 |
|
|
| |
« Javy Lopez Retires | Main | Could Cubs Switch From Roberts To López? »
Mariners Looking To Deal Out Of Options Players?
As the Mariners set their roster for the regular season, options become an important consideration. Earlier this month, Seattle Times reporter Geoff Baker answered some Rumor Royalty questions for MLBTR. Baker highlighted two of those players, Mike Morse and Cha Seung Baek, as likely to make the team or find work elsewhere.
M's manager John McLaren said he'd like to have his squad set before breaking camp and leaving for their San Francisco-Las Vegas swing.
And this morning, while speaking with Baker's colleague, Ryan Divish, McLaren hinted at possibly going the trade route with the team's "out of options" personnel:
Unless there’s something going on with one of these guys - Dickey, the Rule 5 guy, if we’ve got a deal going for one of our guys who’s out of options. That may push us back, but I’d like to be set when we hit that plane. I don’t know that we can do that, but that would be my goal.
Any team interested in Morse has to be willing to forgive and forget as he was suspended in 2005 for violating MLB's drug policy (Morse has said it all stemmed from an "enormous mistake" he made in 2003). Other than Morse and Baek the Mariners' other "OOO" (how's that for an acronym!) player is Charlton Jimerson. Check out MLBTR's full Out of Options list here.
Alejandro Leal writes for umpbump.com. He can be reached here.
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d834515b9a69e200e5517e00fc8834
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Mariners Looking To Deal Out Of Options Players?:
Comments
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Top Stories
Search MLBTR
MLBTR Features
Recent Posts
Rumors By Team
Monthly Archives
Live Chats
Tuesdays at 2 p.m. CST
LOTS of teams have out of option (OOO) guys they'd like to deal.
The truth is, most of them are gonna clear waivers because other teams are in the same boat.
Makes you think that a rebuilding team ought leave a couple roster spots open this time of year and fill them with the best OOO players available at the end of spring training every year.
Posted by: Devlsh | March 22, 2008 at 02:29 PM
Baek would be a great pickup.
I know one of the baseballguru's on this site have likened him to the next Chien Ming Wang.
And i don't think he was refering to the fact that their were both Taiwanese. Which was my first thought.
Posted by: BaseBallz | March 22, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Baek isn't from Taiwan, He's from South Korea just like Shin-Soo Choo
Also if someone thinks Baek is like Chien Ming Wang, they need to have there eyes checked.
Posted by: whatsthat | March 22, 2008 at 06:44 PM
Baek is a good back of the rotation guy when he's healthy. Churchill at Prospect Insider has hinted that there may be a deal to be had with dealing Baek to San Francisco for Ray Durham. Jose Lopez has been pretty awful with the bat this year and the Mariners might be looking for a better contingency that Bloomequist and Cairo.
Morse is scortching the ball this spring. He should definitely make the club and take Cairo's spot if it comes to that. The one thing I don't like about the situation the way its unraveling is that Jimerson is likely to be the oddman out. Without Jimerson or Reed on the the club, they are without a defensive 4th outfielder to spell Ibanez at the end of games. Trotting Ibanez out in left means the Mariners MUST have a good defensive guy to take his place in crunch time. Morse is far from even a decent outfielder. He misplays balls all the time and while his legs are better that Raul's, his glove certainly isn't.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out but I see the Mariners breaking camp with a 12 man staff and 4 man bench that has both Bloomquist and Cairo on it. Ughh.
Posted by: thr33niL | March 23, 2008 at 12:53 AM
What are the odds that Pacific Rim ethnic rivalry has anything to do with the Baek situation? South Koreans have had more difficult problems with the Japanese than with their northern, communist kin. Ceteris paribus, if Baek is just as good as White or the Mariner's 5th starter, could the fact of Japanese ownership of the Mariners have imprinted a decidedly non-baseball-minded m.o. onto this decision?
Posted by: DoubleSteel | March 27, 2008 at 02:25 AM
On second thought, I should withdraw my concern about Nintendo of America, Inc. CEO Tatsumi Kimishima's influence over the Mariners. Any company having any connection with the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto can do no wrong. Last night I watched Taegukgi ... that should explain the focus on international relations. And because Baek is on my fantasy squad, I was searching for more dramatic explanations than were necessary for his apparent failure to break camp with the boys. Perhaps Baek now becomes fodder for speculation about who might round out fractured rotations (e.g. Angels, Texas, etc.).
Posted by: DoubleSteel | March 27, 2008 at 02:38 AM