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Odds and Ends: Hart, Ellis, Mientkiewicz, Varitek

By Tim Dierkes [August 29, 2008 at 11:35am CST]

Today's random links...

Ken Rosenthal discusses possible changes at various GM positions. Jon Heyman says Pat Gillick could take a high-ranking role with the Blue Jays if not the Mariners.
Former Indians and Rangers GM John Hart is interested in the Mariners job. The Mariners hope to have their permanent GM hired by the end of October.
A Japanese pitcher invented a new pitch called the shake.
Eddie Bajek wonders if Mark Ellis could handle shortstop. It's good to think out of the box given the free agent market at the position.
Doug Mientkiewicz would like to spend another season as a Pirates clubhouse leader, but he'd also like more playing time.
The trio of Blue Jays middle infielders react to the Angels rumor.
DraftInfo chatted with MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo.
Amalie Benjamin believes there's a good chance the Red Sox re-sign Jason Varitek.

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"You going to Los Angeles?" Scutaro asked McDonald.

"I heard you were," McDonald replied with a grin.

"Let's go ask Eckstein," Scutaro said. "We've got a lot of choices over here."

lol that made me laugh

Posted by: Larsen101 | August 29, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Doug-eeee! Doug-eeeee!

Posted by: BuccoNation | August 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM

That shake pitch is BS, I was throwing a forkball knuckler 15 years ago. It's the same thing. Mainly because I couldn't throw a proper knuckleball.

Posted by: Land-Man | August 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Ellis was a SS in the minors and only switched to 2B due to Tejada being entrenched at SS

Posted by: NorCalBB | August 29, 2008 at 05:43 PM

Ellis suffered a major shoulder injury a few years back that is thought to prevent him from playing SS again.

Might be posssible though.

Posted by: Zonis | August 29, 2008 at 08:56 PM

Ellis has mad range and hands, but his arm is pretty weak. I'm sure he'd still be at least an average shortstop, but his value is probably higher as a stud second baseman.

Posted by: Sky | August 30, 2008 at 12:24 PM

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Ellis probably can play SS, but give me an intelligent reason to convert the best defensive 2B in the league into a league-average at best SS. With that shoulder injury from years back (he does have a weak arm, just great range/hands), moving him to SS might be a bad idea.

Posted by: melonis rex | August 30, 2008 at 04:30 PM

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