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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, November 23, 2009Davidoff: Ranking the free agentsNewsday’s Ken Davidoff predicts the contracts that this offseason’s free agents will get. To very quickly summarize just the destinations: Holliday, STL; Figgins, LAA; Cameron, CHC; Pettitte, NYY; Scutaro, BOS; Damon, LAA; Beltre, STL; Bay, BOS; Polanco, WAS; Harden, TEX; Winn, ATL; Lackey, NYM; Byrd, NYM; Pineiro, ARI; Tejada, SEA; Marquis, MIL; DeRosa, PHI; F. Lopez, LAD; Glaus, BOS; Wolf, WAS; O. Hudson, MIL; B. Molina, NYM; Garland, BAL; R. Johnson, retirement; D. Davis, MIL; Delgado, NYM; H. Matsui, NYY; Giambi, SF; B. Wagner, BOS; P. Martinez, PHI For some reason, this reprinting (Newsday is now a limited-access site...) leaves off a few of the original predictions. For posterity, they were: O. Cabrera, MIN ($3.5M/1 year); Branyan, TEX ($6.5M/1); Adam LaRoche, ATL ($14M/2); Nady, KC ($2M/1); Pavano, MIN ($12M/2); Sheffield, PHI ($.6M/1) The District Attorney
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Figgins, LAA -- no
Cameron, CHC -- plausible but only if we can trade Bradley
Pettitte, NYY -- sure, doubt he'd sign anywhere else
Scutaro, BOS -- makes sense
Damon, LAA -- definitely not if they sign Figgins and I still guess no. I'd say NYY or Mets are his most likely destinations
Beltre, STL -- that's interesting, I like it
Bay, BOS -- likely
Polanco, WAS -- do we care?
Harden, TEX -- plausible
Winn, ATL -- the Garrett Anderson Memorial signing
Lackey, NYM -- plausible
Byrd, NYM -- who cares?
Pineiro, ARI -- why? really, I can't think of a reason
Tejada, SEA -- who cares?
Marquis, MIL -- did they learn nothing from Suppan?
DeRosa, PHI -- possible but I lean no
F. Lopez, LAD -- I'd guess no
Glaus, BOS -- why? they've already got Lowell
Wolf, WAS -- I doubt it. He can sign with a better team than that. Nats would need to put big money/years on the line
O. Hudson, MIL -- interesting
B. Molina, NYM -- plausible but don't think they can afford it
Garland, BAL -- OK
R. Johnson, retirement -- plausible
D. Davis, MIL -- Where did Milw get all this money? Only if they don't sign Marquis
Delgado, NYM -- Only if he can't get a guaranteed contract elsewhere
H. Matsui, NYY -- no but possible
Giambi, SF -- I'd guess retirement after a bad spring
B. Wagner, BOS -- OK
P. Martinez, PHI -- OK
O. Cabrera, MIN ($3.5M/1 year) -- no way they traded for Hardy
Branyan, TEX ($6.5M/1) -- plausible destination, no way he gets that much money
Adam LaRoche, ATL ($14M/2) -- OK
Nady, KC ($2M/1) -- No way. He can get that money on a good team. Mets are a good bet.
Pavano, MIN ($12M/2) -- OK
Sheffield, PHI ($.6M/1) -- seriously doubt he ends up in the NL ... retirement is probably most likely
They would prefer to keep DH open anyway, so Posada and A-Rod can gets days off from the field but still be in the lineup, though it's not implausible that they'll bring back Matsui. The thing is, I don't see any way they leave LF vacant.
Not that I know all that much about the Angels, but they've already got Weaver, Saunders, Santana, and Kazmir under contract for next season, as well as a decent assortment of options for teh 5th spot in the rotation. I can't really see them as "needing" Lackey, especially given what he's likely to cost.
If I'm the Angels, I'm not going to put too much faith and credit in Santana or Kazmir.
If the choice is between bringing back Figgins or bringing back Lackey, Lackey's price would have to be really, really high before I bring back Figgins.
I can't see how LAA is going to make a move that completely buries a cost-effective Brandon Wood - unless they think they have a deal worked out that swaps him for young pitching - and doesn't address their #5 SP needs after Lackey's departure.
If I were the Phillies I'd offer Kyle Kendrick for Wood
If I were the Angels of Many Places I'd offer Wood for JA Happ
If the Phils had a JA Kendrick or Kyle Happ, maybe something could get done.
I'd agree with this unless the Angels have a move for Halliday (or another ace) that costs them at least one of their infielders. The Angels had too many infielders last year and that was before Wood ran out of options, there's no reason to spend big money for one. Figgins, without another move, would be a really bad signing for the Angels. Damon would be a terrible signing without an absolute steal of a trade that predicated the deal.
Likewise, Figgins for 3/21 seems way low. Even the Orioles could justify a move at a slightly better price than that.
That aside- have the Angels actually said they can't sign Figgins and Lackey- I hadn't seen that.
Hey now, a little respect for the Grabow signing, eh? The Cubs got out in front of the crowd and snapped up their guy, and they should get every bit of credit for the decision that is their due...
I mean other than re-signings.
Moreno made comments to that affect last week.
linky
Of course, Moreno could be lying.
On Grabow and his slightly ridiculous contract, there's this funny comment by a poster over at Fangraphs:
I'd take him as a 4th OF for the Twins....taking over for the 300 ABs that Carlos Gomez would have otherwise gotten. I can't envision a starting job that makes sense for him anywhere.
EDIT: three OF spots, of course.
Let's not forget Dallas McPherson to the A's! Or Jorge Campillo and Brad Thompson to the Royals.
EDIT: three OF spots, of course.
I have no idea, but hopefully he'll hit well enough when he does play there that it won't kill them. If Span goes down and they need defense in CF, they can bring up Pridie or someone else. I mostly would want Winn to backup Young, give them a decent hitter as depth in the OF for when one of Span/Young/Cuddyer/Morneau/Kubel get injured, and to be a pinch hitter for Punto, etc. If he can play acceptably in CF, its a bonus. I (seemingly perenially) believe the Twins need a backup outfielder/pinch hitter, and they aren't going to find one who can definitely play CF well and hit well, so Winn is about as good as I can imagine....someone who could conceivably do both.
Thanks. This made me chuckle.
Don't see it if Holliday is re-signed. They'd probably go cheap (Freese) at 3B if they have Holliday for the middle of the lineup. Pujols' next contract is close and already casting a shadow over the team payroll.
Hater.
Going with Gomez instead of Cameron, Escobar instead of Hardy and Lucroy or other cheap C combination instead of Kendall will clear a significant amount of money. Now, some of that is going to Fielder and arby increases, but the Brewers do have some money to spend.
I don't see the rationale for Hudson for the Crew. If they want a good UI, they can bring back Counsell unless he gets a multiyear contract elsewhere.
I agree. They need pitching more than anything, so dropping a bundle on more MI when Weeks isn't terrible makes no sense.
I wouldn't advocate signing him, but he's had an OPS+ at 100 or above in every season but two since 2002. Of course, this comes with two caveats - one, one of those two subpar seasons was 2009, and, two, when his OPS+ has been above average, it's usually been from 100 - 110, but his below average seasons have been at 84 (2006) and 75 (last season).
In conclusion, if you're looking for a right-handed power hitter, you should probably try to get someone who can hit more than 2 home runs in 597 PAs.
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