Rest of baseball thread 2006

[MDS]

Sheffield to Deeeeetroit Basketball for some crap

Detroit has acquired Gary Sheffield from the New York Yankees for three right-handed pitching prospects, the Tigers announced Friday.

In return for Sheffield, the Tigers sent Humberto Sanchez, Kevin Whelan and Anthony Claggett to New York. Detroit agreed to a two-year contract extension with Sheffield through the 2009 season

So, I guess it's Soriano or bust.

[mpmcgraw]

How do the Yankees manage to rape everyone in every single deal they get?

Humberto is a stud.

Boo. 

[Dillen]

How do the Yankees manage to rape everyone in every single deal they get?

Humberto is a stud.

Boo. 

On the Yankees mlb.com board they're all crying because Humberto is overweight. I farging hate NYC people.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Olney was on SportsCenter and he said that it appears that the Red Sox have won the Matsuzaka sweepstakes. He said that their winning bid will be between $38M and $45M.

That's just to get the right to sign him.

He also said that JD Boo will make up the money he gave up and the Red Sox are a likely destination

[MDS]

Why are the Sox trying to become NY Jr? The Yankees haven't won anything by just singing every decent free agent hitter imaginable.

Great. Now this will leave the Mets to sign Barry Zito. Hoooooray.

[mpmcgraw]

I doubt it.

He likes the west coast and Queens is a hell hole. 

[MDS]

He also likes shorties and money and NYC offers both.

[BigEd76]

Aramis Ramirez returns to the Cubs....5/$70M or so

Kerry Wood re-signed too

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yanks trade Jaret Wright to BAL and will pay $4M of his salary. The O's give up Britton.

Wright is reunited with Leo Mazzone.

[Rome]

Man, 73 million dollars for Aramis Ramirez?  Whew.

Eh - he's worth it and all, but Jesus... what kind of a bizarro world are we living in where $14M+ per year is a discounted anything?

[BigEd76]

Mark DeRosa signed with the Cubs....4 yrs, $13M.  Looks like Helms is ours... 

[Rome]

Holy toledo.



$51.1M just to be able to talk to that guy?  WTF are the Red Sox thinking??

Updated: Nov. 14, 2006, 8:21 PM ET
Red Sox's winning bid for Matsuzaka -- $51.1 million


NAPLES, Fla. -- The Boston Red Sox emerged Tuesday night as winners of the bidding for Daisuke Matsuzaka with a $51.1 million offer and have 30 days to sign the Japanese pitcher to a contract.

The Seibu Lions of Japan's Pacific League announced they had accepted the high bid -- ESPN's Peter Gammons this week reported the figure to be $42 million -- for their prized pitcher, and the major league commissioner's office simultaneously confirmed at the general managers' meetings that the Red Sox had made the offer.

"We're very pleased and excited. We've long admired Mr. Matsuzaka," Boston general manager Theo Epstein said. "Matsuzaka has a real talent. He would be a great fit with the Red Sox organization.

"We're excited to have won this part of the process. We're hopeful we can reach an agreement."

Even before the announcement, general managers had assumed Boston would be the highest bidder in the blind process.

"We'll congratulate the winner and move on," New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman said Tuesday afternoon.

Matsuzaka is represented by Scott Boras, who last year negotiated the deal that moved center fielder Johnny Damon from the Red Sox to the Yankees.

"Pitching, as usual, is at a premium," Boras said.

[MDS]

Pathetic.

[mpmcgraw]

Word is that they did it more to establish a market in Japan. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Hopefully he'll be Hideki Irabu II.