Honolulu 3, Waikiki 1
2b Greg Veloz 0 for 2, run, BB, .323, SB (2)
Josh Stinson 4 IP, 2 H, 2/3 BB/K, 0.87 era, W (2-0), 42:27:15, 7:2:3
Roy Merritt 0.1 IP, H, ER, HR, 4.05 era, 10:7:3, 0:1:0
Peoria Saguaros 10, Scottsdale 7
c Josh Thole 0 for 3, run, 2 BBs, .000
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I'm late to this party, but I'd like to give my responses to your plan for '08, addressing them in order of decreasing sympathy.
ReplyDeleteI'd love it if Murphy could play 2nd; but he has not proven that he can yet. However, I could see turning Murphy into a solid 2nd baseman by trade; in that case you could say Murphy at 2nd.
Ohman would be a solid addition to our bullpen, but he would probably cost more than that. Still, he would be a good safety in case Parnell and Kunz don't work out, and he would be eminently tradeable to a buyer that needs bullpen help.
Good idea.
In terms of years, that price for Sabbathia is too high; in terms of annual salary, it's reasonable. Sabbathia was overworked, bad in the playoffs, and a perpetual injury risk regardless. The Yankees, despite their talk of wanting a starter, have 4 quality starters under their control and a bloated payroll. All this makes me skeptical as to how much they're really willing to pay for Sabbathia. I wouldn't give much more than 4 years $80M, but you have to test the market for this.
Heilman for 3 B- to B+ prospects? Doable and intriguing, especially if you have other bullpen options in '08.
If you sign Sabbathia, keep Niese and get draft picks for Ollie. I don't want to go down the road of losing picks for free agents. We've been there before. It's not pretty.
Feliciano and Sanchez are not good enough to produce Cobb (2 Honda Civics for a Lexus) and their track records--and thus their chances of recovery--are too good for you to give them away for 3 marginal prospects, none of whom project to be even average major leaguers.
I see F-Rod turning into a wildly overpaid John Franco. Unless his price plummets, avoid him scrupulously. Keep your picks.
The Royals would have 29 suitors for Duffy as well as every reason to keep him. Why would they trade him for the decidedly inferior Josh Stinson? Duda and Maldonado are undistinguished to say the least, and the rest of the Royals you mention amount to $6M worth of crap. The Royals should not be desperate to drop their salaries, as all of their contracts expire soon anyway. They'd essentially be swapping Duffy for Stinson, $6M and 2 players who are longshots to even taste the majors. Even if they were inclined to trade him, they could easily do better.
Lambo for Schowenweis? If I were the Dodgers and you put a gun to my head, I might think about it. File this under parody.
I don't know of a polite way to describe your Jon Rauch suggestion. It has a good chance of amounting to one of those historically terrible Kazmir/Seaver-like trades. We lack depth, breadth, and elite prospects and you want to trade all three for a good/not great/sort-of-expensive reliever whom we'll only have for two years? Do you realize that the Diamondbacks got him for Emilio freaking Bonifacio? Are you on crack?
Anyway, those are my 2 cents.