Lieberthal, Ohka, Foulke, Weathers...today's rumors

[splitterpfj]

www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers29nov29,1,5111005.story?coll=la-headlines-sports

 

I didn't see the need for links to every one of these because most of them are just a sentence or two, but...

 

Pittsburgh is after Ohka

Cleveland is after Foulke

Cincinnati is after Weathers

[pogokat]

we're going to get a second round sandwich pick for ohka, right?

[splitterpfj]

Yes, and assuming those picks are awarded based on last year's records, it should be among the first few of these picks.

[billyhallfan]

Why would Pittsburgh want Ohka? Maybe to pitch out of the pen, but they have some really good young guys to build around, I can't imagine how he would actually help them, and he can't really be much of a leader either since he isn't really fluent in english.

[PeaveyFury]

You'd have to think that if we really wanted Ohka back, that we could probably beat out the Pirates if we wanted to.

[aracko]

I thought KC was going to scoop up Okha for sure.

[splitterpfj]

I agree Peavey, I think there are several other teams looking at Tomo too. If he does end up in Pittsburgh, I'll assume the Brewers showed no interest.

[endaround]

Sandwich picks are based upon the player's rating. So its not going to be anything that great.

[PeaveyFury]

Sandwich picks are based upon the player's rating.

 

According to the old system (and colby), that's not true, unless it was specifically changed in the new CBA:

 

as long as the compensatory pick system in the sandwich round remains the same (meaning the worst teams get the highest pick, cycling through all of the teams one-by-one before starting over again for teams with mulitple comp picks), the Brewers could get the 5th pick in the sandwich long assuming Type B free agent Tomo Ohka signs elsewhere....

 

So, as long as these rules haven't changed, the Brewers could be looking at the 7th and the 35th overall picks next June, and exciting situation that we haven't seen the Brewers have in quite some time.

[splitterpfj]

Who cares if the pick for Ohka is lower than we think, it's still a pick before the start of round two....what's not to like?

 

Being a team that HAS TO grow most of its own talent, I'll take a couple of these every year forever please.

[endaround]

In Keith Law's ESPN blog he went through the new Free Agent compensation process. The key quote:

 

Quote:

---

The picks in the sandwich round are ordered by the Elias ratings on the free agents, so a club that lost the top-rated free agent to sign with a new club (currently San Francisco for Moises Alou) gets the first pick in that supplemental round.

---

 

Law also said that 2nd round picks are likely going to be poor this year because they could easily end up being the 100th person chosen due to a large supplemental round which will shrink somewhat in the future as the amount of players eligible for compensation shrinks next season.

[hawing]

Why would Pittsburgh want Ohka?

 

To continue their domination of the Brewers with help from ex-Brewers? (i.e. to irk me?)

[JohnBriggs12]

"Why would Pittsburgh want Ohka"?

 

To replace Victor Santos of course. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

And to irk hawing and the rest of us too.