Wednesday, November 12, 2003
MIDNIGHT NEW STUFF
John Hickey has the midnight Mariner post with the P-I here.
He spends the first half talking about Kazuo Matsui possibly staying in Japan because the Japanese national team qualified for the Olympics. Ho hum. Not too excited about Matsui on this end, which you'd know if you read the four or so Geoff Jenkins posts I did yesterday.
The most surprising thing (for me, anyway) about the article has to be the revelation (maybe I was the only one who didn't know) that "[t]he Mets have made signing Mariners reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa one of their top priorities." No sir, I did not know that.
There's the now much-ballyhooed speculation regarding the Rodriguez/Nomar three-team trade. There's Texas and Houston being interested in Andy Pettitte. There's the Sexson to Arizona talk (he'd spend one year there and then COME TO SEATTLE, or at least that's what I'd have him do) and the shipping out Jenkins talk also.
Then there's this sick trade...
to the Yanks: Curt Schilling, Jim Edmonds
to the Cardinals: Nick Johnson, Danny Bautista
to the Diamondbacks: Alfonso Soriano, Jeff Weaver
I guess Big George has given up on having Bernie in CF in the Bronx? That's how I take that. And he's covering up for the holes in the rotation. The Cards appear to be covering up for a departure from Tino. The Diamondbacks are getting a guy with pop and speed who strikes out a lot (a degenerative form of which is a bad Mike Cameron) and a guy in Weaver who really needs a change of scenery. Weaver in top form is nasty and eats up innings. And he should have been a Mariner before the Yankees ever got him.
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Bob Finnigan has the after-midnight Times article on the Mariners, about Bill Bavasi's first day as Mariner GM, and there's some material to be had here...
Discouraging quote of the article: "I'd love to be able to tell you I'm a trade guy. But I like young prospects, and I'm always afraid to move them."
UUUGGGGGHHHH!!!
Then the article proceeded to conveniently point out five of Bavasi's biggest moves as flops, desribed as "some rocky times" with the Angels -- the return of Jim Abbott, Damion Easley for Greg Gohr, JT Snow for Allen Watson, the Chili Davis signing, and the Mo Vaughn signing.
The article also says in the Notes section that Tony Attanasio is debunking the talk about seeking $15M for Ichiro.
Also mentioned is yet another sickening possible Schilling-to-the-Yanks deal...
to AZ: Richie Sexson
to NYY: Curt Schilling
to MILW: Nick Johnson, John Patterson
Man, seeing Schilling wearing pinstripes would make me sick, but seeing Sexson in those ugly-ass Arizona uniforms and playing in a park with a damn swimming pool would make me pretty damn sick too.
He spends the first half talking about Kazuo Matsui possibly staying in Japan because the Japanese national team qualified for the Olympics. Ho hum. Not too excited about Matsui on this end, which you'd know if you read the four or so Geoff Jenkins posts I did yesterday.
The most surprising thing (for me, anyway) about the article has to be the revelation (maybe I was the only one who didn't know) that "[t]he Mets have made signing Mariners reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa one of their top priorities." No sir, I did not know that.
There's the now much-ballyhooed speculation regarding the Rodriguez/Nomar three-team trade. There's Texas and Houston being interested in Andy Pettitte. There's the Sexson to Arizona talk (he'd spend one year there and then COME TO SEATTLE, or at least that's what I'd have him do) and the shipping out Jenkins talk also.
Then there's this sick trade...
to the Yanks: Curt Schilling, Jim Edmonds
to the Cardinals: Nick Johnson, Danny Bautista
to the Diamondbacks: Alfonso Soriano, Jeff Weaver
I guess Big George has given up on having Bernie in CF in the Bronx? That's how I take that. And he's covering up for the holes in the rotation. The Cards appear to be covering up for a departure from Tino. The Diamondbacks are getting a guy with pop and speed who strikes out a lot (a degenerative form of which is a bad Mike Cameron) and a guy in Weaver who really needs a change of scenery. Weaver in top form is nasty and eats up innings. And he should have been a Mariner before the Yankees ever got him.
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Bob Finnigan has the after-midnight Times article on the Mariners, about Bill Bavasi's first day as Mariner GM, and there's some material to be had here...
Discouraging quote of the article: "I'd love to be able to tell you I'm a trade guy. But I like young prospects, and I'm always afraid to move them."
UUUGGGGGHHHH!!!
Then the article proceeded to conveniently point out five of Bavasi's biggest moves as flops, desribed as "some rocky times" with the Angels -- the return of Jim Abbott, Damion Easley for Greg Gohr, JT Snow for Allen Watson, the Chili Davis signing, and the Mo Vaughn signing.
The article also says in the Notes section that Tony Attanasio is debunking the talk about seeking $15M for Ichiro.
Also mentioned is yet another sickening possible Schilling-to-the-Yanks deal...
to AZ: Richie Sexson
to NYY: Curt Schilling
to MILW: Nick Johnson, John Patterson
Man, seeing Schilling wearing pinstripes would make me sick, but seeing Sexson in those ugly-ass Arizona uniforms and playing in a park with a damn swimming pool would make me pretty damn sick too.
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