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  1. burnzy24
    Absolutely. It would be different if Axford was making $10 million a year but we have him at league minimum. We probably have the best 8th Inning RP in baseball right now and basically have two elite closers pitching back to back in the 8th and 9th. K-Rod is also back-up in case Axford goes Turnbow on us (knock on wood). If K-Rod was closing and Axford pitched the 8th, K-Rod for roughly $10 million for only 1 year is not a bad price at all. He isn't locked up long term and still has some trading value in case we decide to move him.
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    I think the odds are he will be traded. The "we don't need to trade him" talk by Doug reminds me an awful lot of the Lyle Overbay/ Prince Fielder situation a few years back.
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    Well Boras obviously couldn't make this argument to the half dozen or more teams that actaully needed a closer so why should he be successful at arbitration. If I'm K-Rod after I would have accepted arbitration and I would have fired Boras immediately for not doing his job. K-Rod is only 29 and one of the more successful closers in recent history, teams should have been throwing money at him. Now, if K-Rod stays with the Brewers, he will be a set up man. The only way K-Rod is going to get any big pay day is if he is closing, not setting up for Axford, and if teams didn't want to pay him what he thought he was worth this year they for sure won't next year if he hasn't been closing in a year and a half. If K-Rod was going to take any 1 year deal, it should have been in the Heath Bell range or less in a situation where he is guaranteed to be the closer. That way he can prove he can still close effectively and would be more likely to have next year's Angels or Marlins give him another long term deal. Boras is probably letting K-Rod take a few million more this year at the expense of many more millions over his next contract.
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    I remember reading early on that they said Fielder was not plan B if Pujols left. They already have Berkman who can play 1B (and should rather that in the OF).
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    The Cardinals will still be good w/out him, but lets not kid ourselves, you can't lose the best player in baseball and the best manager in the game and not take a significant step back . The Cards are a much different team w/out him and TLR.. Carptenter is 36 and will start to decline fast, Wainwright is 30 and coming off Tommy John, and Holliday is 31 and had some nagging injuries last year. So if you take last year's WS team who needed a magical end of the season to even get into the playoffs, subtract TLR and Pujols, add Matheny (who has no little to no managing experiance) and give them Wainright back, I don't see them running away with the division. The Cards are also putting a good amount of stock in the fact that the break-out year for the 28 year old Freese wasn't a fluke and that Berkman won't come back down to earth.
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    I'd much rather have Saito than Loe. I also think it would be better for the organization to try to put Estrada in the minors as a starter, a position where he has had success, than to keep putting him in the LR role where he has much less success. Why he isn't non-tendering Loe is a mystery to me, but then again, alot of Melvin's bullpen moves have been puzzling to me lately,
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    Here is another source saying that the Nationals are not interested in Fielder. So who does this leave, the maybe the Mariners, Toronto and....? No teams seem to be seriously pursuing him at the moment and the number of suitors seems to be getting smaller and smaller every. If Pujols is getting offers in the $22-23 million/ year would it be out of the realm for Fielder to have to settle for $20 million/ year? What is becoming more likely to happen is Prince accepts arbitration and gives it another shot next year when the Dodgers get out of their financial mess. Guess we find out in two days..
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    The Cubs seem to be focusing on Pujols for the moment. Apparently they have offered more money per year, but less years than the Cards. I can see them going the same route with Fielder should they fail to land Pujols. I actually get the suspicion that the Cubs don't really want much to do with Fielder, especially if his asking price does not come down.
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    Nothing like a team with a great young SS that is signed through 2014 going out and spending $17 million a year for 6 years for another SS.
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    Well cross Miami off for Fielder and Pujols if this goes through. Also, will Hanley go to 3b or force his way out of Miami? He is probably not a happy camper right now.
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    Sorry to trouble you but I am in grad school and have had Thursday night classes this semester. There are probably a half dozen shows that I would love to watch but that just isn't in the cards.
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    I was thinking about this yesterday. To Boras, the Brewers have been the last option for Prince, so the fact he is publicly trying the get the Brewers into the fold this early tells me he seriously overvalued the market for Fielder.
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    I have read that the Cards initially offered 9 years but under $200 million and won't change their offer unless someone goes above it. The Marlin's offer seems more than a marketing ploy.
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    Since this has been a Parks and Rec and Community discussion I will post this here. Community will be replacedmid season with 30 Rock. I haven't watched it in a while but how NBC can cancel Community over Whitney is very confusing. Whitney may be the worst show on television. But then again after the Conan debacle, nothing at that network surprises me anymore.
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    ESPN has a great article from Jason Stark about Fielder and Pujols as free agents. Here is an exerpt that I found the most interesting: "Realistically," one agent wondered, "how could a National League team give a guy with a body like that seven or eight years? I think he could get five years at good money from a National League team, but not seven or eight." One baseball executive echoed those sentiments, and not just because of Prince's svelte physique. The other big factor here: "His genes." "Even though he's only 27, which is super young for a guy entering free agency, you have to look beyond that," the exec said. "Anybody who cites his age should also look at his dad." That would be Cecil Fielder, another wide-bodied bopper whose aging pattern could be very instructive for teams looking hard at Prince. Cecil hit 51 homers at age 26 and 44 at age 27 and then never hit 40 again. He also ceased to be a full-time first baseman after 30, never playing more than 80 games in the field in any of his final four seasons. And he was done for good after 34.
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    What teams need closers yet? I wonder if the market for K-Rod will even be that strong.
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    If it comes down to the Brewers being the only interested team in Sheets for a NRI, I think Sheets would get over whatever slight he felt the team was responsible for. Maybe at that time he considered the bridge burned, but I doubt Sheets, at the age of 33, would hold such a grudge that he would rather retire than pitch for the Brewers in the majors again. With his injury history, it may just come to this.
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    We are. Sheets has a ton of talent, is still relatively young at 33, and has had some arm troubles lately. He is probably done as a starter but could potentially thrive in a late-inning bullpen role. If he signs for a low price and it works great, if not, oh well. I could care less if he was an ex-Brewer or not, he could be a low risk high reward type of guy and they are exactly the types of players the team should be looking at. You seem like you would be upset even if the Brewers offered him a minor league deal.
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    I think these projections are a good example of why Bowden works for ESPN and is not a GM anymore. I can't see Reyes getting 6 years, Pena getting 2/$17, or why the Brewers would pay $5 million on aa starting pitcher in a rotation that is basically set. I also think Epstein is smart enough to seek pitching first and not spend a ton of money on Prince, and the Dodgers won't be in a position to spend any money until their ownership situation is resolved. By that time someone will have already have signed Prince.
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    With his arm troubles he might be best used in the bullpen somewhere. Maybe taking K-Rod's spot?
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    The Mets have already publicly stated that they are going to let other teams set the market for Reyes, which is GM speak for "We are going to let other teams overpay for you." My guess on the 10 free agents 1. Pujols- Rangers 2. Fielder- Mariners 3. Reyes- Giants 4. CJ Wilson- Yankees 5. Edwin Jackson- Nationals 6. Rollins- Phillies 7. Ramirez- Angels 8. Beltran- Giants 9. Palpelbon-Red Sox 10. Ortiz- Blue Jays
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    He is 29, not 40. Yes its unrealistic for people to believe that he should have the same speed now as he was when he broke in the league, but its astounding how much slower he has gotten for a guy who has had no major knee or ankle injuries. Here is an article from 2007 where it states that Corey had a 6.59 60-yard dash, the fastest on the team. Here is an article from this year where Corey states hopes for a 7.5 yard dash time. This article states that most MLB teams consider a 6.7-6.9 time is that of an average runner in the league. So we are to believe that Corey Hart goes from the fastest man on the team, to a person who is considered far below average 4 years later because of age? In the second article, Hart claims that the difference is because of his gain in weight, but he is 6'6 and 235 which isn't alot for his frame. However, in that 2nd article I posted, Hart seems to admits that he focuses on far more on weight training than speed.
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    The bigger question is would Wolf want him back there since Kottaras was his "personal catcher."
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    This has got to have some bearing on Pujol's upcoming decision. I know Pujols was very fond of La Russa so Tony not coming back probably increases the odds that he goes someplace else.
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