What about Lowell? The Red Sox only picked up Lowell because they had to pick up his salary to get Beckett as part of the deal. I would expect Marte to get every chance to win the job with Lowell backing him up.
Naturally, since the Cardinals are having their first bad offseason in about a decade, the White Sox are running around plugging in good players for total crap. Marte is not a good pitcher at all. Good job by the Sox to cash in on him having his first-ever half decent year. OT: Remember Marte walking Walker with the bases loaded to complete a Cubs sweep of the Sox at Wrigley in 04? :D
I'm liking Walt Jocketty more and more. BTW, if Miles and Bigbie go from crap in Coors to all-star in Busch, that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, would prove that God is a Cardinals fan.
He's a decent ballplayer and could be great someday. But he's not as good right now as people say he is. He finished ahead of Jonny Gomes in the Rookie of the Year voting even though Gomes had him beat in pretty much every category except for playing time and team he played for.
Looking at the Soriano deal, we could probably get Bowden to ship us Livan, a decent OF and a PTBNL for Wood if we could get Kerry to waive his NTC. :lol:
good to know i'm not the only person who physically damaged something when that happened. i shattered a glass at a bar. oops. Thankfully, that happened to be the day I came home from my first year of college, so I missed that game.
Is this the next move? Benson isn't great, but the Rangers would basically be giving the Mets nothing and he'd be an upgrade to the pitching staff. Texas could be pretty good before too long if they keep this up.
This WAS a salary dump for the Rangers. Soriano is going to make something like 10 million if I've read correctly. And yet the Rangers still got, by FAR, the better of the deal.
Thanks Jon! Do you happen to know why Saturday WGN games are no longer automatics to be on the Superstation? The Pistons game on the 3rd and the Wizards game this Saturday were/are not Superstation telecasts.
They're lucky no one else tried to swoop in behind their back and snatch him up. He had a very good year last year, be interesting to see if he can keep it going in 06.
The reasons seem to be related to defense, but I'm not convinced. Either Walker did something to piss off Hendry or Jim is really just so stupid that he doesn't see that Walker is a very valuable player to have. My bet's on the former.