (assuming yall were pro-darvish). it was just a really exciting and happy moment to be a fan. of course then we saw matsuzaka pitch.
yuni -> back with the royals!
also it is being reported that the mets, in a cost-cutting move, are abandoning their rookie-level appalachian league team in kingsport, tennessee. (i can’t imagine that this saves a tremendous amount of money, but whatever.)
the appy league president claims to know nothing of this (which is totally feasible, because it’s the appy league). also, it would drop the number of affiliated minor league clubs to 159 when the bargaining agreement requires 160.
lol at everyone, basically
wow, it must be so agonizing as a Royals fan if Yuni winds up being the starting SS this year. just when they thought he was out...
I’ll be really surprised if the money for Darvish really pays off in quality pitching. I suppose it raises the Rangers rep over seas, but really outside of Hideo Nomo has any of these Japanese pitchers been really that good? Nomo struggled with injuries but he put up a few good seasons.
dice-k was 18–2 or w/e right? i wouldnt put it outside the realm of possibility he could be at least serviceable esp as an innings eater if he can somewht get a hold of his control in the future
eh that season was insanely weird and lucky; also he only pitched 167 innings and could never go deep into games so innings eater is kind of wishful thinking.
taking sides: dicek or lackey
oh god just kill me
this is most likely a somewhat-to-epic overpay—but, on paper, this guy looks even better than Dice-K.
for what it’s worth.
hey mook, the NYT sez it’s the Gulf Coast team the Mets wanna cut.
that is true
it’s not an absurd move baseball-wise — they still have two other short-season teams — but the money being saved is a drop in the bucket
australian baseball league all-star game is now on mlb network live
Was it Dice-K (pre-posting) that one of the BP guys was claiming had some magical never-before-seen pitch?
yeah that was the whole gyroball thing
world 8, australia 5
sydney blue sox dh tyler collins with a key three-run blast
“I suppose it raises the Rangers rep over seas, but really outside of Hideo Nomo has any of these Japanese pitchers been really that good?”
Kazuhiro Sasaki was pretty good, but he was a reliever.
i’m still waiting for that freakishly overpaid Yankees minor leaguer to get his second shot!
@rustindodd Royals believe addition of Betancourt as UTL guy could allow them to carry 8 relievers at times.
brian cashman and the yankees no longer have kei igawa to kick around, as his contract has ended. they also no longer have $46m loooool
career major league era: 6.66
that whole thing is weird — he could’ve become a pretty okay bullpen pitcher, even just as a lefty/lefty guy
i think they honestly hated him, first because his suckiness pointed out their horrible blunder, then because he wouldn’t just quit and go back to japan. i’m surprised they didn’t send him to class a charleston
holy shit—i totally forgot about him!
they could have traded him, right? (if they only agreed to eat a lot of salary) I’m sure a lot of teams would have at least worked the guy out.
@rustindodd Royals believe addition of Betancourt as UTL guy could allow them to carry 8 relievers at times.
UTL guy? He can’t even play his natural position!
Beltran iz a Card.
LoMoMarlins Logan Morrison
Maybe u could hook me up w/ a sweet fedoras 2 disguise me? RT @Kevin_Goldstein: LoMo sure gets a lot of attention 4 a LF w/ a .330 OBP
that was so awes
i was still holding out hope that the Giants would give in and sign Beltran. they give up Wheeler and lose Beltran and gain Cabrerra and Pagan, oh fucking boy.
“Kazuhiro Sasaki was pretty good, but he was a reliever.”
I completely missed that guy. If it is AL and specifically AL West, I probably don’t know the players very well.
LoMoMarlins
Just heard from my boy that Prince to Seattle is a done deal...
LoMoMarlins
Purple Rain & When Doves Cry are going to sound unbelievable this summer under the lights at Century Link Field youtube.com/watch?v=OjLG92…
lol, they are talking about Prince on MLB Network right now. Mitch thinks the Rangers, Larry picked the Dodgers and some guy named Dave picked the Brewers. don’t know who that Dave guy is?
I bet Torrealba is really bummed about his 66 day ban in Venezuelan ball.
With the stadium sitting in the shadows of the Atlantic Ocean, the organization feels it is only natural to display a couple of aquariums. What will make people take notice is where they are located.
Last Friday, two 450-gallon fish tanks were installed inside the wall behind the home-plate wall. They are positioned on the first- and third-base sides, and currently they are not filled with water.
The fish will be protected by shatter-proof glass, and the team has been ensured the fish will be safe.
“The reason this has never been done before, is not that it can’t be done,” Marlins president David Samson said. “It’s because no one thought to do it.”
In the early stages of building the ballpark, team owner Jeffrey Loria insisted to make the stadium mirror Miami.
After batting around ideas, it was decided to install aquariums.
With the stadium sitting in the shadows of the Atlantic Ocean, the organization feels it is only natural to display a couple of miami bass clubs. What will make people take notice is where they are located.
Last Friday, two 450 sq. ft clubs were installed inside the wall behind the home-plate wall. They are positioned on the first- and third-base sides, and currently they are not filled with miami bass dancers.
The clubs will be protected by shatter-proof glass, and the team has been ensured the dancers will be safe.
“The reason this has never been done before, is not that it can’t be done,” Marlins president David Samson said. “It’s because no one thought to do it.”
In the early stages of building the ballpark, team owner Jeffrey Loria insisted to make the stadium mirror Miami.
After batting around ideas, it was decided to install miami bass clubs.
:)
“The reason this has never been done before, is not that it can’t be done,” Marlins president David Samson said. “It’s because no one thought to do it.”
hahah this is such an amazing quote
david samson on signing a free agent:
“The reason this has never been done before, is not that it can’t be done,” Marlins president David Samson said. “It’s because no one thought to do it.”
The first time a foul ball rattles off the aquarium I hope the fish go crazy
the team has been ensured the fish will be safe
crazy—like they panic and escape from their tank and start attacking horrified patrons?
(all 200 of them)
crazy—like they panic and escape from their tank and start attacking horrified patrons?
That works for me.
that aquarium idea is seriously one of the coolest things any MLB team has ever done, Marlins games are going to be so neat on TV
bullpen shark tank—think abt it
I can dig it.
so crazy it just might work
yeah, i kind of like it
put it in the batter’s eye
Sheehan’s 10 predix for ’12:
1. The Marlins won’t get a playoff spot for their money.....
10. The Reds will win the World Series.
keith law interviewing with houston apparently
Greg Spira, sabermetrician and founder of the Internet Baseball Awards, died this week at 44.
Carlos Quentin to the Padres for two prospects: Simon Castro and Pedro Hernandez.
Simon Castro, a 23-year-old right-hander, was ranked as the Padres third best prospect at this time last year by Baseball America. Neither he nor Hernandez, a 22-year-old lefty, made the top ten this year, though.
middle-aged request: mention all teams involved, cuz right now I have no idea who Carlos Quentin is.
dude was (v. briefly) the white sox’s next superstar iirc
dude with good power and decent patience who was #5 in the mvp voting in ’08, good year in ’11, two mediocre years in between. should become a nice, forgettable 40 doubles per year guy in petco.
He probably would have finished higher in ’08 MVP voting if he hadn’t missed around 30 games near the end of the season (temper-related wrist fracture).