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12-10-04, 04:30 PM
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There have been some really crazy signings recently. Injury prone Troy Glaus get $45 mil, Steve Finley gets almost $10 mil a year to patrol the spacious center field in Dodger Stadium until hes 41!, and the DBacks give Russ Ortiz something like 4/34. Some of the recent signings are insane, and it makes me wonder what some GMs are thinking this offseason.
Carl Pavano is reportedly being offered 4/40+, who knows what Beltran will get, injury prone and aging guys are already getting upwards of $10m/year, guys like Kris Benson, Jaret Wright, and Eric Milton are getting $7-8 mil a year, while Odalis Perez is reportedly only being offered $15 million for 3 years, and the best FA pitcher on the market currently has a grand total of....2 teams bidding for him. Sometimes its hard to fathom what some baseball execs are thinking.
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12-11-04, 12:11 PM
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Sox reportedly signed David Wells to a 2 year deal worth 8 million + incentives. I have a feeling that a lot of the high ticket free agents are gonna sign in the next week, especially Pavano, Pedro, and Renteria, not to mention the possible trade of Tim Hudson.
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12-13-04, 03:12 PM
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finley signed with the angels, and that's actually i think a great deal for them. he's a gold glover, he plays well under his age, and he averages 150+ games a year. wells is a decent signing, but i probably wouldn't have guaranteed him the 2nd year. already a crazy offseason..
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12-13-04, 03:30 PM
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Right, wrong SoCal team. Anyways, I think the Angels are going to regret this signing. He's been declining offensively the last three years to the point where last year he had .330 OBP and I don't think those GGs mean a whole lot, UZR has Finley pegged as a -23 defender the past 3 years.
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12-14-04, 03:10 PM
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He has been declining offensively the past three years.
2002: .287/.370/.499 2003: .287/.363/.500 2004: .271/.333/.490 His walk rate also dropped for the third season from 11.3% in '02, to 9.8%, to 8.8% last year. And Gold Gloves is one of the last things I would use to measure defense, among the Gold Glove winners from '04 are Jim Edmonds, a player whose range is pretty average and routinely jogs after fly balls to set up dramatic catches, Derek Jeter, who is widely regarded as having one of the worst ranges for a shortstop in baseball, and Bret Boone, who was below league average defensively for a second baseman in pretty much every statistical category this year.
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12-14-04, 03:50 PM
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I dislike Edmonds as much as anyone else and he does dive to make a dramatic catch but I think he has good range. He has made some of the most spectaculat catches i have seen. In all directions. I feel bad now writing goods things about this pud.
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12-14-04, 10:39 PM
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wow yes that sure seems like a dramatic downswing in offensive numbers. those numbers are actually so close it shows what a CONSISTENT player finley is. is he a superstar? no. is he a VERY solid outfielder with good pop, a good glove, some speed, and he's durable.
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