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Ian Riccaboni
After Kyle Kendrick’s performance last night and their relative depth in the long reliever category in LV with Worley, etc., the Phils may want a chance to re-evaluate their decision.
Tom C
beat me to the punch, i was just going to say kendrick. hard to believe the phillies are paying him $2MM+ this year.
dylanp5030
Ditto. Kendrick needs to get released.
Bob Busser
Kouz and the rest of the A’s are not hitting much… it is ironic that the A’s (GREAT pitching with the exception of Fuentes) and Padres (Ditto) are almost an identical team.. the Padres maybe should have non tendered Ludwick…
martinfv2
Kendrick and Ludwick were really good candidates for this post. Maybe I will have to do another one.
dylanp5030
Yes, Kendrick should have been non tendered, along with Blanton a couple years ago in my opinion.
Lunchbox45
Loney makes 5 million a season.. There is no justice in the world
Steve Boyle
not sure why you missed Aceves, he should never have been allowed to go to Boston, he looks as solid as ever. Bad move by Cashman, he should have paid a premium to keep him and prevent him from Boston. The money could not be that much (less than $1M), and also a roster spot could have been located.
daveineg
Manny Parra should have been non-tendered by the Brewers. Instead they did a “de-facto” non tendering of Carlos Villanueva by dealing him to Toronto for cash.
Parra developed a bad back in Arizona, has been awful in a rehab assignment, and there doesn’t appear to be a place on the roster for him when his rehab is finished.
Villanueva on the other hand has been nearly lights out for Jays, allowing one hit (albeit a HR in 9 2/3 IP with 11 K’s. Forced to replace Villanueva, Brewers spent roughly 60% of what they would have on Villanueva for Sean Green, who’s had mixed results so far.
They did appear to make the correct decision on Todd Coffey however.
tomr
Jeff Mathis should be on here as well. Why tender him a contract if you are going to keep Hank Conger and Bobby Wilson on the roster? Plus, he’s a lifetime .200 hitter!
Gumby65
Who knew Russell Martin was going to show up non-distracted? So for precedence and hindsight being unreasonably 20/20, they made the right choice.
BlueSkyLA
Who knew he was going to show up at all? The Dodgers made him a perfectly reasonable offer. Clearly he wanted to be somewhere else.
nm344
Kendrick’s outing yesterday may have been the worst I’ve ever seen. Brewers scored their first 2 runs off him without a hit.
Ryan
All of his outs came from guys who got themselves out.
Two sac flys, and a below average baserunner who was trying to score from 2nd on basehit to RF. I’m not fully convinced that Kotsay didn’t just want to get the game over with.
TheDunneDeal
Awfully hard to criticize the Rangers for non-tendering McCarthy, who hadn’t struck out enough guys and gave up too many homers. Maybe the price was fairly low, but the Rangers were trying to get all the money together they could in order to keep Cliff Lee. Interesting to note that quite a few of his through-age-25 comparables did go on to have solid careers: Pavano, Loaiza, Bob Walk, Phil Regan, Chris Bosio. This is one of those cases where I feel the player and new team deserve credit for his development more than the old team deserves blame for letting him go.
It’s way too early to get a read because of his injury, but it will be interesting to watch how J.J. Hardy plays out for the Twins. Casilla has been an out machine at SS so far, and Nishioka’s injury has left them without much depth in the middle infield.
bleedDODGERblue
Sands doesn’t project to do any better than Loney?
notsureifsrs
this season, according to the ZiPS projection he linked to. over the longer term, sands projects to be the better player
jwredsox
I don’t buy Sands at all. He has survived against lesser pitchers but anyone who looks at his mechanics knows he will have trouble against better pitchers.
“A product of Division II Catawba College in North Carolina, Sands showed an inefficient, disjointed swing. Starting open, he took a big stride that forced him to lean his torso back to find balance. His hips drifted forward then twisted open along with his shoulders. Because of his long stride, he didn’t give himself much time to plant his front leg and leverage off of it. He has decent bat speed but he gets by more on strength than quickness.
Though he is patient, Sands didn’t put himself in a good position to drive off-speed pitches. He occasionally buckled on good breaking balls and seldom made loud contact. He fought himself with his swing mechanics; his upper body and lower body out of sync. He wasn’t in a good position to drive pitches that he wasn’t expecting.”
goner
The A’s could always try another player that was non-tendered last year, Andy Laroche, at his ‘natural’ position, 3B.
Robert Gaito
They have been recently, LaRoche has been seeing a good amount of time at 3B over Kouz. I’ll be interested to see what the A’s do when Rosales comes back from his injury midseason..
mattinglyfan
James Loney should’ve been traded this offseason, and yes, Russell Martin should’ve been non-tendered. While he’s doing good with the Yankees, something wasn’t clicking with the Dodgers and he needed a fresh start.