Looks like the Royals just lavished $9M+ for two years on Kyle Farnsworth, of all people.
This probably makes the Mike Hampton and Barry Zito contracts look like great deals.
The New York Yankees are set to trade Melky Cabrera to the Milwaukee Brewers for Mike Cameron, according to two major league sources, the New York Daily News reported.
Apparently Mike has only one year left on his contract, so not a terrible move.
Oh lord… I kinda like Mike Cameron and all, but how does this trade make sense? He’s 35-year-old, Melky’s 24. Cameron played more last year, but he didn’t have a great year and he’s in decline, while I think Cabrera can bounce back from a bad year. This is the kind of trade I don’t like the Yankees to make.
On the upside, suddenly they do seem interested in Texeira. That’s a move I can get behind.
Yeah, the first time I saw JJ Putz’s name in a box score I thought to myself, “there’s a reliever whose destiny lies with a New York team.”
I’ll miss Endy, of course, but when you get right down to it, he was a defensive replacement and pinch runner.
I wish Heilman well, and hope he can be a successful starter in Seattle. I think he got a lot of unfair crap from the press and many fans about wanting to be a starter – why shouldn’t he? He only voiced his desire when asked, understood he was under contract, and never dogged it in relief (when he bombed it wasn’t for lack of trying or caring). He struggled down the stretch in 2007 and in most of 2008, yet never made excuses and took the boos in stride. He was very professional about the whole thing.
He wouldn’t be the first pitcher who was terrific for 5 out of 6+ innings, but seemed prone to that One Big Inning. It could be that he’s better suited as a #4 or #5 starter than a reliever. In any case his welcome was worn out in NY, but he’s still young enough and has good enough “stuff” that he deserves a fresh start somewher eelse.
I rather don’t get this move. Cameron’s a great glove in CF and an OK bat, but he’s 34 and on the decline. OK, with the one-year-left angle this could be a salary dump, but since when have the Yankees put clearing 5 mil or so a year off the books ahead of cementing a key position? I mean, who’s going to be starting in CF in 2010? Any particular free agent? Anybody coming up from the minors? I’m not aware of any top center-fielder prospects in the Yankees farm system.
Are they gonna flip Cameron in another deal to a team that needs the salary
Tigers had him at the end of last year. I watched him pitch several times. He thew hard ,ball moved well. Then he would toss one that bumped into the bat and go over the fence.It kept happening and made no sense.
Right- would you please run that past me again, What Exit? I don’t know how long Cabrera is under contract, but he made less than $500,000 last season- not a tenth of Cameron’s salary this year. This is not a cap space move.
I see that the NY Daily News posits that Austin Jackson is the blue-chip prospect the Yankees are grooming for CF in 2010. I hadn’t heard of him yet, so I hope that works out…
They have a CF prospect named Austin Jackson who they are high on, and expect to be ready by 2010. I also think the Cabrera and Cano got a reputation (don’t know if it’s deserved or not) for enjoying the NYC nightlife a bit too much. They both had bad years, so who knows?
Cameron is very well liked by CC. He plays very good defense and Melky was never meant to the long term solution to CF. They are hoping that Jackson develops to take over in 2010 or 2011.
I don’t think CBS has a full understanding of the situation. Paul Godfrey was careful in his comments, but if you parse his words he didn’t really say anything (he was a politician, after all.)
While Ted Rogers himself is dead, the media empire he created no longer needed him to keep running. Hasn’t for years. The Blue Jays are a relatively small part of that empire, and they’re fully integrated into the overall package - they own the stadium, of course, and use the Blue Jays as free programming for their sports network, content on their radio stations, tie ins with the cell and cable empire, so on and so forth. They’ve also rolled in the Argos and, of course, brought in the Bills to play some games. The Jays are worth a lot to the Rogers empire. More important, they’re worth more to Rogers than they would be to anyone else - since nobody else has a comparable media empire in which to put a professional baseball team.
They continue to pursue Furcal, and there’s no way they can significantly reduce the payroll in a sane manner if they get Furcal; that gives lie to the idea they’re slashing payroll. A generally safe rule of thumb with J.P. Ricciardi is to NEVER believe what he says, only what he does; he lies to the media routinely, probably as some sort of ongoing policy of not tipping his hand.