Rios to White Sox
Alex Rios is a White Sock. Straight waiver claim. Toronto gets nothing and likes it.
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Must be the preferable move for Toronto or they wouldn’t have let it happen, right? They must really want out of that contract.
Steel Nick
.744 OPS this year, .798 last year, career high .865.
Lowest salary over the remaining contract is 9.5 million next year. I’d say easily the correct decision
Sadly, for a lot of clubs, this could be decent value. Just not for an $80 million payroll.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
You could make the argument that he’s decent value for an $80M payroll if he’s playing CF every day, which he can (and will, I believe, in Chicago). He’s a +5 win player. His BABIP is just uncharacteristically low this year.
The White Sox got themselves a nice player here.
Not that you disagreed with anything I’ve said here. Just adding to your notion that he’s valuable to a lot of teams.
His babip is low because he’s hitting fewer line drives and more popups than he ever has. His LD% this year is down to 18% versus a career number of 21%, while his IF/FB is 18% for the season compared to 10% for his career. This year could be an anomaly, and he certainly could end up playing up to his contract, but he’s definitely not looking good.
That’s a lot of money now locked up in Peavy and Rios. If they pick up Peavy’s 2013 option that will be 34.5 million on those two players alone that year.
Yea. They have the cash, though. Thome’s contract expires this year (that’s $13M off the books). Contreras’ does as well ($10M). The White Sox hold an option on Dye for next year at $12M, so they can ditch that too if they need. Konerko expires after 2010 ($12M).
I imagine they’ll keep one of Thome/Dye. But they lose all their big contracts either this year or next.
The White Sox continually do things that I think are going to blow up but that work out for them somehow. I am afraid this will be another. In the corners, Rios can be a Gutierrez-like defender.
The White Sox continually do things that I think are going to blow up but that work out for them somehow.
Somehow, like perhaps they have gifted scouts and evaluators?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
It’s more than just scouting guys correctly….though I do like their scouts. But the White Sox are clearly doing things well that can’t easily be quantified
Magic.
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by Joel D on Aug 11, 2009 12:49 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
he obviously won that golden fiddle back in ’05 spring training
by talonk on Aug 11, 2009 3:17 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I keep saying, we may hate the White Sox as an institution, but as individuals, they are entertaining as hell to compete against. Unlike — to pick a team purely at random — the Twins.
by fleerdon on Aug 11, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
I wonder whether the Twins will be less aggravating when they move into a real stadium, and their little brand of StupidBall becomes less effective.
by FredOx on Aug 11, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I prefer to think of it as, like, mini-baseball. Sort of like skeeball, or Travel Connect Four.
by fleerdon on Aug 11, 2009 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Note the position of the ball. Obviously a bunt.
by FredOx on Aug 11, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I’d like for this to be a terrible move for Chicago, but it really isn’t htat bad.
Toronto really makes out here though. Maybe now they have more $ for HalladaY?
This is Victor's home. Victor Jose, you too.
I don’t agree with you. Rios is an excellent player having a bad year.
Why the heck would Halladay agree to an extension now? There’s no reason for him to stick around.
I didn’t like the return for Lee, but at this rate, I don’t know if Toronto is going to get much more for Halladay this offseason than the Indians got for Lee. I think Halladay is either going to test free agency in a year or even demand a trade this winter.
I’m not saying extend Halladay now. I’m saying they now have more money available once the time does come. They’re not only saving money now, they’re saving money through the 2014 season.
Thing is, if the Yankees get involved, they have no chance anyways.
This is Victor's home. Victor Jose, you too.
This is pointless. He’s committed to exploring free agency. The window to extend him is closing, and he’s apparently not interested anymore.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
One of these guys planning on a big Yankees/Red Sox payoff is going to be disappointed eventually. The big-market teams have a lot of money, and pitchers aren’t too durable. But it can’t become a twice-annual occurrence, can it?
I know Wang is hurt, and the Red Sox need more starting pitching, but eventually the supply of pitchers looking for $200 million payouts will exceed the demand of the few teams that can afford such contracts.
There are plenty of reasons for Halladay to stick around. Travis Snider is a big one. They won’t need Rios as much.
If they stick Rios in CF he’ll be worth a lot more to them than in RF, since they’ve got guys like Dewayne Wise and Brian Anderson out there right now. Still too much money, but remember when we were all clamoring for the Tribe to get him a couple of years ago?
*sigh*
well, let’s put it this way. How would everyone like it if this were to happen with Hafner?
My initial response would be that of dissapointment, but in the end, getting rid of such a big contract is a good thing.
You’re not looking at it from the Cleveland.com perspective.
We trade Lee and Vic: How come we couldn’t trade Hafner?! He’s the worst of any of them!!!
Hafner goes 0-4: Can’t we just cut him!!?!?! Worst contract evah! It’s killing this team!!
We waive Hafner and let another team take his contract: We gave him away for nothing?!?!
Steel Nick
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“Right, right. I have a real problem with that.”
by JP_Frost on Aug 11, 2009 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Over the on the Twins board (link), they pick apart the payroll of the White Sox for the next few years.
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