msn.foxsports.com - 2/23/2008
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Well, the Reds pulled it off. General manager Wayne Krivsky, mining the bottom of the free-agent market, secured left-hander Jeremy Affeldt with a one-year, $3 million contract and right-hander Josh Fogg with a one-year, $1 million deal. "There was no real strategy. It's just the way things played out," Krivsky says. "We're looking for quality guys to bring in at any point during the ...
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Padres Interest Turns To Gross
Eli's MLB Rumors —
... The Padres are looking for an outfielder and have turned their interest to outfielder Gabe Gross. Gross hit .235 with 7 HR in 95 games, but he is just 28 and could be the Padres outfielder for the next couple of years. Furthermore, the Padres will not have to give up as much as they would if they were to trade for Xavier Nady or Matt Murton, so that makes him an even more solid pick up. The Brewers are likely to unload him because there is no room in the Padres outfield, so they might be willing to take less. They have Tony Gwynn and Gabe Kapler behind Mike Cameron, Ryan Braun, ...
Old Faithful: Another Lazy Sunday
The DiaTribe —
... Ken Rosenthal identifies Brewers OF Gabe Gross as a player who could be caught in a roster crunch and someone whom the Indians have shown interest in. Not sure that Gross would count as an upgrade over the current in-house options and looks to be a LH platoon OF (career .784 OPS vs. RHP, career .436 OPS vs. LHP). With the BLC scheduled to come off the DL in May, the only reason I could see this would be if Dellucci is not ready to break camp with the team – which would be very surprising given all that has been written about how Dellucci is ready to put 2007 behind him. ...
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Right Field Bleachers —
... - Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports said the Padres were after Gabe Gross and Melvin says, "Huh?" Doug said the two sides haven't even talked about a deal involving Gross. ...
Your Team Ain’t S#!t #7: The Reds
Bugs & Cranks —
... Jeremy Affeldt and Josh Fogg. They signed one-year deals for $1 million and $3 million respectively. That sounds like we’ll take whatever we can get money. That sounds like we don’t want to be here, we just ended up here to me. ...
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