DODGERS AROUND the MLB Thread

umm No.

No Yankees taking Hanley.
No replacing Hanley with Headley.

No.

Sorry. Maybe next time. Now don't ask again.

 

I'm not asking anything. If the Yankees want to give Hanley some ridiculous 7 year contract, they can have him.

 

It's because he's gonna get his tits lit.

 

Could the Dodgers possibly be one of the 'unknown' teams??



Four Teams Still In On Stephen Drew

By Jeff Todd [February 18 at 3:22pm CST]
Four teams remain in on free agent shortstop Stephen Drew, tweets Jim Bowden of ESPN.com. Two of those clubs are the oft-rumored Red Sox and Mets, but the other two remain unknown.
Though several other organizations have been mentioned in the past as hypothetical landing spots, there has not been much in the way of firm reports connecting Drew with alternative destinations. Though Bowden does not indicate the strenght of interest from the two mystery clubs, it bodes well for Drew that his market extends beyond Boston and New York.
Of course, the issue still facing Drew is that none of his apparent suitors appears to have significant urgency to add him, making it difficult to drive up his price. The Mets, for instance, are not willing to pay Drew in the vicinity of the $14.1MM qualifying offer that he already declined, according to a recent report from Mike Puma of the New York Post (via Twitter).

 

IMO, Stephen Drew isn't good enough to be wasting a first round pick on.

 

I don't think the Dodgers are going to start throwing money at a position they already have well covered. Drew would command too many dollars to use as a reserve.

 

A lot of people are surprisingly high on him within their system. He had a big year last season in AAA-AA and they feel he is one of those late bloomers. I don't care if he never pans out to anything more than MiLB roster fodder, that was one of the teams worst trades in the last 10 years. Stupid fucking Octavio Dotel. I will never understand that stupid fucking deal, we traded a young prospect(McDonald) who was solid when used in relief for a shitty vet doing terrible in relief and we threw in one of our top prospects to boot(Lambo).

 

Going after Drew would be the team saying that the Guerrero experiment was a failure. Can't see them doing that before he has even played a game. Not to mention, Drew has not played a game at 2B in his career either. Would the team really give up on a SS-2B transfer and then throw 10+ million and a draft pick for another SS-2B experiment?

 

Gotta disagree. McDonald is struggling and Lambo never did shit. Maybe we sold low but we didn't lose anything. Calling Lambo a top prospect just strengthens the argument that prospects are just that...nothing more. The fact that we rolled over on Dotel is the only loss in the long term.

 

People on my old board and espn were gargling Lambo's balls before he ever played his first major league game. I don't remember the exact comps they were using but it was like he would be a perennial all star.

 

The thing that made the deal so dumb was that Dotel was in the midst of a bad season to begin with. The year before, the team had used JMac as a reliever and he was solid and much better than Dotel, so what we did was we downgraded one player for another and then gave them another prospect to boot.

 

Extremely small sample size of 4 games. He went on to have a solid season after that with the Pirates. And no, beyond that season he has not shown much as a starter, but he still had the stuff to be a valuable bullpen piece.

 

Will say I was never high on Lambo. Was high on Jerry Sands (LOL) R.De La Rosa and Withrow for ages.

The only ball gargling I ever did was losing Carlos Santana.

 

I never get worked up about prospects. It's a crap shoot. And more times than not, crap. I remember people shitting themselves when they traded Trayvon.



Then he got shot by Zimmerman.

 

I was open to signing Drew before we brought back Uribe, now it's a no.

 

I had high hopes for De La Rosa, never bought into Sands though. I'm still not on the SVS bandwagon either.