Today is the last day to offer arbitration to free agents. Offering arbitration does a few important things. 1) It can get you a player on a one year deal who you wouldn’t necessarily want for more than that. While free agents don’t usually accept arbitration they sometimes do if the market seems stale (see: [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2008
What Is This Team Doing?
The Yankees intend to offer arbitration to their own free agent, Bobby Abreu, by tonight’s midnight deadline, and the Mets likely will do the same with their own free agent, Oliver Perez. The rest of the local teams’ free agents, including big names Andy Pettitte and Pedro Martinez, probably will not be extended that courtesy, [...]
2009 Hall of Fame Ballot
Here’s the official ballot (links open up their baseball-reference page): • Harold Baines • Jay Bell • Bert Blyleven • David Cone • Andre Dawson • Ron Gant • Mark Grace • Rickey Henderson • Tommy John • Don Mattingly • Mark McGwire • Jack Morris • Dale Murphy • Jesse Orosco • Dave Parker [...]
This…This Is A Bad Idea
Per Pete Abe the Yankees are offering none of their free agents arbitration. I cannot express in words how stupid this is right now but it is really dumb, especially if they still plan on signing multiple Type A free agents. Good job guys, I can’t wait to see what the team looks like on [...]
All of Baseball Has Gone Crazy
Apparently general managers everywhere are cowering in fear that their team’s free agents might accept arbitration. Here’s a partial list of people who have not been offered: Type A Type B Bobby Abreu Moises Alou Doug Brocail Garrett Anderson Patt Burrell Joe Beimel Adam Dunn Alan Embree Bob Howry Luis Gonzalez Jamie Moyer Ken Griffey [...]
This doesn’t deserve a giant post with lots of justification because it makes so much sense. The Yankees should sign Adam Dunn now that he hasn’t been offered arbitration. No I don’t know where he would play position wise and I honestly don’t care as long as it’s not SS/2B. He’ll cost less (a lot [...]
Hall of Fame Argument Frustration: Chapter 1
Well now that the official ballot is out, people are starting to talk about who they’re voting for and launch the usual pro and con campaigns. Today’s feature is Scott Miller’s pro-Jim Rice argument. I’ve always voted for Rice because, for me, he passes perhaps the most important criteria for Cooperstown: Did he dominate his [...]
Winter Meetings Begin
Well, the Winter Meetings start today and stuff is already happening. Cashman apparently had some kind of meeting with CC Sabathia yesterday that all Yankees fans hope went well. The Tigers have traded for Gerald Laird, so that’s one less team looking for a catcher. The Mets took Francisco Rodriguez out to dinner (no word [...]
It Should Be Exciting…But It’s Not
So far out of the Winter Meetings: The Veterans Committee failed to vote in any post-War players like Dick Allen or Ron Santo. Boo on you, Veterans Committee. CC Sabathia isn’t signing before the meetings are over and if the Giants offer him anything that doesn’t suck, he’s going there so yeah he’s going there [...]
