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SmackSaw
Merkin? Sounds like a Brian Wilson alias.
BlueSkyLA
Ha. Great name, lousy pitcher. To think, the Dodgers could have had Cla Meredith instead, another lousy pitcher with a great name. Vin used to have a lot of fun with Meredith when he was with San Diego.
Thurman8er
Angels will sign Pods, not Vlad. I think it’s 80% Baltimore, 20% Toronto.
TheFakeSting
I saw Backe Saturday night at a fund-raiser in Pearland, Texas …..looked like he was more interested in drinking and hitting on chicks. He’s done…..and so is his bar he owns.
LioneeR
An athlete drinking and hitting on chicks in the offseason!!!??? DFA immediately
Crawford Is LF
Vladimir is not going back to Texas.
HUNTER
Obviously the Braves have tried to trade KK, they have been working on that all summer, and Lopez, was signed for AAA depth, he is behind a long list of young, talented SP’s for the #5 spot. The only way his signing affects KK, is if some team wants to take a huge chance, and one of their guys they want to catch lightning in the bottle with is gone, so they have to go to plan B. Which I would hate to be plan B to Lopez, as bad as he pitched in 2010
Bo
Still pitched 200 innings last year. His rate stats were better than his ERA may suggest, so I say good signing by the Braves getting him on a minor league contract.
Todd Wheatley
Gee…. As a Braves fan, I say get rid of em’ both!
LioneeR
No reason to get rid of Lopez. Of course getting rid of KK’s salary is a priority. If someone puts up 2 million or more they should run with it.
$3866193
Lopez was a better value than most people think, despite not being a terribly good pitcher. Stolen from FanGraphs:
Player A: 215 IP, 2.46 BB/9, 5.05 K/9, 43.4% GB%, 4.60 xFIP, 88.0 MPH FBv
Player B: 200 IP, 2.52 BB/9, 5.22 K/9, 37.6% GB%, 4.70 xFIP, 88.2 MPH FBv
Player A is Bronson Arroyo, who costs $35MM over 3 years.
Player B is Rodrigo Lopez, who signed a non-guaranteed minor league contract with a ST invite. Sure, there’s more to it than the stats listed above and Arroyo is the better pitcher of the two, but Lopez is basically Arroyo-Lite and costs essentially nothing while Arroyo himself costs as much as Paul Konerko.
roberty
Yeah yeah we all saw that article at fangraphs.
$3866193
Hence the “stolen from FanGraphs,” but… yeah.
TheFakeSting
Vlad’s 8 million is either for 2 years or in Japan. No major league team is going 8 million per for a DH. Nice try Mr. Agent.
start_wearing_purple
It is possible he got an offer of something like $1M guaranteed and another $7M spread out in incentives based on plate appearances and games started. Other than that it sounds like a bad bluff.
Rabbitov
Os should just give Vlad the 8. Atkins was 4.5 and if Vlad hits 2 HRs this season he doubles Atkins production. Thats a good investment by my completely skewed mathematical standards.