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1. Johnny Two Screens Posted: December 08, 2005 at 07:21 PM (#1767945)I'm disappointed; I really hoped the Yankees would make Womack wear an old Tom Gordon jersey around and strut him on the hill to face Manny Ramirez.
If I was the Reds, I would want all of Womack's salary plus a couple million for my trouble.
It doesn't even matter what they're sending back - that's just terrible.
Anyway, I'm sure TVerik meant position players.
The Yanks really do need that extra rosin bag the Reds are sending their way.
New York received infielder Kevin Howard and outfielder Ben Himes in the trade, and will send $900,000 to the Reds to offset part of Womack's $2 million salary next season.
The Reds actually gave up players? And only get $900k back?
OK, Cashman is the GM of the year, just for this transaction.
I would like to say, Womack handled his demotion with very little whining and complaining, publically. For that I tip my hat to him. I will even drive him to the airport if he wishes.
I don't see how Womack will get 2 homers...
Of course, he'll be bound and gagged in the trunk, but you'll do the driving.
Kevin Howard went 296/346/428 last year in AA, has a chance to be an excellent college third base coach somewhere down the line.
Howard has the biggest buzz coming into this year's draft after having a brilliant season in the Arizona Fall League. A fifth-round pick in 2002 out of Miami, Howard won the AFL batting title, hitting .409-3-16 in 88 at-bats. But perhaps his strongest asset was proving himself to be an adequate defender at third base. Howard played third in college, but played primarily second base since turning pro. He's a patient lefthanded hitter with a line-drive stroke, and has shown improved power. Some scouts in the AFL liked him better at third, and Howard could be solid at either spot making him the best overall position player available in the draft. Dan Uggla (Diamondbacks) is another utility player who dramatically upped his stock in the AFL, but Howard's lefthanded bat, which could be valuable off a big league bench, gives him the edge.
Sure, now that Rickey's retired, I'm sure the Surf Dawgs could use a utility guy.
I was going to say Chan Ho Park, but I guess that depends on your definition of "done." :) You could argue that one-and-done is better than a guy hanging around to haunt you for years ...
Anyway, Nick Esasky's contract with Atlanta comes to mind as an even worse outcome, God have mercy on him.
Well, the Reds would have traded a bucket of balls for Womack, but they didn't have any left, what with Milton pitching for them all year. All they had left were players to give up.
That projected SLG looks a little high.
The Reds play in a very hitter friendly park, and ZIPs knows it....you can't expect ZIPs to realize that won't help a hitter as feeble as Womack (well, unless he somehow gets to hit against Milton, that is).
I'm younger than Rickey, though.
Tony Womack. What a waste.
They're not going to start Womack are they?
Sheesh... The only way I see "undisclosed considerations" making any sense is if Dan O'Brien has a scorching case of herpes and medical science can't figure out a way to cure it, only transfer to another host --- and the "future considerations" are Brian Cashman taking on the malady.
This one is, "If this guy gets 1 PA, it's a bad deal."
Pretty much every time Tony steps into the batter's box, this deal gets worse and worse.
I bet one of those teams was the Cubs...
My Reds traded for Tony Womack today. I'll stop at the liquor store on the way home. Time to start that serious drinking problem I've been planning ever since the Eric Milton signing.
More likely, watch Womack win the NL MVP with a .340/.340/.340 line and 60 stolen bases when the Reds somehow win the Wild Card.
...in Boise.
My big fear was seeing Corey Patterson go to NY in exchange for Womack. With Macias gone, you just know Dusty's itching to give 130 PAs to another worthless veteran who "plays" 7 positions and will hit .260/.260/.260.
Giving up Howard and Himes? Maybe those spots will go to guys who'll actually help the big club some day.
In the end, this is a nothing deal - Womak won't be with the Reds past this year, they didn't really give anything up for him, and the money involved shouldn't affect any of their other deals. Unless acquiring Womak keeps them from keeping Aurillia, which is the only way this becomes a bad deal.
As a person who hadn't had a good belly laugh since last week's episode of My Name is Earl, I'm very happy that this deal happened.
I move that this enter into our cultural vernacular:
"I love that scene in 'Speed' on top of the subway where Keanu Reeves totally trades Dennis Hopper for undisclosed considerations."
Free agent Mike Myers told MLB.com that he's agreed to a two-year deal with the Yankees.
"I'm jacked up for it," Myers said. "It's going to be a lot of fun. The Yankees are a team I have wanted to play with for quite a while. I'm glad the deal was able to come to fruition." Hopefully, he's been taking notes while David Ortiz is at the plate. He'll be facing him quite a bit in the future. Dec. 8 - 4:07 pm et
Source: MLB.com
Jeff Harris - S - Mariners
-- MWE
Well to be fair to Guzman his career line is .260/.298/.374 and he does have 3 years at too much money to go and he hit .325/.369/.481 in September last year and it was only 2001 that he looked like he was going to be a really good player...
This Womack deal seems like a different thing, though. It's more of a "catapult disease-ridden corpse over defenders' walls, wait for the besieged to fall ill or die, waltz in, claim the flag, The End" thing.
Bronx Banter likes the deal: "Oh, Glorious Day!"
*wipes brow and wonders about rLr's "problems"*
Free agent Mike Myers told MLB.com that he's agreed to a two-year deal with the Yankees.
Stop trying to rain on our parade, levski.
a) virtually no news could color this Womack Withdrawal.
b) Myers is actually the best lefty option the Yankees have. I'd rather see him in the game than Embree.
That girl has a lot of eyebrow. And I recently watched the E! True Hollywood story of Blossom, so she sprang readily to mind.
b) Myers is actually the best lefty option the Yankees have. I'd rather see him in the game than Embree.
He's likely to be the best left-handed reliever the Yankees have had since Mike Stanton, Version 1. Yes, that is pathetic.
As shooting stars flash swiftly 'cross the skies
So Tony Womack lived, and now he dies.
No longer will he wear the white and blue
From second base, to Torre's bench, to glue.
Goodbye, old horse, your running days are done.
Your visage will not shade the Yankee sun.
Your popping-up no longer earns my ire.
Your whiffs now stoke a poor Ohioan's fire.
Your bushy brows now capture dust
On the flat Midwestern plain
We've put you out to pasture, horse,
You'll never ride again.
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