For non-Met/Yankee news... Lawl. Not Timmy! Angels resign Abreu to a 2 year/$19 million deal. Akinori Iwamuri is a Pirate. The Rays traded him for Jesse Chavez, a young righty. According to Bill Madden of The NY Daily News, the Royals have agreed to send the versatile Mark Teahen to the White Sox in exchange for Chris Getz and Josh Fields According to Juan C. Rodriguez of The Sun Sentinel, the Red Sox have acquired Jeremy Hermida from the Marlins in exchange for minor league lefthanded pitchers Hunter Jones and Jose Alvarez.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i2yYTUUlBngeKP3tR9GU6-u3THawD9BQKSKO0 Carlos Gomez for JJ Hardy. Have to like the trade for the Twins, considering Hardy has actually done something in the majors.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi...f-Michael-Jackson-is-up-with-S?urn=mlb,200803 Sammy Sosa is now a white man
Lincecum driving around baked; Sosa looking like a corpse. It's shaping up to be quite an interesting off season.
Painstakingly stolen from mlbtraderumors.com, the 2010 MLB Elias Rankings... 2010 MLB free agents - MLBTR's up-to-date list is below. These are players who are eligible for free agency after the 2009 season. The player's 2010 age is in parentheses and Scott Boras clients are bolded. I've included projected Type A or B status. If you have any corrections or omissions, please contact us. Code: Updated 11-9-09 [B][U]Catchers[/U][/B] Eliezer Alfonzo (31) Brad Ausmus (41) Paul Bako (38) Rod Barajas (34) - Type B Josh Bard (32) Michael Barrett (33) Henry Blanco (38) Ramon Castro (34) Chris Coste (37) Sal Fasano (38) Toby Hall (34) Michel Hernandez (31) Ramon Hernandez (34) - $8.5MM club option with a $1MM buyout - Type B Jason Kendall (36) - Type B Jason LaRue (36) Chad Moeller (35) Bengie Molina (35) - Type A Jose Molina (35) Miguel Olivo (31) - Type B Mike Redmond (39) [B]Ivan Rodriguez (38) - Type B[/B] Brian Schneider (33) Yorvit Torrealba (31) - Type B Matt Treanor (34) Javier Valentin (34) [B]Jason Varitek (38) - $5MM club/$3MM player option plus incentives - Type B[/B] Vance Wilson (37) Gregg Zaun (39) - $2MM club option with a $500K buyout; Zaun can void option - Type B [U][B]First basemen[/B][/U] Rich Aurilia (38) Jeff Bailey (31) Wilson Betemit (28) Hank Blalock (29) Russell Branyan (34) Miguel Cairo (36) Frank Catalanotto (36) Tony Clark (38) Carlos Delgado (38) - Type B Nomar Garciaparra (36) Ross Gload (34) Eric Hinske (32) Nick Johnson (31) - Type B Adam LaRoche (30) - Type B Doug Mientkiewicz (36) Kevin Millar (38) Fernando Tatis (35) - Type B Chad Tracy (30) Daryle Ward (35) Dmitri Young (36) [U][B]Second basemen[/B][/U] Ronnie Belliard (35) - Type B Jamey Carroll (36) [B]Alex Cora (34)[/B] Craig Counsell (39) Mark DeRosa (35) - Type B Nick Green (31) Jerry Hairston Jr. (34) Orlando Hudson (32) - Type A Adam Kennedy (34) [B]Felipe Lopez (30) - Type B[/B] Mark Loretta (38) Pablo Ozuna (35) Placido Polanco (34) - Type A Luis Rodriguez (30) Juan Uribe (31) [U][B]Shortstops[/B][/U] Orlando Cabrera (35) - Type A, can't be offered arbitration Juan Castro (38) [B]Alex Cora (34)[/B] Craig Counsell (39) Bobby Crosby (30) Adam Everett (33) Chris Gomez (39) Alex Gonzalez (32) Nick Green (31) Khalil Greene (30) Jerry Hairston Jr. (34) John McDonald (35) Luis Rodriguez (30) Marco Scutaro (34) - Type A Miguel Tejada (36) - Type A Omar Vizquel (43) Jack Wilson (32) - $8.4MM club option with a $600K buyout [U][B]Third basemen[/B][/U] Rich Aurilia (38) Brian Barden (29) [B]Adrian Beltre (31) - Type B[/B] Wilson Betemit (28) Aaron Boone (37) Craig Counsell (39) [B]Joe Crede (32)[/B] Bobby Crosby (30) Mark DeRosa (35) - Type B Pedro Feliz (35) Chone Figgins (32) - Type A Nomar Garciaparra (36) Troy Glaus (33) - Type B Nick Green (31) Adam Kennedy (34) Mike Lamb (34) Mark Loretta (38) Melvin Mora (38) - Type A Pablo Ozuna (35) Robb Quinlan (33) Miguel Tejada (36) - Type A Juan Uribe (31) [U][B]Left fielders[/B][/U] [B]Garret Anderson (38) - Type B[/B] Marlon Anderson (36) Jason Bay (31) - Type A Emil Brown (35) Marlon Byrd (32) - Type B Carl Crawford (28) - $10MM club option with a $1.25MM buyout - Type B [B]Johnny Damon (36) - Type A[/B] David Dellucci (36) Cliff Floyd (37) Joey Gathright (28) [B]Matt Holliday (30) - Type A[/B] Reed Johnson (33) Greg Norton (37) Wily Mo Pena (28) [B]Manny Ramirez (38) - $20MM player option - Type A[/B] Dave Roberts (38) Gary Sheffield (41) Fernando Tatis (35) - Type B Marcus Thames (33) Randy Winn (36) - Type B [U][B]Center fielders[/B][/U] [B]Rick Ankiel (30)[/B] Rocco Baldelli (28) Marlon Byrd (32) - Type B Mike Cameron (37) - Type B Endy Chavez (32) Coco Crisp (30) Darin Erstad (36) Jeff Fiorentino (27) Ryan Freel (34) Joey Gathright (28) Jerry Hairston Jr. (34) Reed Johnson (33) [B]Andruw Jones (33)[/B] Corey Patterson (30) Scott Podsednik (34) DeWayne Wise (32) [U][B]Right fielders[/B][/U] Jermaine Dye (36) - Type A Brian Giles (39) - Type B Vladimir Guerrero (35) - Type B Joey Gathright (28) Eric Hinske (32) Geoff Jenkins (35) Austin Kearns (30) Jason Michaels (34) [B]Xavier Nady (31) - Type B[/B] Randy Winn (36) - Type B [U][B]Designated hitters[/B][/U] Hank Blalock (29) Jason Giambi (39) Ken Griffey Jr. (40) Vladimir Guerrero (35) - Type A Aubrey Huff (33) Hideki Matsui (36) Gary Sheffield (41) Matt Stairs (42) Mike Sweeney (36) Jim Thome (39) [U][B]Starting pitchers[/B][/U] Brandon Backe (32) Cha Seung Baek (30) Miguel Batista (39) Erik Bedard (31) - Type B Kris Benson (34) Paul Byrd (39) Daniel Cabrera (29) Chris Capuano (31) Aroldis Chapman (22) Bartolo Colon (37) Jose Contreras (38) Doug Davis (34) - Type B Justin Duchscherer (32) - Type B Adam Eaton (32) Shawn Estes (37) Josh Fogg (33) Jon Garland (30) - Type B Tom Glavine (44) Mike Hampton (37) Rich Harden (28) - Type B Mark Hendrickson (36) Livan Hernandez (35) Rich Hill (30) Shawn Hill (29) Tim Hudson (34) - $12MM mutual option with a $1MM buyout Jason Jennings (31) Jason Johnson (36) Randy Johnson (46) - Type B John Lackey (31) - Type A Braden Looper (35) - $6.5MM mutual option with possible buyout - Type B [B]Rodrigo Lopez (34)[/B] Noah Lowry (29) Jason Marquis (31) - Type B Pedro Martinez (38) Eric Milton (34) Brett Myers (29) Vicente Padilla (32) - Type B Carl Pavano (34) - Type B Brad Penny (32) Odalis Perez (33) Andy Pettitte (38) - Type B Joel Pineiro (31) - Type B Sidney Ponson (33) Mark Prior (28) Horacio Ramirez (30) Jason Schmidt (37) Ben Sheets (31) John Smoltz (43) Brad Thompson (28) Brett Tomko (37) [B]Jarrod Washburn (35)[/B] Todd Wellemeyer (31) Kip Wells (33) Randy Wolf (33) - Type A [U][B]Closers[/B][/U] Mike Gonzalez (32) - Type A Kevin Gregg (32) - Type A Fernando Rodney (33) - Type B Rafael Soriano (30) - Type A Jose Valverde (32) - Type A Billy Wagner (38) - $8MM club option with a $1MM buyout (Red Sox agreed not to exercise) - Type A [U][B]Right-handed relievers[/B][/U] Luis Ayala (32) Danys Baez (32) Joaquin Benoit (32) Rafael Betancourt (35) - $5.4MM club option - Type A Chad Bradford (35) Doug Brocail (43) - Type B Kiko Calero (35) - Type B Buddy Carlyle (32) Chad Cordero (28) Elmer Dessens (38) R.A. Dickey (35) Brendan Donnelly (38) Octavio Dotel (36) - Type A Kelvim Escobar (33) [B]Eric Gagne (34)[/B] Geoff Geary (33) Dan Giese (33) Edgar Gonzalez (27) Tom Gordon (42) Jason Grilli (33) LaTroy Hawkins (37) - Type A Matt Herges (40) Bob Howry (36) - Type B Jason Isringhausen (37) Jorge Julio (31) Masahide Kobayashi (36) Shane Loux (30) Brandon Lyon (30) - Type B Gary Majewski (30) Guillermo Mota (36) - Type B Joe Nelson (35) Chan Ho Park (37) - Type B Tomo Ohka (34) Tony Pena Jr. (29) Joel Peralta (34) Troy Percival (40) J.J. Putz (33) Juan Rincon (31) Takashi Saito (40) Duaner Sanchez (30) Rudy Seanez (41) Justin Speier (36) Russ Springer (41) - Type B Julian Tavarez (37) Brad Thompson (28) Luis Vizcaino (35) David Weathers (40) - Type B Jeff Weaver (33) Jamey Wright (35) Yasuhiko Yabuta (37) Tyler Yates (32) [U][B]Left-handed relievers[/B][/U] Joe Beimel (32) - Type B Bruce Chen (33) Alan Embree (40) Scott Eyre (38) - Type B Casey Fossum (32) John Grabow (31) - Type A Eddie Guardado (39) Mark Hendrickson (36) Ron Mahay (39) Will Ohman (31) - Type B Darren Oliver (39) - Type A Horacio Ramirez (30) Glendon Rusch (35) [B]Scott Schoeneweis (36)[/B] Brian Shouse (41) - $1.9MM club option with a $200K buyout - Type B Ken Takahashi (41) Jack Taschner (32) [B]Ron Villone (40)[/B] Jamie Walker (38)
Tim Wakefield signs 2 year deal with the Boston Red Sox 1:48pm: Bradford confirmed in an email that the deal has been finalized. 1:28pm: WEEI.com's Rob Bradford says the new deal will guarantee Wakefield $5MM ($3.5MM in 2010, $1.5MM in 2011), with incentives that could push the total value of the deal up to $7MM.
According to WEEI.com's Rob Bradford, the Red Sox will not pick up Jason Varitek's $5MM option for 2010. Varitek now has five days to decide on the $3MM player option portion of the contract. He could also earn another $2MM in incentives based on games started next season. The 37-year-old team captain hit just .209/.313/.390 in 425 plate appearances in 2009, losing his starting catcher's job to Victor Martinez late in the season and in the playoffs.
Joe Capozzi of the Miami Herald writes that there are "indications" that Dan Uggla will be traded by next month's winter meetings. The 29-year-old pounds out 30+ homer seasons like they're going out of style, but he made $5.35MM in just his first year of arbitration in 2009. He'll be expensive, but he is a great youngish bat.
No surprise here, though now it's official: The Red Sox have exercised their $7.1MM option for Victor Martinez according to Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe. This was about as much of a no-brainer as they come. The 30-year-old Martinez hit .303/.381/.480 this season, .336/.405/.507 after coming to Boston at the trade deadline. He split his time in the field almost equally between catcher and first base, and FanGraphs values V-Mart's 2009 production at $21.9MM.
Ken Griffey Jr agreed to a 1-year deal with the Seattle Mariners, which will undoubtedly be his final season.
3:47pm: Varitek exercised his option to return to the Red Sox, writes Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe. Waste of $3m bucks.
Holliday and Bay? That makes absolute no sense. In fact, on the Fan this morning, they said that supposedly Adam Wainwright was on a talkshow and said that Holliday wants to remain in St. Louis. Time will tell though.
I want them both because the Red Sox lacked power, and they have it, that's all. I know it's not ideal/smart/gonna happen, but fuck it.
You know what doesn't make sense? Rubbing buttersticks on your nipples. Did it make sense for the Yankees to bring in baseball's best player (a shortstop) when Jeter wasn't giving up the spot? If you can manage to have both on your team in the AL East, you do it. You make room for Holliday.
I agree. I knew the Yankees could afford it, but I thought it was only a pipe dream that theyd sign both teixiera and Sabathia....but it happened. I'd prefer they didnt, but the Sawx could certainly get both Bay and Holliday.
