What???? Derek Jeter didn't get the Gold Glove? Bullshit.

LOL!

Rumor is that Manny has been offered a contract by the Dodgers for around 24-26M per year, but another rumor is that it's just a 2 year deal with an option or something. Why would he do that, it seems like a silly offer. It really only pays him "marginally" more than he was set to make with his declined option anyway.

It's cool, he'll have less competition at 1B in a couple years.

Any Yanks fans?

Mike Cameron/Melky Cabrera rumors?

I'm torn. Cameron was lot more valuable to the Brewers than anybody gives credit. But getting CF is a black hole long term for the Crew. No, Tony Gwynn Jr. is not the answer. Question is, is Melky Cabrera basically Tony Gwynn Jr.?

didnt the brewers just pick up an option on Cameron?

Cameron is Sabathias BFF I do believe. Wonder if that is part of it.

Melky is decent but not great. Hes probably tapped offensivley but is a solid defender. Honestly, it is probably a wash. Cameron has more pop, Melky will hit for a better average. Defensivley both are good but Melky is probably a bit better.

Melky's pretty shitty. You can find a comparable defender who can actually hit. I wouldn't consider your CF position no longer a "black hole" if it's filled by him.

Yessir, $10 million.

Well, the other part of the rumor had Betemit possibly going to Milwaukee also. Not that that excites me too much either.

Phils making a run at Holliday?

When does open season on fa's start.

Expanding on yesterday's Mike Cameron to the Yankees rumors, by last night I was hearing Ian Kennedy's name and I wondered if Brian Cashman had gone completely nuts.

Apparently not. I'm pretty sure it didn't come from the Milwaukee papers but whoever started that rumor is pretty dumb.

Milwaukee will wait to see what Sabathia does before they do anything with Cameron.

Almost happened at the trade deadline last season, but the Rockies wanted too much. I think they wanted Victorino, Carrasco or Happ, and their top catching prospect (whose name escapes me at the moment) and the Phillies balked.

I'd love to have Holliday, but it depends on the asking price. You'd think that it should drop a little bit because Holliday is a free agent at the end of 09' and his agent is Boras. But if it still costs Werth or Victornio and Carrasco, I'd still balk.

While I do hope that the Phils are aggressive this off-season, I hope it's more in the FA market than trade market. The core of the defending World Champions is signed at set until after 2010, so the focus of the team should be improving the mediocre farm system in case we have to let Madson and/or Howard walk by then.

In a shocking upset, the "Derek Jeter Memorial Great Hitting, Terrible Fielding AL Shortstop Gold Glove" went to Michael Young this year. Beyond that, Torii Hunter? Name recognition. Nate McLouth? Why?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3686992

Interesting stuff. Two guys from India get a tryout in front of major league scouts.

Baseball would be well served to try and expand interest in China and India and Asia as a whole. Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have already produced big leaguers and I'm all for continuing to mine for talent in places you wouldn't think had any.

Gritty white guy that made only one error.

Also 40 runs below league average according to the Fielding Bible. Seriously, how many outfielders make more than say, 3 errors in a season? Other than Jose Canseco.

Of course. Does anybody take Gold Gloves (or any award, for that matter) seriously?

Awards are a joke.

Sportswriters, broadcasters and Derek Jeter fanboys? :)

And, unfortunately, dumb owners that let GMs pay salaries based on them.

edited wording

One error all year, i believe. He was still well below average, though.

25, in 2008.

Delmon Young
Carlos Quentin
Adam Dunn
Fred Lewis
Raul Ibanez
Jason Bay
Carlos Gomez
BJ Upton
Willy Taveras
Lastings Milledge
Michael Bourn
Josh Hamilton
Aaron Rowand
Curtis Granderson
Melky Cabrera
Rich Ankiel
Nick Swisher
Gary Matthews, Jr.
Brad Hawpe
Brian Giles
Corey Hart
Magglio Ordonez
Kosuke Fukodome
Jeremy Hermida
Jeff Francouer

Just be glad you didn't say "make 3 errors or more per year"
That would have added 9 more to the list.

As said before, end-season awards are pretty much a joke. So, I'm not too riled up about that.

The bigger travesty is that they are taken heavily into account for HoF selection.

Shurg. I'm not arguing with anyone here (not like anyone's defending the GG), I'm just trying to figure out how/why a plurality of sportswriters picked Nate McLouth on their own. There are ~25-30 NL outfielders who "only had" 2 errors or less, ~10 centerfielders, and McLouth had no reputation as far as I knew. I guess it really is a David Eckstein-hustling white guy award.

That's why my baseball career never progressed. I had the white part down, but I didn't have the hustling part down.

Apparently the Nats are going to offer Tex his 10 years, 200 mil to bring him home. That is quite an interesting development if it winds up being true.

Good lord, is "Tex" a nickname for some new, amazing player I've never heard of?

I've always know him him as Tex, was that not an acceptable nickname?

I think he was saying that he's not worth that much money.

I think he's saying Tex isn't worth the money, which he isn't.

At least with a ten year deal he might be there when the Nats finally turn things around.

Local rumor has the Angels offering Teix a 6 to 7 year deal at $20 M per. At least for now. No one's saying if they will go higher when he hits the market.

There goes that far fetched dream. :)

crap, ESPN was reporting over the weekend that the Cards were their #1 choice :(

Cards backed out. Price was too steep. I wonder what Oakland gave up? They have tons of depth, so I am sure Colorado made out nicely, but I am suprised the A's will take on the salary.

2:00pm: Ken Rosenthal chimes in. The deal may not be finalized for about 48 hours. Players discussed over the weekend: Carlos Gonzalez, Huston Street, and Smith.

Smith being P Greg Smith.

bummer

No major surprise. Geo Soto wins NL ROY.

Evan Longoria wins the AL.

Ever since reading Moneyball, when I hear trades or trade rumours involving the As I think that Billy Beane somehow conned the other team into a bad trade. :)

Looks like Smith, Street and Gonzalez will head to Colorado in exchange for Holliday.

I like the move for the A's. I am not sold on Street, but Smith and Gonzalez could be good pieces.

The Padres have said Peavy will likely be traded soon, to either the Braves, Cubs, or Dodgers. Even with Peavy the Braves still need some help, they have to do something about the outfield especially.

Why trade Peavy??

What do the Angels have to do with whether it's a good trade for Oakland?

Makes the West winnable for Oakland. Angels could lose Tex and KRod and their OF isn't getting younger.

I cant imagine the Dodegrs would give what the Pads want.

I would imagine its because they play in the same division and without Tex the A's can maybe compete.

There's no need to win the division. Just win 95 games. If the Angels decide to keep Tex and KRod so be it.

Wow. Living in the Denver area but a Sox fan and I got to say if I was a Rockies fan I would be fucking pissed for what they got. If it is true they got Street, Smith, and Gonzalez for Holiday they got screwed. The talk fpor a while here is the owners here are only interested in making money. Now I know everyone once to get paid but at least many owners at least try to win. That is not the case from everything I have seen, It is really sad because Rocky fans are very good fans and the fact they support this team year after year points to that. But, also the owners know the fans here are a little naive and no matter what fans will come out to the games with there kids since people here are really worried that the Rockies will just pick up and move. My advice to fans is grow a pair and boycott the Rockies until these owners start to build a better product.

Some conflicting reports on who is in the deal. Sounds like Gonzalez and Smith are for sure, but it could be Street or Ryan Sweeney as the third piece.

I fully expect all the talk of the Nationals getting a big name FA will all fall flat. Sigh.