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K-Rod Won't Negotiate During Season
The Daily News LA has a brief update on the Angels and their attempt to re-sign Francisco Rodriguez. Apparently neither party has made much headway on getting a deal done before the season and now that Spring Training is ending K-Rod and his agent, Paul Kinzer, won't negotiate during the season.
"...Kinzer said he has 'absolutely not' given the Angels a deadline or ultimatum to sign Rodriguez before the season starts or watch him leave as a free agent next fall.
Rodriguez conceded Saturday that seems to be the likely outcome.
'Everything's headed that way,' he said. 'But there's going to be six long months of the season and I can't predict what's going to happen in one week or one month or six months.'"
MLBTR suggests $50MM over 4 years is not unreachable for K-Rod, given Joe Nathan's recent $47MM over 4 years. Still both sides are distant at this point as the Angels best offer has been $34 over 3 years. K-Rod argued for $12.5 in the arbitration case he eventually lost, so the Angels contract offer falls short of what Rodriguez feels he deserves now in arbitration. K-Rod is only 26, seven (!) years younger than Nathan, and for that should be able to command a 4+ year deal easily.
By Nat Boyle
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As an Angels fan I hope we DO NOT resign K-Rod.
I would be trading my surplus now for a young future closer. We don't have a lot of other holes. Save the $50m and use it somewhere else (Tex, CC, etc).
Posted by: bjsguess | March 30, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I wouldn't argue thats its a bad idea to resign Rodriguez, but at this point it really may not be the best way for the Angels to use their resources. Their starting pitching appears to be in shambles at this point, even though Lackey should be back soon. Garland is a free agent this summer, so they'll need money to sign him or someone else. This will likely be necessary considering that Escobar's injury is pretty serious. John Lackey, Jered Weaver, Ervin Santana and Nick Adenhart lead the core of their rotation, but adding a guy like Oliver Perez, Ben Sheets or even Sabathia would make that rotation far better. And they could use some more offense from their infield, where Kotchman is decent but not great, Kendrick should be good, and Figgins really doesn't have the power to be a third baseman. And I think its starting to get to the point where Brandon Wood is gonna need to make some major strides before the team starts to lose faith in ihm.
Posted by: scribbletone | March 30, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I think K-Rod is going to be the Rays closer next year. A young, potential hall of fame closer (got an early start on racking up saves and has a realistic chance to be the all time saves leader assuming he stays reasonably healthy) to end games for a young team that's in the process of turning the corner. The Joe Maddon connection also is a selling point. I think the Rays open up the wallet for K-Rod.
Posted by: TNS | March 30, 2008 at 04:10 PM
Use the money to get Sabathia. Besides being an arrogant SOB K-Rod is going to blow his elbow out at some point. His delivery is so violent and the strain he puts on the elbow to throw his breaking stuff will catch up sooner rather than later. Let another team pay to watch him blow it out.
Posted by: Burtis | March 30, 2008 at 04:43 PM
I'd be more worried about a knee or leg injury to K-Rod than an arm injury. His legs take the impact of his violent delivery. He'd have a tougher time bouncing back from a knee injury than a pitcher with a more traditional/normal delivery.
Posted by: TNS | March 30, 2008 at 05:41 PM
Wow. All the people who are so quick to push Frankie out the door seem to forget that this is the guy who, at 20 years old, was one of the biggest factors in carrying the Angels to the world championship.
He is the epitome of the prototypical closer. A bit crazy, great stuff and fearless. He goes after the best, and succeeds more often than not. His type of closer are not exactly a dime a dozen, and the Shields option appears to no longer be available. The Angels should just pay the guy and be happy they have a cheap infield.
Posted by: AA | March 31, 2008 at 11:40 AM