http://pittsburgh.sbnation.com/pitt...ade-pirates-astros-rudy-owens-robbie-grossman -P- The Pirates get Rodriguez and cash to pay part of the money remaining on his contract. The Bucs will pay $1.7 million in 2012, $8.5 million in 2013 and $7.5 million in 2014. (Rodriguez has a player option in 2014 that he will probably exercise.) -P- The Astros get outfield prospect Robbie Grossman and pitching prospects Rudy Owens and Colton Cain. (Grossman and Cain are from Texas, incidentally.) http://content.usatoday.com/communi...012/07/hanley-ramirez-traded-to-the-dodgers/1 The Marlins, who aren't required to pick up any of the remaining $38 million in Ramirez's salary, will receive starter Nate Eovaldi and minor-league pitcher Scott McGough, the officials said.
Watching the Marlins game via mlb.tv. Idiotic announcer says it's not a firesale and that he'd only agree it's a firesale if their payroll is $50 million by opening day 2013. Hello? They can't get rid of all their salaries. They're slashing payroll, but there's a limit to what they can do. Some of the big contracts they have, they can't really get rid of. Heath Bell, Carlos Zambrano, etc. So obviously their payroll will be over $50 million next season, but that doesn't mean it's not a firesale.
Carlos Zambrano is in the last year of his contract, he's due $18 mil and the Marlins are only paying him $2.5 of that with the Cubs paying the rest. I believe this is not a fire sale, they just decided to dump a horrible contract (Hanley) and three other players that are just complimentary pieces. Everyone down here is making a big deal but when you take a step back and analyze the moves, they just traded an immature Ramirez who is due $36.5 million over the next two years and is batting just .245 in his last 776 PAs in the last two years and is a liability on defense. A second baseman who doesn't really WOW in any category, a starting pitcher who will be a FA next year and command a huge raise even though he's just back of the rotation pitcher and a 36-year old left specialist. Also, who is to say that they don't spend again next offseason and hopefully learn from their mistakes.
I don't think Hanley is worth it either but that's their own fault for giving out that contract. Regardless, the point is that they can't really get to a $50 million payroll.
Harold Reynolds said "Scott Frazier" before quickly correcting himself and calling the guy by his name of Todd. This is why in the past on this forum I have stated that if your name is Todd it might as well be Scott and if your name is Scott it might as well be Todd.
Who the fuck is Scott Frazier? I saw Todd Frazier play multiple times since his career at Rutgers. Saw him play for the Billings Mustangs as well as with the Reds twice in Spring Training. If I remember his brother Charlie played with the Marlins and brother Jeff with the Tigers.
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...from-fenway/mKDnTHAlgB6bYuWLUf85rI/story.html Well this is random
According to Elias, Cubs/Cardinals today is apparently the first time that a team has homered in each of the first five innings against the opposing starting pitcher (usually the starter gets pulled). Cards up 8-6. And the wind is blowing IN. The betting total was 7.5 because of the wind blowing fairly hard.
joeinva wrote: Good God. Even Wally's trying to flee town to avoid watching the Sox. Let him go! Highandinside wrote: Somebody check out the Tobin Bridge! Maybe Wally couldn't take it anymore. jazzyj77 wrote: On second thought maybe he's going to get a second opinion since the Red Sox medical staff tried to put him on the DL ArthurBishop wrote: He's off to join the other 12,000 to watch the Pats training camp.
more proof that ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball announcing crew (Francona, Shulman, and Hershiser) doesn't follow baseball. They just talked for several minutes about how unselfish it was for Adrian Gonzalez to play in right field this season, and how they thought it would turn the Boston season around when he agreed to play there, blah blah blah. Last season, it was a big story when he played right field. Apparently they weren't paying attention in 2011, because it made a pretty big splash. This season was not the first time he played right.
I'm pretty sure they knew that, seeing as it was Francona that put him there. There was a huge difference though from last year. That was for a couple games in NL parks so Ortiz could play. This year, he offered to do it regularly, in AL parks, because of injuries to the outfield combined with the Youkilis/Middlebrooks situation. Completely different circumstances. Besides, last year wasn't the first time he'd done it either.
I didn't say last season was the first time he played right. I said they made a big deal out of it when he did it last year. A lot of articles and reactions to it.
I would like to thank Miami for Hanley Ramirez. We just swept SF and tied them for first place, finishing a road trip at 7-3. Ramirez had the game-winning HR in the 10th Friday night and was key to getting us the lead yesterday for Kershaw, who threw a shutout.
You implied that last year was the time that it was OK to make a big deal over it, but this year wasn't because he's done it before. So even though you apparently want to ignore how different a situation it is, that doesn't change the fact that you don't seem to have a problem with it happening last year for some reason.
Last year was his first year with the team and he had just signed a big contract. Once again, I never said he played right for the first time last year. I merely mentioned that they made a big deal out of him playing right field last year. Additionally, before last season, he had not played right field since 2005 (and that was the only game he had ever played in right in the majors), so I could see how it would be a big deal.
But the hugely different circumstances this year didn't warrant the move being mentioned in a national telecast of a game featuring said player?
