S.I.: Marchman: Renteria, Taveras head the list of biggest free-agent busts of 2009
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S.I.: Marchman: Renteria, Taveras head the list of biggest free-agent busts of 2009 Hold your Azerbaijani speed horses there...Willy Taveras got three hits last night! The first is shortstop Edgar Renteria. Thirty-three and a mediocre defender with an unreal amount of wear on his treads, he has had one year in the last six in which he was something more than a decent hitter, and is thus exactly the sort one doesn’t want to tie on to. So of course the San Francisco Giants, who have made a cult of this class of player, signed him for two years and $18.5 million, and have been ...
Links For Friday; Free Agent Busts, Futures Game, Joba Debate, Rollins
Around the Majors —
... Tim Marchman had a great piece on 2009's free agent busts so far, calling Edgar Renteria Willy Taveras the worst contracts from the offseason. I love the way that Marchman opens up the piece: ...
Odds And Ends: Draft, Nady, Kinsler, Snell
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... SI.com's Tim Marchman calls Willy Taveras and Edgar Renteria this year's biggest free agent busts. ...
On Willy Taveras
Redleg Nation —
... Of more substance is this Sports Illustrated piece by Tim Marchman that was forwarded to us by Ian, a loyal citizen of Redleg Nation. The article tries to determine the biggest free agent bust of the year. I’m sure you can guess the identity of one of the two finalists: ...
