Comments on: Free Agent Filing Begins

By: billfer

billfer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:14:29 +0000

It’s a picture I snapped, and then I used The Gimp photo editing software to do the color/b&w effect.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:58:55 +0000

It’s cool. The players are in color and the crowd is black and white. How’d you do that?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:14:44 +0000

That’s Polly and Everett. I thought you were talking about the picturein the other post with the guy stretching his arm out.

By: billfer

billfer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:05:15 +0000

I’m just wondering why nobody has commented on the coolness of the picture

By: TSE

TSE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:19 +0000

But Carlos Gomez sucks. so they still need a CF. They might be better off with Raburn as a CF before Gomez.

By: Mark in Chicago

Mark in Chicago — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:21:51 +0000

Brewers needed a CF, so I’m not sure how the Tigers could have gotten this deal done. The only other option might have been a starting pitcher, but the Tigers don’t have any that the Brewers would want (that we would trade).

It’s frustrating to see Hardy go to a rival, but I don’t see what we could have done differently.

By: Mike Rogers

Mike Rogers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:43 +0000

Once again, another team making a move that the Tigers should’ve pursued — though I’m not sure who we could’ve given that would’ve helped the Brewers immediately like Carlos Gomez. Still, we could’ve given up Wilkin Ramirez + someone else for him and been just fine. Sucks.

By: RPS

RPS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:33:03 +0000

Seems a little weird. Unless Carlos Gomez was a guy the Brewers specifically love for some reason, I can’t believe they wouldn’t have been able to get a better player back.

With Hardy gone, a guy I like to be next year’s SS is Mike Aviles. He was a 4+ win player in his only full season, but the Royals got a relatively expensive SS while he was injured, and would seem to not need/like him.

The Royals have already shown a willingness to trade within the division. Their front office is bad. Maybe a package of Thames and, say, Fien? Maybe just Thames? Dolsi and Iorg? The remains of Matt Anderson? They did give up actual honest-to-god baseball players for Yuniesky, so all things are possible. Aviles is a guy who has a huge ceiling and an injury problem. If he can be bought low on, I’d be all over it.

If not him, I’d look at Reid Brignac or Brandon Wood. I’m sure they cost a whole lot more than Aviles, though.

By: TSE

TSE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:33:27 +0000

Wow, yeah great deal for the Twins. That sucks. Hardy is a better SS in my mind than ANY FA SS out there. The only guy I like more than him is Tejada, but Tejada is so much more expensive and older and clearly out of our price range. Plus there’s no guarantee he will be available for free w/o losing draft picks.

Any way you slice it, Hardy is definitely the best SS acquisition possible if you grouped him with ALL SS FAs and didn’t count other SSs that might be available via trade. I have a hard time believing that there is any other SS out there for trade that can be had for practically nothing that is as good as Hardy is. Great job by the Twins.

By: Chauncey

Chauncey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:23 +0000

Considering that the Twins gave up very little to get Hardy, this definitely looks like a great deal for them.

By: Lee Panas

Lee Panas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:25:21 +0000

I was hoping the Tigers would get Hardy so I’m not happy that the Twins got him. Hardy will probably be comeback player of the year now that he’s with the Twins.

By: TSE

TSE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:32:01 +0000

I like the deal for KC. None of these 3 players have proven to be highly attractive, so the cost savings is the best part of the deal.

By: Andre in Chi

Andre in Chi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:01:53 +0000

**: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....e-sox.html

looks official