Thursday, November 20, 2003
AFTERMATH...
Okay, kids. The Raul Ibanez thing became a formality. Big fun. Okay, the complete opposite, because everyone who knew better wanted Vlad Guerrero and KNEW that the Mariners could make that work, but had operatives working at Edgar's party and not any party of Vlad's.
Bottom line is, if this team is stupid enough to keep both Cameron and Winn on the roster, then I will take a page out of Bill Simmons' book and I will light myself on fire. You just can't have both of those guys, because someone is going to be on the bench and that someone is going to be massively overpaid. If Winn gets $5M (!!) in arbitration, I don't care how good he is, no 4th outfielder should be making 5M damn dollars. That's friggin ridiculous.
Oh, by the way, the other more esteemed and REPUTABLE David at USS Mariner mentioned that Jose Cruz Jr would have been a more reasonable and smart signing by about the same price, and HE would have been the right former Mariner to go after in this case. And oh yeah, HE WON A GOLD GLOVE THIS YEAR.
Okay, now the press conference articles -- Times. P-I.
First, the Finnigan stuff...
- First thing brought up is 3B Joe Randa possibly following Raul to Seattle. Maybe at least SOMETHING good can come out of this...
- Ibanez "was at the top of [the Mariners'] offseason wish list for outfielders," though "team officials will be happier still when they have about another half-dozen moves made." Hopefully they're better than this one.
- Apparently Korean slugger Lee Seung-Yeop took a tour of the Safe and hung out in the city, and speculation suggests Lee "as a possible replacement for John Olerud in a year or two." Once again, the question arises of foreign talent versus proven Major League talent. And as for replacing Olerud in a year or two, I have two words which I have used many times on this site -- RICHIE SEXSON.
Now the Hickey stuff...
- brings up Ibanez/Winn/Ichiro outfield, or signing Cam and shopping Winn. PLEASE, NO RANDY WINN IN CENTERFIELD. Remember that week this season when Cameron was tending to an ailing relative and Winn was in center? He was a zoo. I'll say that over and f---ing over again (thanks for that one, Lou). The guy didn't have anywhere near the range that Cam did, and I didn't expect him to. But he made errors that seem to stick out in my mind. That and HE HAS NO ARM.
- so Ibanez worked with Kevin Seitzer when he was hitting with the Royals. Maybe Seitzer's former Brewer teammate Paul Molitor can help Ibanez hit even better. I'm not banking on it, but man, Seitzer and Molitor were two awesome hitters.
That's all for tonight from Lind Hall on the campus of Central Washington University. It's time to do some geologic cross-sections...
Bottom line is, if this team is stupid enough to keep both Cameron and Winn on the roster, then I will take a page out of Bill Simmons' book and I will light myself on fire. You just can't have both of those guys, because someone is going to be on the bench and that someone is going to be massively overpaid. If Winn gets $5M (!!) in arbitration, I don't care how good he is, no 4th outfielder should be making 5M damn dollars. That's friggin ridiculous.
Oh, by the way, the other more esteemed and REPUTABLE David at USS Mariner mentioned that Jose Cruz Jr would have been a more reasonable and smart signing by about the same price, and HE would have been the right former Mariner to go after in this case. And oh yeah, HE WON A GOLD GLOVE THIS YEAR.
Okay, now the press conference articles -- Times. P-I.
First, the Finnigan stuff...
- First thing brought up is 3B Joe Randa possibly following Raul to Seattle. Maybe at least SOMETHING good can come out of this...
- Ibanez "was at the top of [the Mariners'] offseason wish list for outfielders," though "team officials will be happier still when they have about another half-dozen moves made." Hopefully they're better than this one.
- Apparently Korean slugger Lee Seung-Yeop took a tour of the Safe and hung out in the city, and speculation suggests Lee "as a possible replacement for John Olerud in a year or two." Once again, the question arises of foreign talent versus proven Major League talent. And as for replacing Olerud in a year or two, I have two words which I have used many times on this site -- RICHIE SEXSON.
Now the Hickey stuff...
- brings up Ibanez/Winn/Ichiro outfield, or signing Cam and shopping Winn. PLEASE, NO RANDY WINN IN CENTERFIELD. Remember that week this season when Cameron was tending to an ailing relative and Winn was in center? He was a zoo. I'll say that over and f---ing over again (thanks for that one, Lou). The guy didn't have anywhere near the range that Cam did, and I didn't expect him to. But he made errors that seem to stick out in my mind. That and HE HAS NO ARM.
- so Ibanez worked with Kevin Seitzer when he was hitting with the Royals. Maybe Seitzer's former Brewer teammate Paul Molitor can help Ibanez hit even better. I'm not banking on it, but man, Seitzer and Molitor were two awesome hitters.
That's all for tonight from Lind Hall on the campus of Central Washington University. It's time to do some geologic cross-sections...
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