Archive for Free Agents
Scott Boras says Oliver Perez deserves a huge payday. Does he?
Randy Johnson’s agent is talking about San Francisco, but if he’s being honest, there is a lot of interest in the Big Unit right now: Randy Johnson is being wooed by both Bay Area teams. He seems to prefer the Giants. “Randy’s really interested,” one of his agents, Barry Meister, said Thursday, the final day […]
Jeez, you take two hours to write up a legal brief, and the whole world goes and gets itself in a hurry: CC Sabathia is not going to play on the West Coast. He is not going to play in the National League. CC Sabathia is going to be a Yankee, The Post has learned […]
The Merc’s Andrew Baggarly is reporting — well, he’s not really reporting as much as passing along the rumor — that CC Sabathia has turned down the Yankees’ offer and that the Giants are slowly entering the picture: It’s been confirmed to me that the Giants had discussions with CC Sabathia’s camp last night, and […]
We knew it was going to happen, but details are now emerging: Considered by many the top reliever on the free-agent market, Rodriguez saved 62 games for Anaheim last season. The Angels offered just more than $30 million over three years to retain the 26-year-old right-hander . . . . . . The three-time All-Star […]
As the Winter Meetings get underway in Las Vegas, I can’t help but think how much fun it would be to sit in the Petrossian Bar with a cell phone up to my ear and exclaim loudly: “So it’s six years and $150M for Manny? This is confirmed? Wow. Who would have thunk that Theo […]
A couple of weeks ago I went on a bit about the Pirates releasing former first rounder John Van Benschoten. Today Van Benschoten has a new job: Right-hander John Van Benschoten, who was taken by the Pirates with the eighth overall pick in the 2001 First-Year Player Draft, has signed a Minor League deal with […]
Jason at IIATMS lists a number of reasons why anxious Yankee watchers should just calm the heck down about the lack of progress on the Sabathia-to-New York front. Perhaps the best one: The Yanks are not the destination they were in 2000, 2001, 2002, when they were making regular World Series appearances. The team is […]
I’m two days late on this, but tHeMARksMiTh has a really good post up about the economy’s effects (and potential effects) on baseball. One thought that appeals to my inner conspiracy theorist: Is this the perfect time for collusion? . . . think about it. If you were to collude to really drop players’ salaries, […]
WaPo’s Dave Sheinin notes that Frank Howard is out of a job and makes a pitch for the Nationals to do something about it: At 72 years old, Howard is, in fact, a free agent, having been let go recently by the New York Yankees, for whom he had been working as a professional scout. […]