Late-week news of little or no note
Well, sort of. Those of you who like me have not forsaken the Cult of Doyle after the team’s craven betrayal of Snelling will note that Austin Kearns’ new $17.5m deal with the Nationals. This means that Snelling’s going to have to beat the stuffing out of, at least, Ryan Church and a similar cast of scrubs in order to crack the starting Nationals lineup. He’s out of options, right? Maybe the Nationals end up waiving him at the end of spring training when one or more of Vidro/Guillen demonstrate they can’t play and… yeah, I’m dreaming.
Mike Matheny’s retiring for medical reasons.
Roger Clemens continues to generously fill column-inches.
Pirates signed Tony Armas Jr. to a 1-yr, $3.5m deal to avoid arb.
Brian Roberts signed with the Orioles for 1y, $4.2m
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Sounds more like a nightmare. Maybe we can see who the Royals, Devil Rays, and Pirates waive first. No need to go “all out” for a Nationals reject.
That really stinks for Snelling. I don’t see where he might get in (although I can see where he should). IMO Ryan Church isn’t exactly a scrub, but the rest of the competition may well be. Hopefully someone will start in an 0-23 slump and then Doyle will get a shot and make the most of it.
Seems like Tony Armas Jr. has been around forever. Somehow with so many short/shortened seasons he’s still in arby. Wow.
Per a rumor from Mr. Churchill, the M’s are about to waive Y.Bazardo in order to put Weaver onto the 40 man roster. Bazardo is the 23 year old pitcher who we got when we traded Villone to the Marlins…
I sure am glad Bavasi is our GM…
You mean we’d actually keep that Rule 5 guy who has no shot of making the rotation instead? Sean Red, Blue or White or something??
Ugh
it’s Snelling, Ryan Church, Kory Casto, Nook Logan, Alex Escobar, & Austin Kearns in the outfield, right?
it sure didn’t sound like Matheny would be back– hopefully he can be ok for every day life.
Armas was a free agent.
The Washington organization hates Ryan Church. They’ve never given that sap a chance.
Roberts was a decent signing, assuming he can play at least at around Raul Ibañez level.
That said, how about ex-M’s GM Gillick? First he loads up on ex-M and NW players, and now he grants an extra-Weaver $8.5 mill. contract to “arguably one of the premier pitchers in the National League,” Brett Myers. As a Seattle fan, who would you rather have?
(average $8.5 million per year, that is)
Sweet Jesus! Now THAT’S backloading a contract!
Unusual Mariner news: The official site’s banner has changed featuring Raul Ibanez, Felix Hernandez, and Ichiro!. Beltre and Sexson removed… interesting.
If for some crazy reason Bavasi re-acquired Doyle off waivers, how would that impact our opinion of him? Would he go from bumbling idiot to twisted genius? Or would he just be a really lucky bumbling idiot?
Dec 13th, 2006 secured his spot in “bumbling idiot” history.
It will be interesting to see what happens there. Bowden is not a Church fan, and Frank Robinson certainly wasn’t. If the Nats are going to trade an outfielder, he would be the logical guy to go.
Also, I don’t know that Bowden is the type to just waive guys if they have value — he loves to make deals. If Snelling loses out in a battle for a roster spot, Bowden would call all 31 MLB teams and then explore other options before cutting him loose.
How many teams would be ahead of the Ms in that scenario?
Myers isn’t in the Oswalt, Webb, and Carpenter category, but he is in the next tier of good NL starters. I think that this is actually a great signing for Gillick – kind of like how Detroit locked up Bonderman on the cheap as well.
Per a rumor from Mr. Churchill, the M’s are about to waive Y.Bazardo in order to put Weaver onto the 40 man roster. Bazardo is the 23 year old pitcher who we got when we traded Villone to the Marlins…
I sure am glad Bavasi is our GM…
Look, we are all losing our Bavasi fandom here, but this trade made sense and still does. Villone had no role with the club and was going to get far more money the next year. The M’s got a gamble of a prospect in return. The gamble didn’t pay off.
Bavasi traded a bullpen arm for a chance at a better bullpen arm. It didn’t work. By the time he knew it didn’t work, he had players equal to Villone flooding the bullpen. That all sounds reasonable to me.
Please concentrate your anger on Snelling for Vidro.
#12, he wouldn’t even be that lucky. We’d still be stuck with a crappy Vidro contract. Plus I think the Mariners would actually be against picking him back up off of waivers. They made a choice, it wasn’t that he was the guy that the Nationals absolutely needed if they were going to give up Vidro. Or at least that’s the way it appears to me. My only question is how much of that is Bavasi and how much of that is ownership backing Hargrove or something. I guess I just have this feeling that Bavasi is smarter than the moves he has made, and he seemed to genuinely like and value Snelling. So, I kind of suspect meddling ownership, though I don’t know how we would ever know, making it just idle (and useless) speculation.
Isn’t this good for you guys? I mean Snelling has no options left, right? So if he’s cut, then you can claim him on waviers?
Guys, the Mariners aren’t really getting Doyle back on waivers. And why would they need to? If they need another outfielder, they can sign a veteran presence who is looking to revitalize his career coming off an injury: Shannon Stewart!
oh thank goodness.
He should be okay. Brett Lindros is a good comp for this sort of injury. As long as he doesn’t bump his head or exert himself at all he’ll be fine.
At this point, Matheny had been inactive for so long waiting for his post-concussion syndrome to go away it would have taken him many months to get back into game shape anyway.
Snelling will end up with the A’s. Talk among yourselves.
It’s Lima Time!!!
the Caribbean series is underway, with Venezuela vs the DR. why look! it’s bases loaded with one out in the 1st….
RE: #22. It makes me wonder why some football jocks like Brett Favre who are known to have multiple concussions keep on truckin’ out there on the football field. Maybe it’s a sign that he’s permanently addled, that he decided to come back for a 17th season…
Bavasi traded a bullpen arm for a chance at a better bullpen arm. It didn’t work. By the time he knew it didn’t work, he had players equal to Villone flooding the bullpen. That all sounds reasonable to me.
It’s reasonable in isolation, but in practice and overall it’s meant that the net gain for every single salary dump trade for kids Bavasi has made, in terms of the 25 man roster (Garcia, Winn, Villone, Moyer) hasn’t even been CLOSE to what the other team got. In other words. none of the kids have panned out (Moyer’s deal still having a chance to, of course, and Guardado, too, I guess). Even some of the reject/spare parts deals (Matt Thornton, Miguel Olivo), while perfectly understandable at the time, have gone badly for the M’s
At some point, Branch Rickey’s dictum comes to mind: “Luck is the residue of design”. Bavasi’s design’s been pretty awful, so his luck’s not so good, either.
well, crap. apparently it is offically Bazardo off the 40-man.