2009 Plan:
1. Trade Castillo for nothing, eat 12 mil of the 18 mil left on his deal, 4 mil in each year, 2009, 2010, 2011
2. Pick up Delgado's option.
3. Sign Oliver Perez 5 years, 81.25 mil (2009: 13.75 mil, 2010: 15 mil, 2010: 16.25 mil, 2011: 17.5 mil, 2012: 18.75 mil)
4. Sign CC Sabathia 6 years, 124.5 mil (2009: 15.75 mil, 2010: 17.75 mil, 2011: 19.75 mil, 2012: 21.75 mil, 2013: 23.75 mil, 2014: 25.75 mil)
5. Sign Francisco Rodriguez 5 years, 78.75 mil (2009: 14.75 mil, 2010: 15.25 mil, 2011: 15.75 mil, 2012: 16.25 mil, 2013: 16.75 mil)
6. Trade Aaron Heilman, Duaner Sanchez, Pedro Feliciano and Scott Schoeneweis for prospects
6a. Aaron Heilman to DET for AAA RP Yorman Bazardo, A SP Mauricio Robles, A C Alex Avila
6b. Scott Schoeneweis to LAD for AA OF Andrew Lambo
6c. Duaner Sanchez and Pedro Feliciano to TB for AAA 3B/1B Chris Nowak and A SP Alex Cobb
7. Chris Nowak, Alex Cobb and Eric Niesen to MIN for Jesse Crain
8. Greg Veloz/Juan Lagares/Ruben Tejada and Michael Antonini/Dillon Gee/Dylan Owen to ARI for Jon Rauch
9. Josh Stinson, Lucas Duda and Brahiam Maldonado to KC for Ross Gload, Ron Mahay, Yashuhiko Yabuta and A LHP Dan Duffy (salary dumps)
11. Sign Will Ohman 2 years, 4.75 mil (2009: 2.5 mil, 2010: 2.25 mil)
For 2009, you're set with:
Delgado 1b, Murphy/Argenis 2b, Reyes ss, Wright 3b, Evans/Gload, Beltran cf, Church rf, Schneider/Castro c
Santana, Sabathia, Maine, Perez, Pelfrey
Rodriguez, Rauch, Crain, Smith, Mahay, Ohman, Yabuta
Payroll: $158.8 mil (underneath the $162 mil luxury tax)
2009 payroll: $134.55 mil, with 3 bullpen arms to get (incl Crain), a new bench, and new #1 catcher (one of Thole/Pena/Avila?)
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Insanity.
ReplyDeleteWhere does all this money come from??????
stupidity
ReplyDeleteThanks, anon - that's really insightful. Moron.
ReplyDeleteAndrew - it comes from the Wilpons ;)
Lol seriously??? U had to be laughing as you wrote that, cuz if u think the wilpons are shell out that kind of money, and If you think those teams are accept those deals then you are either a new met fan or just plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteKeep Gee, IMHO you dont see to many pitchers with the ability to run it up to 94-95 when they need to yet still have the ability to vary their FB speeds like he does along with his other pitches (CU,CB,SL) and plus/plus control of all of them. Picked up for the price of a 21st rounder he could turn out to be something special.
ReplyDeleteId rather trade Jose Reyes to Toronto for Halladay,and sign a veteran SS. Sign Hudson,k=ROD
ReplyDeleteWow. I'm sorry, but anyone who wants to trade Jose Reyes for ANYTHING is a retard. Straight up retard.
ReplyDelete"Keep Gee, IMHO you dont see to many pitchers with the ability to run it up to 94-95 when they need to yet still have the ability to vary their FB speeds like he does along with his other pitches (CU,CB,SL) and plus/plus control of all of them. Picked up for the price of a 21st rounder he could turn out to be something special."
ReplyDeleteHuh.. Since when does Gee get it up to 94-95?
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.