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WonderboyRooney10
Im hesitant to label Howie Kendrick a “star”. There are quite a few second baseman id take over him
cards2WS
I can think of about 7 2nd basemen that had a better or as-good of a season last year. So, probably not a star, but an above-average player.
Eddie Millhauser
I tend to agree but that can work in the Angels favor as well. Personally being an Angel fan I don’t want them to upgrade at second but because hes not a Robinson Cano he will come cheaper.
Thurman8er
Nice summary. I do think that Howie is one of those rare players who can keep up a BABIP like last year’s (his career BABIP is even higher), but either way his glove and bat make him well worth the extension.
Tim Soto
I hope Scioscia bats Howie right in front of Pujol’s so we can see how well Howie does with all those fastballs coming his way. He seemed to have a problem with the slow stuff low and away…
Would love me some opposite field line drives to right-center field – or over the right-center field wall, of course 🙂
Thurman8er
I’d love to see Scioscia find a lineup that works and stick with it…but I doubt I’ll ever see that happen. I like the idea of Howie hitting in front of Albert though. I could even see Torii hitting second in that configuration.
Tim Soto
Yeah if Scioscia bats Pujols clean up I can definitely see Torii in front of him – would be a nice fit. Now if only we can be assured that Kendrys is coming back so he can hit behind Pujols!
Dock_Elvis
With Pujols in the lineup, I’d really love to see Trout nail down CF and take over the leadoff slot. I’m not sure if it’ll be early or this year..but there is an Angels team coming that scores a MASSIVE amount of runs with Trout up top.
Lunchbox45
easy, just walk them both to get to wells.
Dock_Elvis
The Angels, of course, need to get a good deal. There’s a real chance Kendrick is overvalued.
YanksFanSince78
yeah, I would be really careful about the extension they hand out.
It’s hard to target his real open market value because so many of the “good” 2B have been signed to extensions vs open market free agency.
Phillips @ 4/$27 in 2008
Pedroia @ 6/$40 in 2008
Zobrist @ 4/$18 in 2010
Kinsler @ 5/$22 in 2008
Cano @ 4/$30 in 2008
Weeks @ 4/$39 in 2011
If Cano and Pedroia are the tops then a short term (no more than 3 years) @ $9 mil per seems more than fair. It’s also comparable to what Chone Figgins signed for as well.
Dock_Elvis
It makes sense to try and extend a solid offensive second basemen. However, an MLB owner acting rationally as far as salary structure goes is far from a given. There just isn’t much rhyme or reason to the salaries handed out. Top players sometimes take less money and lesser quality players get better money. There is such a drop off in offensive talent up the middle, more so than corner positons…well maybe not 3B…there’s just not much to replace Kendrick with if he walks. The Angels have had a penchant under the old front office of developing smallish middle infielders. I watched Alexi Amarista play an entire minor league season. Whatever his list height is..it must be false. He’s 5’4″. My wife was standing next to him..and they were the same height.
I realize that player development involves a healthy dose of luck..I’m just surprised more teams don’t place more emphasis in this area and searching for players that can stick at an up the middle position. I know that oversimplifies things greatly…but it seems to be the Achille’s Heal of most organizations.
N1120A
Cano was entering his first arbitration year, not his last. Pedroia was not even arb eligible.
Kendrick is in a different situation than these examples because of the time in his career.
rpoabr
Get this deal done!
He was a .330 hitter throughout the minors and i think still has a 300+ season in him in the majors. The power keeps getting better slowly but surely. As is noted in the article, he still hasn’t had that really outstanding year, maybe this is it. He has also had to bat higher in the lineup than he normally would due to the Angels anemic offense. Segura is just a prospect and still not far enough along to count on.
4 years, 35-40 seems about right.