Boras Has Offers For Teixeira

I can only hope that my beloved Giants pursue Teixeira. Tex is hands down the best free agent of the bunch.

Im my opinion, the Giants are spending too much energy focusing on Furcal, Hudson and any other 30 year old who can play middle infield.

Padres have one of the top 10 first basemen in baseball whos yet to hit arbitration. And the cubs cant afford Tex who will get a record setting deal. Its not that chicago doesnt have the money its that by adding that huge contract it makes buying the team less appealing so theyre attempting to restrict payroll. I still think Brian Giles is the best option in RF, good defense, LH hitter who can lead off. Plus hes put up good numbers at PETCO. But hes OLD.

Dodgers sign teixera, move loney to 3rd. Let manny walk.

Giants NEED to sign Tex. He's a more sure thing than Manny (Manny's getting old) and it looks like Furcal may be headed to Oakland. We need the offensive help and Tex is that help. Hopefully Sabes catches on with this one.

"Dodgers sign teixera, move loney to 3rd. Let manny walk."

Sure, I'm all for letting Manny walk; but I disagree with moving a lefty to third base.

"Dodgers sign teixera, move loney to 3rd. Let manny walk."

Fine. Welcome to SF Manny.

"Dodgers sign teixera, move loney to 3rd. Let manny walk."

LOL!

Brilliant move by either the Giants or the O's in signing Tex. They can move from being a crappy to team to being a crappy team with $20m less to spend every year. Brilliant plan!

lol @ the giants signing anyone significant. Sign another barry zito.

Someone help me understand why the Dodgers are not putting forth a major effort to sign CC!
With Lowe and Penny gone who the heck is going to be on the mound? Fernando and Oral?

Angelos still is gun shy from being bitten by that psycho Albert belle almost 20 years ago and getting basically screwed by a top dollar FA and am not sure he will be willing to dole out top dollar to any FA again, but tex clearly could help the hitting portion of the O's lineup, not sure how he will help that pitching staff however.

Would really like to see how the Cubs could get anyone to take lee's contract, much less the padres.

The rep of Angelos is not that he's cheap at all. His rep is that he bypasses his GM's advice to pay exorbitant contracts.

O's have offered more money then a lot of teams on players. Such as Lee, Guerrero, Pavano and Konerko to name a few.

Teixeira is a gold glover and middle of the line up hitter. He helps the pitchers on offense and defense. Also it leaves the O's less need on offense and lets them go after a DEF SS.

But the fact he paid Tejada big bucks since then also shows that Belle's contract is not the issue. The issue now is Andy MacPhail.

The years run together and it must have with Belle, just recall the unsportsmanlike multitude of things he was constantly doing and not the several good years that he had in toronto grimace455. The fighting, punching for not being nearly thrown at on sevral occasions, fighting with teamates etc.. he was a lost cause in that way as good a hitter as he was when he would just play the game before his hip injury believe it was that finally finished him off.

"The years run together and it must have with Belle, just recall the unsportsmanlike multitude of things he was constantly doing and not the several good years that he had in toronto grimace455. The fighting, punching for not being nearly thrown at on sevral occasions, fighting with teamates etc.. he was a lost cause in that way as good a hitter as he was when he would just play the game before his hip injury believe it was that finally finished him off."

I seriously have no clue what you are getting at. It's fairly obvious that you have no clue about Albert Belle, so I'll let this link speak for itself

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/belleal01.shtml

Red Sox are going to sign Tex. Youk moves to third. We then package Lowell (eating his salary, natch), Ellsbury and Bucholz and ship them to Seattle for Ichiro. 'Tek gets a 2-year deal and we give Gidget (Lowe) a 4-year. Rocco gets the 4th outfielder slot.

I've read somewhere that McOurt (LAD) is facing some financial constraints because of the stock market problems. Apparently he's highly leveraged in buying the Dodgers and it might well be that the Dodgers are facing a serious financial constraint in terms of signing new FAs. The presence of several very bad 2009 contracts (Pierre and Jones) is a compounding issue.

Rob, that doesn't solve the third base problem. The reason cabrera got moved to first is because he couldn't hold down the fort at third. We'd have to move Guillen to 3rd or another team(no way he makes it as a LF) because Cabrera would be the DH.

Otherwise, I agree with your statement. But what would make Tex want to sign with Detroit?

"Brilliant move by either the Giants or the O's in signing Tex. They can move from being a crappy to team to being a crappy team with $20m less to spend every year. Brilliant plan!"

And you have a problem with these teams spending $20M on a top notch player because?? I'm just trying to understand if it because you think that teams that haven't been good in recent past, despite what foundation they may have to get better, aren't allowed to take drastic steps to improve their situations... or is it that it's only acceptable for the more elite athletes to go to an instant contender? If Team A or Team B have a number of holes they need to fill in order to put forth a truly competitive team, why is it such a bad move to pay money to try to acquire a fine, younger athlete who can fill one of those holes, not for a year or two...but several seasons to come?

i agree KangarooBoxer26,

Boras is probably pissed that the market is taking this long to develop and he's got other clients further down the line that are concerned that they will be negatively affected by it. Its in his best interest to break this stalemate. If he had offers, he'd let it slip how high they were and for how long. He's full of crap and everyone knows it.

El Jefe,
You could go other way too...Julio Lugo for Suzuki, and Seattle pays part of his contract.
That works too.

Typical Voras bs. He does this every year to try and get the ball rolling. You know he wants the Yanks and red Sox to make offers so he can go public with huge numbers and, hopefully for him, start a bidding war. His act is getting old, I really hate this guy.

"We then package Lowell (eating his salary, natch), Ellsbury and Bucholz and ship them to Seattle for Ichiro."

I give up.

Boras will get Baltimore to bid against themselves and sign him to a 7/130m deal. The O's will proceed to finish 30 out instead of 28.5 next year. Tex has no interest in winning.

"That market appears to be developing slowly but surely. The Boston Red Sox are believed to have made an offer for Teixeira, and the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have indicated they have serious interest."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2008/11/angels-continue.html

I wonder if one of those offers is the 10-year 225 million dollar deal from the Red Sox that I heard rumours of the other day

Kramerica Industries Posted:

"That market appears to be developing slowly but surely. The Boston Red Sox are believed to have made an offer for Teixeira, and the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have indicated they have serious interest."

"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2008/11/angels-continue.html"

That article is from Nov 19 and is speculation. You would think that if the Sox had made an offer, it would have leaked out by a week later.

Why the hell are there 55 comments on a post that essentially says nothing? Oops, make that 56 now. Damn.

BTW- not saying the O's sign Tex, but I'm willing to bet one of the offers is from Angelos (probably the Nats too).

"If Teixeira signs a long term deal with Boston, this would block Lars Anderson the Sox top prospect and cause the Red Sox to try and find a market for Mike Lowell."

It blocks Anderson at 1B, for sure, but DH is another story. Anderson is still another year or two away, and Ortiz' contract expires after the 2010 season (the Sox hold a club option for 2011). With Ortiz already seemingly on the decline, I'm not so sure signing Teixeira would block Anderson from getting at-bats. So far, we haven't heard much about his defense, it's his offense people are marveling over. The DH position could be perfect for him.

As for Lowell, it's certainly going to be hard creating a market for him, and my guess is there won't be one until he's played some games in Spring Training. But there are teams out there in need of a quality third baseman, and if Lowell proves healthy, he could be just what those teams are looking for. Theo's going to have to get creative with Lowell.

I agree that the Padres are not the right fit for Derrek Lee...thats why I said 'if the Padres want'. But personally, I dont think DLee is anything more than an excellent defensive #2 hitter in most lineups. The Cubs are going to have to get a new 1st baseman soon if they want to compete longterm. Trading DLee and Fukudome would give us the money we would need to sign Tex. And I dont care who we get for those 2. A middle of the order lineup with Tex, ARam, and Soto would be very powerful, especially with Soriano and Theriot in the 1 and 2 spots. If we can get rid of Jason Marquis at half of his current contract (along with DLee and Fukudome), we would then be set for a good buy for a new owner. We could then settle for a defensive minded RF since our lineup would look like this:

Soriano
Theriot
Tex
Aram
Soto
Derosa
New RF
Pie/Johnson

That leaves a lot of confidence in Soto to continue producing, which I believe he will for at least the next 4 or 5 years.

And no...there's no way I would spend money on B Giles. Give me Dejesus and I would be happy.