Saturday, December 06, 2003
ANOTHER TEJADA LINK
Luckily the Mariner blogosphere is slow today, so I've got an ego boost coming to me by being the first one to link this up.
This here is an article from the SF Chronicle about the Tejada situation.
Some quotes that caught my eye...
"...the Mariners' reported offer was smaller than Jermaine Dye's contract of three years and $32 million..."
Ouch. Now in hindsight, they probably thought he'd heal from the tibia fracture a little better (they got him on July 25th of 2001 in the KC-OAK-COL three-way deal, he got the ball off his tibia in the ALCS, then they signed him to the ridiculous contract), but was Jermaine Dye EVER worth over $10M per year? I know he was good a couple years ago, but I never thought he was THAT good.
and...
"It can't sit well with A's fans that two possible suitors are division rivals (Angels and Mariners)."
I'd have to say the last time I felt this feeling (and it didn't come through anyway) was a mere four winters ago, when Gillick had just come aboard the Good Ship Mariner and the first big thing he had to deal with was unloading Ken Griffey Jr. The deal that almost went down (at least that's what I was led to believe) was Griffey to Anaheim for Jim Edmonds. Can you guess what I thought of every time Mike Cameron struck out in a key situation or swung at a pitch two feet out of the strike zone on a two-strike count? You're damn right I thought of Jim Edmonds being the power lefty bat that would come into the Safe and just put a ton of rainmakers into the first 5 rows of rightfield seats...Sure, if everything held up, the Mariners would have been facing Junior and Alex in the same division, but...the Mariners would have friggin had Jim Edmonds! And the offensive firepower he had (and still does) would have more than made up for the miniscule defensive difference between him and Cam. In the winter of 1999-2000, Jim Edmonds had won two Gold Gloves. He now has six Gold Gloves.
This here is an article from the SF Chronicle about the Tejada situation.
Some quotes that caught my eye...
"...the Mariners' reported offer was smaller than Jermaine Dye's contract of three years and $32 million..."
Ouch. Now in hindsight, they probably thought he'd heal from the tibia fracture a little better (they got him on July 25th of 2001 in the KC-OAK-COL three-way deal, he got the ball off his tibia in the ALCS, then they signed him to the ridiculous contract), but was Jermaine Dye EVER worth over $10M per year? I know he was good a couple years ago, but I never thought he was THAT good.
and...
"It can't sit well with A's fans that two possible suitors are division rivals (Angels and Mariners)."
I'd have to say the last time I felt this feeling (and it didn't come through anyway) was a mere four winters ago, when Gillick had just come aboard the Good Ship Mariner and the first big thing he had to deal with was unloading Ken Griffey Jr. The deal that almost went down (at least that's what I was led to believe) was Griffey to Anaheim for Jim Edmonds. Can you guess what I thought of every time Mike Cameron struck out in a key situation or swung at a pitch two feet out of the strike zone on a two-strike count? You're damn right I thought of Jim Edmonds being the power lefty bat that would come into the Safe and just put a ton of rainmakers into the first 5 rows of rightfield seats...Sure, if everything held up, the Mariners would have been facing Junior and Alex in the same division, but...the Mariners would have friggin had Jim Edmonds! And the offensive firepower he had (and still does) would have more than made up for the miniscule defensive difference between him and Cam. In the winter of 1999-2000, Jim Edmonds had won two Gold Gloves. He now has six Gold Gloves.
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