Er du gal, der sker ting og sager i MLB's off season. Glæder mig endnu vildere når sæsonen starter.
I må lige komme med en update over de forskellige trades og signinger.
Indtil videre, de store signnings.
Robinson Cano - Seattle Mariners
Carlos Bertran - New York Yankees
Jacoby Ellsbury - New York Yankees
Brian McCann - New York Yankees
Jhonny Peralta - St. Louis Cardinals
Jarrod Saltalamacchia - Florida Marlins
Prince Fielder - Texas Rangers
Ian Kinsler - Detroit Tigers
Doug Fister - Washington Nationals
Norichika Aoki - Kansas City
Dexter Fowler - Houston Astros (WTF?)
Jemile Weeks - Baltimore Orioles
Jim Johnson - Milwaukke Brewers
David Freese - Los Angeles Angels
Peter Bourjos - St. Louis Cardinals
Jason Vargas - Kansas City Royals
Curtis Granderson - New York Mets
De store tilgængelig Free Agents:
Shin-Soo Choo
Matt Garza
A.J. Burnett
Nelson Cruz
Ervin Santana
Ubaldo Jimenez
Bronson Arroyo
MLB offseason
Yankees satser, og Cardinals .33 RISP var
åbenbart heller ikke godt nok..
Yankees skal jo også satse, da de ikke kom på playoff.
Bertran var jo FA, derfor var det ikke helt op til Cardinals.
Han er nok stadig vildt dyr i drift, Ellsbury ligner en god signing, han var måske lidt langt nede i hierarkiet i Boston.
Spændende om Fielder bliver designated hitter i Texas, det kan blive potent, med gode baserunners som Andrus og Martin.
Stadig Billigere end Cano, så er det også kun 3 år.
Ellsbury er den signing jeg synes bedst af New York Yankees.
Med så mange år igen, tvivler jeg på at Fielder bliver DH. Han kommer vel til at spille 1. base. og Profar overtager Kinsler's plads.
Synes Beltran er den største MVP på listen, hans latterlige playoffstats taler for sig selv.
Kan Yankees pitche nogenlunde som i sidste sæson, selv uden Sandman, kan jeg ikke se nogen komme i vejen for dem.
Cano er da offseasons største spiller. Bertran er 36 år.
Men jeg kan stadig bedst lide Ellsbury signing.
Nogen bud på hvem der skal spille 2nd base på Yankees?
Deres outfield er ret crowded, muligvis trade dem der skal trades mod en 2nd baseman.
Vernon Wells 34 $24.6M
Jacoby Ellsbury 30 $21.9M*
Alfonso Soriano 37 $19M
Carlos Beltran 36 $15M*
Ichiro Suzuki 40 $6.5M
Brett Gardner 30 $2.85M **
Jeg glæder mig også helt vildt til den nye sæson efter alle de signinger og trades, og Winter Meetings starter først i morgen! Det kan blive en af de vildeste sæsoner i mange år.
Nu kan jeg se du allerede har nævnt de fleste store handler som har været indtil videre, men kan da lige supplere med en lille håndfuld ekstra:
A.J. Pierzynski – Boston Red Sox
Joe Nathan – Detroit Tigers
Skip Schumaker – Cincinnati Reds
Josh Johnson – San Diego Padres
Nick Punto – A’s
Jose Abreu – Chicago White Sox (En af de spillere jeg glæder mig mest til, at følge den kommende sæson.)
Andre interessante free agents:
Kendrys Morales
Lyle Overbay
Kevin Youkilis
Carlos Pena
Omar Infante
Stephen Drew
Juan Uribe
Michael Young
Raul Ibanez
Michael Morse
Delmon Young
Bartolo Colon
Roy Halladay
Paul Maholm
Roy Oswalt
Johan Santana
Masahiro Tanaka(Har kontrakt med Japanske Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagle, men er i løbet af efteråret blevet rygtet til flere MLB hold. Bl.a. New York Yankees)
Chien-Ming Wang
Barry Zito
John Axford
Joel Hanrahan
Chris Perez
Joba Chamberlain
Carlos Marmol
Jose Valverde
Jeg ved godt nogle af de nævnte nok er langt fra fordums styrke. Derudover har flere på listen også været alvorlig skadet. Men har skrevet dem på alligevel.
Derudover læste jeg i går, at Jayson Stark(fra ESPN) havde hørt rygter om, at Rays ville være interesseret i at trade Price i en handel som skulle være på størrelse med Herschel Walker trade.
Ud fra de rygter der er, så tyder meget på Yankees startende 2nd base bliver Omar Infante, også Kelly Johnson som backup. Derudover kan Alfonso Soriano også spiller 2nd base.
Roy Halladay har på første dagen af Winter Meetings underskrevet en kontrakt på en dag med Toronto, så han kan trække sig tilbage som en Blue Jay. En skam han fik ødelagt de sidste år af hans karriere med en skulderskade.
Jamen det jo for vildt hvis de får Brndon Philips, kilde: mlb.com!!
Har ikke lige tid ti at kommentere yderligere.. men kan bare mærke at dagene til opening dag kommer til at g langsomt!
Damm
Suddenly, a Texas lineup that looked so vulnerable last season could line up this way:
Shin-Soo Choo, LF.
Elvis Andrus, SS.
Adrian Beltre, 3B.
Prince Fielder, 1B.
Alex Rios, RF.
Mitch Moreland, DH.
Geovany Soto, C.
Jurickson Profar, 2B.
Leonys Martin, CF.
Fremragende forklaret som jeg lige vil dele med jer.
what I do not understand
#1 ineverwinbutitry 12/21/13 3:55 AM
why does baseball get huge tv contracts when the national ratings get dominated by the nfl and college football and the nba?
I think the networks are run by old guys that love there baseball because the televsion contracts make no sense in comparison to what ratings they do.
I am not trying to bag on baseball but I do not get why these mlb players get huge 3 year deals past theirprime.
If ocho cinco or TO could bat 270 with 19 hr an mlb team would sign them to a 3 year 36mil deal.
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KeyElement 12/21/13 8:54 AM
Your first problem is oversimplification, you do not have a Ford/Chevy/Dodge comparison here. It is more like Apples, Broccoli and Pork Chops. You may find Ford/Chevy/Dodge in an auto mall for marketing purposes, but in the supermarket you find apples and broccoli in the produce department, separated slightly between fruits and vegetables, while pork chops are found in the meat department, The apples were displayed at room temperature, the broccoli slightly cooled, and the pork chops deeply cooled in a meat case as well as a completely separate department. Each sport has found its own marketing "niche". The NFL has national TV markets because it is played (basically) only one day a week and many of the start times are parallel, not offset for the convenience of the viewer. Baseball has nine times as many games spread over seven days with a great deal of variance in start times, each aimed at its own probable market for maximum saturation.
This is what television executives understand about sports marketing that you do not. They do not put shows on television because that is what they want to see, but rather because the programs broadcast will draw viewers and hence, advertising revenue. Television is far too competitive an industry to indulge oneself in producing what it chooses to watch rather than what the public will buy.
As for the money, that too is an entirely different thing right from its source to its distribution. You are not an insider in either the sports or entertainment industries and have no conception of how revenue is acquired or implemented. National ratings will always favor the NFL, because that is its niche, while regional marketing highly favors baseball. The Dodgers got a regional contract last year amounting to seven billion dollars over the course of its life, and that is to a team that has to share its potential market with the Angels, and to a lesser extent, the Padres, Giants and A's.
Comparing Ocho Cinco or T.O. to an MLB player on a salary basis is also an exercise in futility. Completely different sports and skill requirements, as well as completely different industries with completely different marketing and revenue restraints.
Just to show how silly and irrelevant cross-sport comparisons can be to the uninitiated amateur outsider, consider this. At the peak of their popularity the Toronto Blue Jays drew 4 million live fans in back-to-back seasons. For an NFL team to do that, with eight home games per season, they would have to draw 500,000 fans per game. That, of course is patently ridiculous, but no more so than comparing different forms of entertainment, revenue accumulation, and revenue distribution from an outsiders perspective. We (and I do mean ALL of us) are simply not part of the equation. Try to pick a winner and enjoy the game, that is what you are qualified to do.
BOL
Årh dagene går fandme langsomt til..
Wow Yankees..
Ellsbury er den stoerste failsigning meget laenge, IMO. De gav ham 153 mil. Taenk over det.
De har lige signet Tanaka.
Hugging Gun skrev:
Wow Yankees..
Jeg klager ikke. ;-)
Dog har jeg kun set ham til World Baseball Classic i 2013, og der var han ikke imponerende. Men alle kan jo have en dårlig dag eller periode.
24-0 1.27 era siger vel alt selvom det var i NPB.
pokerheh skrev:
Ellsbury er den stoerste failsigning meget laenge, IMO. De gav ham 153 mil. Taenk over det.
Helt enig. Jeg synes også det er vildt, at Yankees har smidt så mange penge efter ham. Især med de skader han har haft de senere år. Jeg havde dog hellere set de havde forlænget med Granderson. Men når det så er sagt, så er han bestemt en forstærkning, også det ellers bare håbe han kan holde sig skadesfri.
Hugging Gun skrev:
24-0 1.27 era siger vel alt selvom det var i NPB.
Jeg skriver jo også kun, at de få gange jeg har set ham var han ikke ligefrem imponerende. Men man kan jo heller ikke vurdere en ud fra 3-4 kampe :-) Men det klart med de stats, samt ca. 1/3 af alle MLB klubberne har været interesseret i ham. Så det ikke tosset, at Yankees fik ham på en syv årig kontrakt.
5 dage til springtraining....
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