Thursday, December 11, 2003
FINNIGAN NEEDED SOME MATERIAL
Here's Bob Finnigan blowing some more smoke up our bums, this time in the form of a possible Vlad Guerrero signing.
Finnigan goes through a scenario in which the Mariners could possibly clear money for Guerrero if the Tejada thing falls through, but the whole scenario goes to crap assuming Hickey's article (Randy Winn signed) is true.
Basically Finnigan is blowing smoke, and I only learned a couple things from the article -- (1) Vlad and Tejada share the same agent, (2) their agent is no friend of Peter Angelos, and (3) Gillick also visited Vlad Guerrero when he went to the Dominican. Number 2 there is good for the Mariners if it possibly eliminates another suitor for Tejada.
As for Vlad...you don't sign Ibanez, and you sure as hell don't re-sign Winn if you're even thinking about making an offer to Vlad.
Finnigan goes through a scenario in which the Mariners could possibly clear money for Guerrero if the Tejada thing falls through, but the whole scenario goes to crap assuming Hickey's article (Randy Winn signed) is true.
Basically Finnigan is blowing smoke, and I only learned a couple things from the article -- (1) Vlad and Tejada share the same agent, (2) their agent is no friend of Peter Angelos, and (3) Gillick also visited Vlad Guerrero when he went to the Dominican. Number 2 there is good for the Mariners if it possibly eliminates another suitor for Tejada.
As for Vlad...you don't sign Ibanez, and you sure as hell don't re-sign Winn if you're even thinking about making an offer to Vlad.
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