Rest of Baseball Thread 2008

[PhillyPhreak54]

No real shockers on there.

All had serious illnesses or injuries I believe (not talking about Bonds and Sosa). So their excuses will be that it was used as treatments.

LoDuca is the exception to injury. Other than being a huge wet dripping vagina who waxes his eyebrows, nothing was wrong with that dooshbag.

[BigEd76]

Posada re-signed....4/$52M.  Looks like the Mets will need to re-sign Lo Duca now. ha

[ice grillin you]

uncle chuck second in manager of the year vote

[hunt]

Posada re-signed....4/$52M.  Looks like the Mets will need to re-sign Lo Duca now. ha

rivera & a-rod look like they'll be back too....they'll trade for santana next.

[Sgt PSN]

I'm gonna give some kudos to A-Rod for doing what a lot of athletes should have been doing to their agents for years and that's taking a little control from them.  A-Rod's initiating contract talks with the Yankees and Boras will be sitting in the background. 

Granted, it would have been nice for A-Rod to man up about 2 weeks ago during the WS and tell Boras to stfu then, but better late than never I suppose. 

[Rome]

Posada re-signed....4/$52M.  Looks like the Mets will need to re-sign Lo Duca now. ha

rivera & a-rod look like they'll be back too....they'll trade for santana next.

Chamberlain & Hughes + an every day starter?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Barry Bonds indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice.

A-Rod agrees to 10-year, $275 million deal with Yankees.


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[BigEd76]

Yorvit Torrealba gets 3 yrs $15M from the Mets

[SunMo]

.212, 2 HR outside of Coors Field last year, ha

[hunt]

Posada re-signed....4/$52M.  Looks like the Mets will need to re-sign Lo Duca now. ha

rivera & a-rod look like they'll be back too....they'll trade for santana next.

Chamberlain & Hughes + an every day starter?

melky cabrera should get it done.

[reese125]

WBZ-TV Boston's Dan Roche is reporting that the Yankees have offered Mike Lowell a four-year deal worth $56 million-$60 million.

Roche has supposedly confirmed this. It was a different Boston station that last night reported the Braves, Cards, Angels and Yankees had all offered deal worth $55 million-$60 million. That news seemed bogus at the time and still appears this way. However, it is possible that the Yankees are in that territory. If they're going to go that far to land Lowell, Mariano Rivera has a better case for receiving a four-year deal. The Red Sox are still offering Lowell three years. The Phillies continue to deny reports that they're going to be involved, so this may prove to be a two-team race.

[Rome]

Posada re-signed....4/$52M.  Looks like the Mets will need to re-sign Lo Duca now. ha

rivera & a-rod look like they'll be back too....they'll trade for santana next.

Chamberlain & Hughes + an every day starter?

melky cabrera should get it done.

Melky alone??  No.

BTW: I had a typo in my post.  I meant "or" not "&". 

[Rome]

What the...??

Report: A-Rod plan to go around Boras came from Buffett

Associated Press

Updated: November 17, 2007, 1:09 PM ET

NEW YORK -- Warren Buffett advised Alex Rodriguez to approach the New York Yankees and go around agent Scott Boras, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

The newspaper cited a person familiar with the matter, whom it did not identify.

"A-Rod really loves being a Yankee," Buffett was quoted as saying. He wouldn't comment on the substance of any discussions with the player.

The two became friends several years ago.

Rodriguez, on Boras' advise, opted out of the final three seasons of his record $252 million, 10-year contract on Oct. 28. The Yankees had said many times that if he opted out, they wouldn't negotiate because they would lose $21.3 million from Texas for the final three seasons that was agreed to at the time of the 2004 trade, money to offset the $72 million New York owed from 2008-10.

Upset with developments after he opted out, Rodriguez contacted Buffett, and the investor told him to approach the Yankees without his agent, the Journal said.

After speaking with the investor, Rodriguez contacted a managing director at Goldman Sachs that he knew, John Mallory, who then got in touch with Gerald Cardinale, a Goldman Sachs managing director who has worked with the Yankees and their YES Network.

With the assistance of the two Goldman executives, Rodriguez and the Yankees negotiated a $275 million, 10-year contract that is in the process of being finalized.

[BigEd76]

Rumors floating that the Torrealba deal with the Mets is off.  Maybe he failed a physical?

[BigEd76]

Rivera will likely accept the Yankees' 3/$45M offer

Luis Castillo about to re-sign with the Mets....4/$25M

Glavine close to signing with the Braves....1/$8M