MLBTR's Bad Contract Swap Meet
Brew Crew Ball —
... This could be one of my all time favorite MLBTR posts. Tim Dierkes scoured all of baseball's contracts and cribbed together the worst of the worst, the contracts any GM would love to get rid of. Happily, only ...
Trading Rowand Might Be An Option
The Giants Baseball Blog- A San Francisco Giants Blog and Fan Website —
MLBTradeRumors.com posted and interesting piece today regarding the different players around baseball that are being vastly overpaid. After looking at the list, it makes me feel a little bit better about the Rowand, Renteria and Zito contract disasters, and it also got me thinking of how to possibly get one of these guys, most likely Rowand, off the Giants hands. ...
Bad Contracts, Milton Bradley and Other Cub Related Links
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog —
... - Speaking of Bradley, he makes MLBTR's list of bad contracts along with Soriano and Aaron Miles. All the hype to date has been that the Cubs will have to take on one of those (or something similar) to move Bradley. ...
10/29 - Winter School
Over the Monster —
... of this stuff needs to be spread; this time it's a reminder not to throw stones while living in glass houses.
That should hold y'all over for a while. If you have a particularly voracious appetite for links, there's some interesting hot stove ideas after the jump.
Jorge Cantu May Be Viable Option For Red Sox Infield Corners Rotation - NESN.com
Fresh idea. Any thoughts?
Trade Market: First Basemen - MLBTradeRumors.com
Bad Contract Swap Meet - MLBTradeRumors.com
Not quite sure I'd lump Papi ...
Thursday's Frosty Mug
Brew Crew Ball —
... MLB Trade Rumors' Bad Contract Swap Meet. That's a good idea, but this one would be better TV: Dave Cameron of FanGraphs proposes the ...
Idea: Bad Contract for Bad Contract
MetsBlog.com —
Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors lists 30 bad contracts from around MLB, including Oliver Perez, and the $24 million he is due over the next two seasons.
Dierkes writes, “Got a bad contract on your hands? Maybe you can swap it for another team’s problem. I’ll list the bad contracts, you connect the dots.”
…i wonder if the Mets will consider signing a free-agent like, say, Randy Wolf or Jon Garland, to a one– or two-year deal, while trading perez for one of dierkes’s bad ...
Crown Gems: Teahen, Tower, Swap, Transactions, and More
Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog —
... evaluate how well the Royals match up with Colorado in terms of working out a trade, but Smith definitely fits my offseason plan. As far as Jed Lowrie goes, well, he’s better than the current options the Royals have, but we all know that isn’t saying much. If Dayton is going to make a move for a SS prospect, I’d like him to aim a little higher than Lowrie. If Jed is the best they can do, then like a deal for Kennedy, my reaction would be based on what they give up to get him. The Bad Contract Swap Meet provides a silver lining for Royals’ fans. The team only has 2 ...
Bad contracts to swap
Angels blog —
One way to exise Gary Matthews, Jr. would be a bad-contract swap, like when the Angels traded Steve Finley for Edgardo Alfonzo in 2005. MLB Trade Rumors helpfully lists the contracts teams might be eager to unload . Let’s subtract from each contract the $23 million still owed to Matthews and ask whether the player would be worth acquiring at that adjusted price. For instance, Aaron Rowand is owed $36 million over the next three years. If the teams swapped, the Angels would have Rowand for three years at an adjusted total of $13 million. Would you want Aaron Rowand at that cost? ...
