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[Gad]

<!--quoteo(post=17185:date=Feb 10 2009, 06:58 PM:name=Clapp)-->QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 10 2009, 06:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Sounds like the Dodgers might get Manny AND Orlando.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Where are you seeing that Clapper?

[AlexV]

I read it at mlbtraderumors.com:

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Report: Dodgers Could Make 'Big Splash'
By Drew Silva [February 10 at 7:23pm CST]
The East Valley Tribune's Scott Bordow reports that the Dodgers "could make a big splash in the next 72 hours."

"Don’t be surprised if the Dodgers not only sign Manny Ramirez but Orlando Hudson as well," writes Bordow. It sounded like speculation at first, but Bordow confirmed to me in an e-mail that he heard the news from a "pretty reliable source."

The Dodgers have been linked to Hudson at times this offseason, but have only admitted to having mild interest in the second baseman. The Dodgers would lose their #17 pick in the June draft if they sign Hudson, but they're in need of a guy that can play second base every day and he's the best man available. Then again, as some readers have pointed out, it might block the development of Blake DeWitt.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Gad]

Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.

[Butcher]

<!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)-->QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.

[ColoradoCub]

<!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:39 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 09:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Hendry really has had a bad offseason.

[Coldneck]

<!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
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Good thing we traded DeRosa to free up some cash for Bradley. Hendry has don a lot this season to piss away the goodwill he has earned in the last 3-4 years. Maybe all of his moves work out. Maybe DeRosa starts to regress and one of the pitchers we got turns into gold. Maybe Bradley stays healthy and plays like he did last year. Who knows. But I'm seriously beginning to think hendry's been smoking something. Did he even talk to Abreu?

[Clapp]

<!--quoteo(post=17313:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM:name=Coldneck)-->QUOTE (Coldneck @ Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
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Good thing we traded DeRosa to free up some cash for Bradley. Hendry has don a lot this season to piss away the goodwill he has earned in the last 3-4 years. Maybe all of his moves work out. Maybe DeRosa starts to regress and one of the pitchers we got turns into gold. Maybe Bradley stays healthy and plays like he did last year. Who knows. But I'm seriously beginning to think hendry's been smoking something. Did he even talk to Abreu?
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Of course not, because Abreu wanted 3 years and 15 million per at the time. Nobody could've predicted the offseason would go like this.

[Rappster]

<!--quoteo(post=17340:date=Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM:name=Clapp)-->QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17313:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM:name=Coldneck)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coldneck @ Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
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Good thing we traded DeRosa to free up some cash for Bradley. Hendry has don a lot this season to piss away the goodwill he has earned in the last 3-4 years. Maybe all of his moves work out. Maybe DeRosa starts to regress and one of the pitchers we got turns into gold. Maybe Bradley stays healthy and plays like he did last year. Who knows. But I'm seriously beginning to think hendry's been smoking something. Did he even talk to Abreu?
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Of course not, because Abreu wanted 3 years and 15 million per at the time. Nobody could've predicted the offseason would go like this.
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Exactly...if Hendry had been sitting on his hands at this point, you guys would be bitching about him doing nothing. I don't like the DeRosa trade, either...but, I do understand that he felt the need to play his hand at the time.

We don't have a fly on the wall...we don't know the absolute inside dope.

As always, it seems with many that the best way to be an expert...is to be a critic.

[Coldneck]

<!--quoteo(post=17350:date=Feb 11 2009, 02:17 PM:name=Rappster)-->QUOTE (Rappster @ Feb 11 2009, 02:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17340:date=Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17313:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM:name=Coldneck)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coldneck @ Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
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Good thing we traded DeRosa to free up some cash for Bradley. Hendry has don a lot this season to piss away the goodwill he has earned in the last 3-4 years. Maybe all of his moves work out. Maybe DeRosa starts to regress and one of the pitchers we got turns into gold. Maybe Bradley stays healthy and plays like he did last year. Who knows. But I'm seriously beginning to think hendry's been smoking something. Did he even talk to Abreu?
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Of course not, because Abreu wanted 3 years and 15 million per at the time. Nobody could've predicted the offseason would go like this.
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Exactly...if Hendry had been sitting on his hands at this point, you guys would be bitching about him doing nothing. I don't like the DeRosa trade, either...but, I do understand that he felt the need to play his hand at the time.

We don't have a fly on the wall...we don't know the absolute inside dope.


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I agree with all of that. At the very least you've got to agree that there have been some serious headscratchers this offseason. Who knows how it will all turn out. We may be praising Big Jim in October. But at this time, it appears our team has not improved all that much and we are much more susceptible to decline due to injury than last year. We traded our injury insurance policies (DeRosa and Marquis) and added an injury prone OF in Bradley and an underwhelming utility guy in Miles. I think we are a better team if Bradley plays 140 games. I just don't think we can bank on that.

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->As always, it seems with many that the best way to be an expert...is to be a critic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Isn't that what we're suppose to do on an internet message board?

[Clapp]

<!--quoteo(post=17353:date=Feb 11 2009, 12:24 PM:name=Coldneck)-->QUOTE (Coldneck @ Feb 11 2009, 12:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17350:date=Feb 11 2009, 02:17 PM:name=Rappster)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rappster @ Feb 11 2009, 02:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17340:date=Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 11 2009, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17313:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM:name=Coldneck)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coldneck @ Feb 11 2009, 11:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17290:date=Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 11 2009, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=17282:date=Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM:name=Gad)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 09:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Looks like the Angels are gonna land Abreu for 1 year 5 mill. There are incentives that could take the deal higher but that's all that is guaranteed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow. That makes the Bradley deal look really awful.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Good thing we traded DeRosa to free up some cash for Bradley. Hendry has don a lot this season to piss away the goodwill he has earned in the last 3-4 years. Maybe all of his moves work out. Maybe DeRosa starts to regress and one of the pitchers we got turns into gold. Maybe Bradley stays healthy and plays like he did last year. Who knows. But I'm seriously beginning to think hendry's been smoking something. Did he even talk to Abreu?
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Of course not, because Abreu wanted 3 years and 15 million per at the time. Nobody could've predicted the offseason would go like this.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Exactly...if Hendry had been sitting on his hands at this point, you guys would be bitching about him doing nothing. I don't like the DeRosa trade, either...but, I do understand that he felt the need to play his hand at the time.

We don't have a fly on the wall...we don't know the absolute inside dope.


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I agree with all of that. At the very least you've got to agree that there have been some serious headscratchers this offseason. Who knows how it will all turn out. We may be praising Big Jim in October. But at this time, it appears our team has not improved all that much and we are much more susceptible to decline due to injury than last year. We traded our injury insurance policies (DeRosa and Marquis) and added an injury prone OF in Bradley and an underwhelming utility guy in Miles. I think we are a better team if Bradley plays 140 games. I just don't think we can bank on that.
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I agree.

[Coldneck]

The Washington Nationals and Adam Dunn have agreed to a two-year contract, according to multiple reports.

[Gad]

Dunn is getting 2/20. Pretty amazing given Abreu only got 1/5.

[Clapp]

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[Butcher]

You could certainly make an argument that 2/20 for Dunn is a better deal than 3/30 for Bradley. Dunn is good for 160 games a season. Who knows what we'll get from Bradley.

If Bradley plays 140 or more games, there's no question that Bradley is the better player. But we'll be incredibly lucky if we get even 120 games from Bradley.

[Rappster]

<!--quoteo(post=17378:date=Feb 11 2009, 03:06 PM:name=Gad)-->QUOTE (Gad @ Feb 11 2009, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Dunn is getting 2/20. Pretty amazing given Abreu only got 1/5.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Is it possible that Abreu has something in his medical jacket?