Pudge Will Be a Type A Free Agent

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Published 7/22/2008 by billfer at The Detroit Tiger Weblog
... Video from Dontrelle’s last start. The delivery still looks very much Dontrelle like, but maybe with a dimmer switch so it isn’t as intense Detroit Tigers Thoughts: Pudge Will Be a Type A Free Agent Eddie appears to be on the verge of ...

Wednesday Links
Published 7/24/2008 by Lee Panas (noreply@blogger.com) at Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog
... in baseball. Eddie B has essentially cracked the Elias formula for ranking free agent catchers and he reports that Pudge Rodriguez will almost surely be a Type A free agent. This means that the Tigers could get two first round draft picks if they offer him arbitration, he fails to accept, and signs with another team. Eddie also has has put together an ...

Yankees Looking At Catchers
Published 7/24/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Barajas, 32, is slumping currently.  He has a $2.5MM club option for '09.  Eddie Bajek took a stab at projecting the Elias rankings for catchers, and Barajas seems to be right on the border of Type B status. However, he might choose to accept an offer of arbitration. ...

Trade stuff to watch
Published 7/25/2008 by Kurt at Mack Avenue Tigers
... If the Tigers are really not in the race, they face the question of trading Pudge Rodriguez for some sort of prospects package to a team that needs the catcher, or hanging on to him and offering him arbitration this offseason. At Detroit Tigers Thoughts, Eddie tells us Pudge would be a Type A free agent. If he declined arbitration, the Tigers would get an additional first-round pick and a first/second round sandwich pick. If he accepted it, he might be paid a bit less. So it’s kind of a no-lose deal given the lack of a true successor. So, it’s probably best if they ...

Another Plus to the Trade
Published 7/31/2008 by James at YanksBlog.com
Tigers Thoughts had put a post about Pudge a couple day s that has a lot of implications for the Yankees this coming offseason. Now, I don't know if the Yankees would offer Pudge arbitration (with his age, he just might take it if he gets no other offers, right?) but I do know that the Farns definitely wasn't a Type-A free agent. SO if this all works out perfectly, the Yankees could have just traded Kyle Farnsworth for Pudge and a couple of very high picks. Not too shabby.

Cashman does it again
Published 7/31/2008 by Travis G at Pinstripe Alley: Front Page Posts
... Pudge will be a free agent after the season, and he'll likely be a Type A, netting the Yanks extra first and compensation round draft picks (if he declines arbitration (which ...