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CyYoungSuppan
Going until I win the award that I deserve!
johnsilver
Planning on pitching in the Indy league, or in Japan in the near term?
ChipsHips
That is a pretty big raise for a pre arb guy. Can’t say he doesn’t deserve it though. Kimbrel my boy!
tomymogo
Imagine what he will get in arb
$7562574
nobody in the angels want to trade trumbo then why people keep talking about trading him?
Alex Miller
Because people are tired of the Bourjos rumors that aren’t going to amount to anything? I don’t know…
I don’t know why people would think they’d move those players when in the next 5 years they’ll have the best Pujols will offer them, CJ, Weaver, Haren, Kendrick, Trout, Bourjos, Trumbo, and possibly even Kendrys Morales to play with him.
Austen Stranahan
Good move for the Braves to give Kimbrel award incentives in his contract per-arbitration. Definitely something clubs should do more often. If I was a player and was shown that loyalty, I’d certainly be more motivated to sign a long-term deal with my team prior to Free Agency!
Leonard Washington
If Trumbo works at 3rd then they don’t have to move anybody. Morales has a far greater upside so if he is healthy he should stay. They won’t know for sure about either until the end games of ST or the beginning of the season though. As far as Variteks concerned it would probably be best to start him off as a talent scout for pitchers and catchers/Prospect coach. Then when an opportunity comes around for a AA or AAA team they can get him some experience down there. Eventually they can then move him to a AA or AAA manager like Sandberg for Chicago and then with some luck and hard work (What V-Tek is all about) he could one day become the Sox manager or a manager for another team.
Leonard Washington
If Trumbo works at 3rd then they don’t have to move anybody. Morales has a far greater upside so if he is healthy he should stay. They won’t know for sure about either until the end games of ST or the beginning of the season though. As far as Variteks concerned it would probably be best to start him off as a talent scout for pitchers and catchers/Prospect coach. Then when an opportunity comes around for a AA or AAA team they can get him some experience down there. Eventually they can then move him to a AA or AAA manager like Sandberg for Chicago and then with some luck and hard work (What V-Tek is all about) he could one day become the Sox manager or a manager for another team.
Allison
Would love to see Varitek possibly manage AAA Pawtucket, then move to the Sox as bench coach/3B coach. Manager in 3-5 years.
BK
Statistically Callaspo was worlds better than Trumbo so I am not sure why it matters. I figure if they can convince the league that Trumbo can play the corners they might extract more value in a trade.
NYBravosFan10
If Kimbrel has another year like he did this past one then I say he gets a multi-year extension
Shane Heathers
Kimbrel is awesome but you don’t give extensions to closers when they have 5 years of arbitration left (4 years after this season). To much injury risk. Go year to year wth him. He’s under team control for 5 more years. The only way I would do it is if he would take 5 for 30 million and two team options in his firest two free agent years at 10 million per.