The Winter Meetings Thread

[Clem Fandango]

Reyes, Hanley, Pujols, Stanton, and Morrison would be a pretty [expletive] great start to their lineup though

[ConstableRabbit]

Fun fact:

 

Mike Stanton's given name is Giancarlo Cruz Michael Stanton

[Little Slide Rooter]

Fun fact:

 

Mike Stanton's given name is Giancarlo Cruz Michael Stanton

 

He changed it because he didn't want people to think he's lazy.

[Banedon]

jonmorosi: #Astros will eat some salary to move Carlos Lee, who is better at 1B than OF. #Indians a fit but wary of cost.

 

If for some reason we don't end up with Pujols or Fielder, any interest in Lee at 1B? He's always hit really well at Wrigley. He's only under contract through 2012 and is owed $18.5mil.

[Banedon]

Buster_ESPN: Source: Hanley Ramirez's rep asked the Marlins for a restructured deal. MIA upset with this, will now be looking to trade Hanley

[MWV]

Too bad Hanley is adamant about playing SS.

[davell]

Man, Bedard only got 4.5 mill? That's a guy I wish we had gotten. Good move for the Pirates.

[Yeti]

jonmorosi: #Astros will eat some salary to move Carlos Lee, who is better at 1B than OF. #Indians a fit but wary of cost.

 

If for some reason we don't end up with Pujols or Fielder, any interest in Lee at 1B? He's always hit really well at Wrigley. He's only under contract through 2012 and is owed $18.5mil.

meh, had you suggested this 4-5 years ago i'd say hell yeah! not so much now

[Banedon]

jonmorosi: #Astros will eat some salary to move Carlos Lee, who is better at 1B than OF. #Indians a fit but wary of cost.

 

If for some reason we don't end up with Pujols or Fielder, any interest in Lee at 1B? He's always hit really well at Wrigley. He's only under contract through 2012 and is owed $18.5mil.

meh, had you suggested this 4-5 years ago i'd say hell yeah! not so much now

 

Definitely getting old, but he was 4.6 WAR last season per B-R. Just another option that's out there.

[huff]

Hoyer coming up on MLB network

[Yeti]

Hoyer on hot stove live now

[rawaction]

Too bad Hanley is adamant about playing SS.

 

Not really. Make it work. Move Castro to 2B.

[Guest]

Too bad Hanley is adamant about playing SS.

 

Not really. Make it work. Move Castro to 2B.

 

Can the Cubs afford Headley AND Hanley talent wise?

[Banedon]

Buster_ESPN: Marlins upset with Hanley, because given his subpar year in '11, they were greatly surprised he wants more money to change positions.

[davell]

What's Hoyer saying?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Too bad Hanley is adamant about playing SS.

 

Not really. Make it work. Move Castro to 2B.

 

Can the Cubs afford Headley AND Hanley talent wise?

 

I dont think we can afford Hanley talent wise. I don't think that if Headley is going to cost as much as some thing but Hanley will cost a ton and a lot of teams will be offering packages of top prospects if he's available. However, if we had a chance to trade for Hanley and Headley was going to be a roadblock I'd happily move on from Headley and send the Rockies Tyler Colvin and John Maine for Stewart and let him have 3rd.

[Guest]

Too bad Hanley is adamant about playing SS.

 

Not really. Make it work. Move Castro to 2B.

 

I'm not moving Castro anywhere, especially for a guy who didn't outperform Barney last year. Hanley isn't a fit. He has to play SS, and he's a bad defensive SS who's had some severe consistency problems at the plate. If it works to be a 3rd team in a Hanley deal, then do that. But otherwise it's not going to be worth it.

[Yeti]

What's Hoyer saying?

need for organizational depth and long term assets...side stepped a question about fielder, some bs about Z and about being back with theo

[Banedon]

The contradiction meetings continue:

 

Ken_Rosenthal: #Marlins prez Samson: Hanley did not ask for contract to be restructured. Hanley not getting traded. Hanley critical part of team

[MWV]

General FA question: Is there still a team limit on type A FA signings under the new CBA? If so, I imagine the Marlins are getting close to it.

[KingCubsFan]

I'm not moving Castro anywhere, especially for a guy who didn't outperform Barney last year. Hanley isn't a fit. He has to play SS, and he's a bad defensive SS who's had some severe consistency problems at the plate. If it works to be a 3rd team in a Hanley deal, then do that. But otherwise it's not going to be worth it.

How exactly? Defensively?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not moving Castro anywhere, especially for a guy who didn't outperform Barney last year. Hanley isn't a fit. He has to play SS, and he's a bad defensive SS who's had some severe consistency problems at the plate. If it works to be a 3rd team in a Hanley deal, then do that. But otherwise it's not going to be worth it.

How exactly? Defensively?

 

.243 .333 .379

.276 .313 .353

 

When you throw in defense, if Ramirez was better, it can't be by much.

[Guest]

I'm not moving Castro anywhere, especially for a guy who didn't outperform Barney last year. Hanley isn't a fit. He has to play SS, and he's a bad defensive SS who's had some severe consistency problems at the plate. If it works to be a 3rd team in a Hanley deal, then do that. But otherwise it's not going to be worth it.

How exactly? Defensively?

 

Overall. Ramirez put up a 1.3 fWAR and 0.5 bWAR to Barney's 2.2 fWAR and 1.0 bWAR.

[Tracer Bullet]

We need to lock up Barney!

 

WTF happened to ramirez?

[Guest]

We need to lock up Barney!

 

WTF happened to ramirez?

He was hurt on and off for a good % of the year, I believe