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1. Bobby Bonilla's Annuity (Matt) Posted: August 28, 2009 at 08:51 PM (#3308025)Not if they have reason to believe that his arm is going to fall off between now and then.
Besides, with the way he's been pitching this season, the Rays already have suitable in-house replacements available for his slot in the starting rotation.
What in the hell happened to turn him into a post-July 31st salary dump candidate?
Some combination of an increasing walk rate, decreasing K rate, the annual DL stint, and a need to clear salary to help sign some of their other players to new deals.
His velocity and K rate are still a bit below where they were before 2009, and Fangraphs' pitch values show his FB as being a negative value pitch this year after being awesome the past few years. I don't know how much that has changed since his DL stint.
Weird timing for the Rays, who are just 3.5 games out of the wild card. Kazmir just had his best start of the year.
Nice pickup for the Angels. Kazmir's due $20M over the next 2 years, plus an option for 2012. They get to drop one of Saunders/Santana from the playoff rotation this year, and they offset the potential offseason departure of Lackey.
Edit: I'm surprised the Red Sox, Rangers, and Tigers all passed on claiming him.
Anyone know anything about Torres and Sweeney? As far as I know, they never made any Top-20 lists of Angels prospects.
That start was against a Jays lineup featuring Wells, Millar, Bautista, McDonald, and Chavez. I would recommend strongly against drawing any conclusions from that start.
14) Alexander Torres, LHP, Grade C+: Overlooked lefty, solid strikeout/grounder combination in the California League.
Sweeney is only mentioned in passing at the end of the 'others' list. RHP.
Nah, you guys had the bad starts against the Lind/Overbay version. That's still not a great lineup, but it only has a couple holes, rather than being mostly holes.
Very, very happy with this.
EDIT: COME ON!
The Angels have money and, from the sound of it, the prospects are nothing special. I'm not an Angels fan, and I have to think that at least part of why the Rays are looking to trade Kazmir is because of health concerns, but I'd be pretty happy if I were them. At worst, they have to eat a contract, which they can afford to do. At best, they just got themselves three years of an excellent starter for a reasonable salary.
Most importantly, I wanted to know if Joel Sherman's reports were worth anything- I hope they are.
Possibly because of his reputation as a guy who works deep into a lot of counts, I have a hard time thinking of Kazmir as an innings eater. Considering that he's averaging 5.8 innings a start, that title might be a bit of a stretch.
dunno... his report is still up, as is Bill Shaikin's at the L.A. Times, but mlb.com says it ain't so...
edited to add the OC Register's two cents
This is the part that surprises me the most. The Red Sox really need another competent starter right now.
Well, the Rangers are probably tight on cash, as their owner is in some financial trouble. For the Tigers, it seems like they're at the limits of their budget.
For the Red Sox? Who knows. Perhaps it's just a matter of not trusting the state of his health.
That's a nice ####.
EDIT- Damn that nanny!
Well, the Rangers are probably tight on cash, as their owner is in some financial trouble. For the Tigers, it seems like they're at the limits of their budget.
For the Red Sox? Who knows. Perhaps it's just a matter of not trusting the state of his health.
Yeah, but was there any chance the Rays just let him go?
Perhaps whatever god is smiting Mets this year didn't get word of the Kazmir trade.
The Rays probably passed him through waivers at the start of the month, which was before his recent string of better performances and improved velocity. I could see the Angels seeing him as healthier now, and having interest that they didn't have 4 weeks ago.
With the amount of smiting the Mets have seen, you've got to assume it's the Big G God. A god (small g) couldn't cause half that damage.
True, I put this on Despair of the Endless.
With the amount of smiting the Mets have seen, you've got to assume it's the Big G God. A god (small g) couldn't cause half that damage.
The last para of Buster's piece reads in full: "Kazmir went to the Rays in a trade with the Mets for Victor Zambrano." Guess his Mets bait didn't work, as this thread has not yet self-immolated.
Since they are pretty much locked into the postseason, I guess their goal is to get Kazmir tuned up enough to be a #3-4 starter in a short series.
EDIT: Wait, I'm wrong on the baseball guy. It is the godawful Rex Hudler.
EDIT: Or, what #42 said hours ago.
In fantasy this year, in a keeper, I've traded away Bedard, Dice, Volstad, Baker, and Volquez because I feared what would be coming next. (Sadly, I didn't or couldn't do the same with my beloved Johan, about whom I nearly make Gleeman look rational.) I wanted out before the bottom fell out. It would take some serious cajones for an MLB team to do the same with the potential for looking like a cheap Finley/Loria level ######### in the public's eye.
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