I was just reading Only Baseball Matters, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite baseball blogs, when I came across a February 12 post about Tim Lincecum. I have been meaning to write something here since the San Francisco Giants resigned their two-time Cy Young award-winning pitcher to a two-year, $23 million contract last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Free agency, trades, and other moves’
Belated thoughts on the Tim Lincecum signing
Posted: 16th February 2010 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves, Tim Lincecum
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On recent hot stove developments
Posted: 27th January 2010 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
I could have titled this post, A Winn win for New York or The Yankees are getting Randy!, but it struck me that nobody wants to read about an aging castoff from the San Francisco Giants who signed a bargain basement free agent deal to, essentially, sit on a bench in New York. How Randy [...]
Vlade, Texas Ranger
Posted: 10th January 2010 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves, Vladimir Guerrero
The Texas Rangers scored something of a coup yesterday, signing free agent Vladimir Guerrero to a one-year deal for $5 million, plus incentives, with a $1 million option buyout for a second year. The 2004 American League Most Valuable Player was let go by the Los Angeles Angels after an injury-riddled season in 2009. Guerrero [...]
Matt Holliday is back with the Cardinals, Andre Dawson is in the Hall of Fame and everything is right with the world… I think
Posted: 7th January 2010 by Graham Womack in Baseball Hall of Fame, Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Free agency, trades, and other moves, Matt Holliday
A lot’s happened in baseball in the past few days. The annual Hall of Fame vote was announced, with Andre Dawson being the sole inductee for 2010, and Matt Holliday, the biggest name on the free agent market resigned with the St. Louis Cardinals. The part of me that likes order and tranquility has been [...]
Special Christmas sale: Cheap free agents
Posted: 14th December 2009 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
A staggering 266 baseball players recently hit the free agent market, and between the sputtering economy and abundance of quality players for teams to choose from, their prospects for landing decent contracts don’t look good. There hasn’t been a worse time in years to be a free agent coming off a marginal or injury-riddled season. [...]
Attack of the mediocre pitchers
Posted: 9th December 2009 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
ESPN is awash in news today of several pitchers changing teams. In the past 24 hours or so, the following transactions have materialized: The Milwaukee Brewers committed $37 million to Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins, which connected with a bigger news story: Michael Jackson is alive and he’s got a new job as their free-spending [...]
A Grander vision for the Yankees
Posted: 9th December 2009 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
News out of New York this evening is that the Yankees are on the verge of a three-way trade for Detroit Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson. New York will apparently have to give up little beyond a small assortment of prospects and spare parts to obtain the 28-year-old All Star. This trade couldn’t have cost [...]
Halladay, would he be so nice?
Posted: 28th November 2009 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay is poised to collect a substantial payday. Preliminary indications are that Toronto will not attempt to resign the 32-year-old free agent to-be, whose contract is up after 2010. While a big team like the Red Sox, Yankees or Mets (or maybe the Dodgers or Angels) will gladly overpay Halladay, [...]
The senior days for Ken Griffey Jr.
Posted: 17th November 2009 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves, old baseball players
Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray wrote about the twilight of Willie Mays’ career in a 1973 column, when the future Hall of Famer was hitting .211 for the New York Mets. Murray wrote: We all thought Willie Mays would just get younger. He was one of those touched individuals for whom time seemed to [...]
Hello Mr. Penny, you’re in good company
Posted: 1st September 2009 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesTags: Free agency, trades, and other moves
Yesterday brought some good news for my San Francisco Giants: Two-time All Star pitcher Brad Penny cleared waivers Monday and is signing with the team. The 31-year-old Penny has struggled with injuries the past two years, but won 32 games between 2006-07 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. As a Number 4 or 5 starter for [...]