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Odds and Ends: Johan, Hudson, A-Rod, Dallas

By Tim Dierkes [December 17, 2007 at 2:55pm CST]

Collection o' links...

LENIII has a Johan Santana update...nothing groundbreaking going on, pretty much looks like the Yanks and Red Sox are still both involved.

The Brewers were apparently pretty deep in discussions for Miguel Tejada during the Winter Meetings.

After a year out of baseball Javy Lopez is back with the Braves on a minor-league deal. Remember when he slugged .687 with 43 home runs in 457 ABs? Good times.

Nick Piecoro has some chatter about Orlando Hudson, who hits free agency after the '08 season. The most interesting part is that Hudson refers to Bob Melvin as "Bo-Mel." It's the same story with Hudson - he'd like an extension, the D'Backs are noncommittal. You never know - I certainly didn't expect them to re-up Eric Byrnes. But as of right now it seems like Hudson will walk.

Alex Rodriguez is not on speaking terms with Scott Boras...let's all hope they reconcile, they were a great couple.

Barry Jackson says the Marlins have their eye on Dallas McPherson. The Giants are known to be interested as well.

Mike Sweeney's agent has been in touch with the Royals as well as two other clubs. I think he might have to accept a bench role this year.

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Nice to see you swapping links with LENIII.

Posted by: metafrantic | December 17, 2007 at 03:02 PM

If a person has a name, O-Dog has given them a nick-name.

Posted by: cascando | December 17, 2007 at 03:20 PM

If the Giants can get McPherson to sign a minor league contract, that would be great.

Of cours Sabean will probably offer 3 yr 30 mill

Posted by: zito4cyyoung | December 17, 2007 at 03:45 PM

Oh come on. This Arod-Boras crap is turning into a celebrity couple fluff story. How long until the Sun throws up "A-Rod to Boras: 'I never really loved you'" on the front page?

Posted by: FineHamAbounds | December 17, 2007 at 03:47 PM

5% of 305 million is quite enough to keep Boras afloat for a while.

Posted by: zito4cyyoung | December 17, 2007 at 03:57 PM

Count me in to be rooting for Javy this Spring! He just turned 37 and might still have enough in him to provide a capable back-up to McCann behind the plate. It would surely help to be in his element with Atlanta, in a year where they're going for it all.

On that note, for 2 years and $20mm, Mike Cameron would be a huge defensive boost in CF for the Brave, a solid offensive presence at the bottom of the lineup and an ideal stopgab before their younger guys are ready to take over.

Not that Mike or Javy are the essential pieces they need for an NL East run but in the right situation, along with a healthy Mike Hampton, they could certainly help.

Posted by: WestCoastBias | December 17, 2007 at 04:00 PM

*stopgap

Posted by: WestCoastBias | December 17, 2007 at 04:01 PM

Seriously, I hate to keep running with this, but the Braves have me genuinely excited for 2008. I have a team I root for in every division (Braves, Astros, PADRES, Red Sox, Indians, A's) and my NL teams all have solid chances of upsetting the respective favorites in their division, which is more exciting to me then when they're runaway favorites. They tend to fight harder.

In case it isn't obvious, anything I contribute on these boards comes from an extremely subjective approach...

Posted by: WestCoastBias | December 17, 2007 at 04:11 PM

"On that note, for 2 years and $20mm, Mike Cameron would be a huge defensive boost in CF for the Brave, a solid offensive presence at the bottom of the lineup and an ideal stopgab before their younger guys are ready to take over."

Cameron would most definatley be an ideal stopgap in center for Jordan Schafer, but it appears that he'll be ready sooner than 2010, and likely he should be ready for a September call-up this year, taking over as the starter in 2009. I think Atlanta would prefer a one year stopgap, which is why they got Josh Anderson just in case, but Cameron would be a reasonable signing, as long as its 2 years or less i can see it.

Posted by: scribbletone | December 17, 2007 at 06:03 PM

Yeah, I remember Javy Lopez's great season. He really CREAMed the ball CLEAR out of the ballpark.

Posted by: Kent | December 17, 2007 at 06:21 PM

aha... I was trying to think of something clever about Javy and his "suspicious" numbers, but that was better than anything I could think of.

I hope you're not Jeff Kent.

Posted by: Chillin | December 18, 2007 at 03:53 AM

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