2013/14 MLB Off-season Random Thoughts

[ThomasTomasz]

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I guess this is the Hot Stove thread?

Yo West, check it out:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/11/diamondbacks-sign-ryan-rowland-smith.html

 

[Chrispy]

Just hope the Yanks don't give Cano a huge deal, already 31 and we have enough big contracts to deal with.

 

[Goober]

Just hope the Yanks don't give Cano a huge deal, already 31 and we have enough big contracts to deal with.

Chrispy in a few weeks:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Jay Bruce to center?

 

[Villain]

Who knows? Maybe it'll fix him.

 

Yeah, right. :fuckoff:

 

[ThomasTomasz]

For as much as I like Nate McLouth and was hoping the Orioles would bring him back, did the Nationals really give a fourth outfielder $5.5 million a year?

I guess I should back off these FA prices, as most of them are here to stay and that's the price for the open market.

 

[BigBucs]

:iseeu:

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[JimLeavy59]

The King.

 

[Villain]

:iseeu:

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Holy shit.

 

[Villain]

Among the 81 pitchers with at least 162 innings pitched in 2013, Volquez ranked last in ERA (5.71), last in ERA+ (60), 66th in FIP (4.25), and last in Wins Above Replacement by both FanGraphs (0.4) and Baseball-Reference (-2.4).

But he somehow got a $5 million contract.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

He hasn't even proven himself capable of a bounce back at Petco, how the hell he got $5 million from the Pirates of all teams is ridiculous.

Does this mean they are giving up on Burnett? I have to think if he doesn't retire, it's between the Orioles and Pirates.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Some guy who thinks he saw Davidson's D'Backs career effectively end in 2012

Davidson in 2012 AZ Fall League Game
Comes up to the plate. Struck out looking.
Pops out.

About the 5th inning, playing 3rd base… really hot smash to his throwing hand 2 hopper with fire on it to his right maybe 1 step away. Davidson tries to back hand the ball cross body with his glove down low. Ball hits a rock and bounces up and hits Davidson’s cheekbone. It sounds like an aluminum bat hitting a ball. The ball caroms away to towards the second baseman going up about 20 feet in the air and dying on the infield grass. Davidson is sprawled out in the basepath. Matty Williams runs out to him and it took Davidson about 5 minutes just to sit up.

Well, I had earlier seen Kurt Gibson and Kevin Towers standing behind home plate on the walkway about 30 feet away. As Davidson was falling to the ground and the ball was floating towards second, I turned to see Gibsons and KT’s reaction. Gibby looked concerned but Towers rolled his eyes, shook his head and turned his back on the field and then Gibson turned his back and they huddled up.

I had a sneaky feeling at that moment, they thought that Davidson did not have the reactions nor glove to play the hot corner. I later heard a rumor that the following Spring (last March), Davidson demanded to be traded after learning that he wouldn’t play on the big club. (He had torn up Reno the prior summer).

Well, looks like that snippet of a memory might have just been another small reason KT pulled the trigger on Davidson. Poor kid didn’t play again that fall and took a month and a half to recover from that awful infield smash.

 

[ram29jackson]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/barry-zito-car-crash_n_842917.html

LOS ANGELES -- San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito has been examined at a hospital and released after his car was hit broadside at a West Hollywood intersection.

The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday at Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Plaza Drive, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Joseph Morien told The Associated Press.

The pitcher was taken to a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was examined and released, Deputy Mark Pope said Thursday.

It wasn't clear if Zito was injured. Morien said he was taken to the hospital "just to be checked out if he had injuries or not."

 

[Villain]

The market for half-decent bench guys sucks balls.

 

[Woy]

The market for half-decent bench guys sucks balls.

Mark Ellis :giveit:

 

[Slateman]

For as much as I like Nate McLouth and was hoping the Orioles would bring him back, did the Nationals really give a fourth outfielder $5.5 million a year?

I guess I should back off these FA prices, as most of them are here to stay and that's the price for the open market.

Probably more of a platoon player. I could see him getting starts, especially if Harper continues to suck at hitting lefties.

 

[SuperKevin]

Mike Rizzo and Billy Beane must have some sort of friendship pact. The Nats traded OF Corey Brown back to Oakland for cash considerations. This is the 8th trade the two clubs have made in 3 years

 

[Villain]

Mark Ellis :giveit:

I wanted his option picked up. :kanye:

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Probably more of a platoon player. I could see him getting starts, especially if Harper continues to suck at hitting lefties.

Still a lot for a platoon guy, but by this point that's the going rate so I can't really complain.