Royce Clayton Rumors

Crasnick On Remaining Free Agents

ESPN's Jerry Crasnick examines the status of nine free agents: Sammy Sosa, Kenny Lofton, Reggie Sanders, Jeff Cirillo, Royce Clayton, Steve Finley, Freddy Garcia, David Wells, and Damian Miller. Lofton is likely to find a job; he's healthy and played reasonably well last year. The Cubs still might be a fit. Seems that Garcia probably won't reach a big league mound until September; auditioning for teams may take place in July. Miller received calls from the Yankees and Padres, but he's still taking a Brewers or nothing stance.   Continue Reading

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Minor Moves: Cirillo, Elarton, Clayton

Some minor moves occurred recently. Let's catch up. The Diamondbacks claimed 37 year-old infielder Jeff Cirillo off waivers from the Twins. I still remember when Cirillo was a perennial .320 hitter and regular third baseman for the Brewers and Rockies. This looks like a salary dump, with the Twins not wanting to pay the $550,000 or so due to Cirillo for the remainder of the season. The Indians signed Scott Elarton to a minor league contract. Elarton was last semi-useful in Cleveland back in '05, when he posted a 4.61 ERA in 181 innings. Currently, southpaw groundballer Aaron Laffey is..   Continue Reading

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Jays Sign Clayton

Ken Rosenthal reports that the Blue Jays signed Royce Clayton today to be their starting shortstop, at a price of $1.5MM. As Rosenthal suggests, Clayton's main skill, defense, has been deteriorating. He isn't much range-wise and probably shouldn't be starting for anyone. At least when the Red Sox went with Alex Gonzalez last year, he truly was saving runs with glovework. While I don't love the signing, the Blue Jays will still field a fine club in 2007 once they add some starting pitching   Continue Reading

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