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Here are Ten MLB Teams listed alphabetically with their free agents and my opinion of these free agents as far as the Angels are concerned. This is the first of three parts to just weed the garden about who we should all be talking about in regards to offseason free agent signings.
Angels: Hideki Matsui ... With Abreu and Napoli and others needing DH time or even without Napster, Matsui is not anywhere near a must-sign.
Scot Shields ... Retirement party?
Astros: Pedro Feliz .... Rates behind Freddy Sandoval for 10th on our infield depth chart. No.
Athletics: Justin Duchscherer ... No way.
Ben Sheets ... Not even a flyer.
Blue Jays: Lyle Overbay ... Behind even B-Wood on 1B power potential
Scott Downs ... hmmmm ... could be a Speier, could be an OIiver
Jason Frasor ... hmmmm ... could be a Speier, could be a Shields.
John Buck ... Mark Whicker says "YES" ... so: No way.
Braves: Troy Glaus ... hmmmm ... are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'???
Alex Gonzalez ... Callaspoesque
Eric Hinske ... Juanriveraesque
Derek Lee ... you don't want us, we don't want you
David Ross ... pass
Brewers: Dave Bush ... Would be below Matt Palmer and Trevor Bell on our SP depth chart. No way.
Jody Gerut ... huh? No.
Cardinals: Brad Penny ... better than Kazmir, maybe better than Pineiro, way to expensive to be not as good as Santana
Dennys Reyes ... Maybe a Darren Oliver-like reclamation.
Cubs: Xavier Nady ... We have Willits and Rivera
Diamondbacks: Aaron Heilman ... nothing we don't already have in younger, cheaper players.
Rodrigo Lopez ... i now Wins and Losses are not the most statistically accurate measure of a player's worth, but the dude lost 16 games last year and that makes him a loser.
Brandon Webb ... Take a flyer on Chief Tender Elbow of the Snakes blink on their club option.
Dodgers: Ted Lilly ... would be better than Kazmir. Paying Kaz's salary and about the same to Lilly = $26 million for a #5 starter? Pass.
Vicente Padilla ... ha ha ha ha ha. No.
Ronnie Belliard ... Aybar plus eight years and seventy pounds
Reed Johnson ... uhhhh... well.... nope.
Jeff Weaver ... to throw eggs at... otherwise no.
Garret Anderson ... would he show up to sign the contract?
Ramon Ortiz ... warning to Ervin Santana: this could be you.
Okay, so we have four possible free agent targets from the first ten teams in the MLB: Scott Downs, Jason Frasor, Troy Glaus and Brandon Webb.
0 recs | 21 comments
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troy glaus back would be interesting, he’d come inexpensive and maybe sign for a hometown discount, giving us a 3b/DH. I look back at the top angels of all time and I want that description of him as the table setter back!
ANewFoundThrice - October 12, 2010
He played 1B all year...
I think he only played at 3B in the playoffs because they needed offensive players.
pendletonmike - October 14, 2010
I wouldn't mind seeing Glaus back at the Big A.
RexTookMyStash - October 12, 2010
Webb would a good guy to offer an incentive based contract to, not sure if he would accept it though.
I would pass on pretty much everyone else on that list though, though if the team insists on signing a FA reliever, Downs would be a decent option.
Glaus pretty much seems like a DH/1B at this point.
~MMP~ - October 12, 2010
not after that great defensive play in extras against SF
Glaus started a rocket 5-4-3 DP with the bases loaded in extra innings in SF, gutsy, dramatic and as athletic as I have ever seen him defensively. Made me believe he has little left in the tank with the leather.
Rev Halofan - October 12, 2010
Ya, I saw that too and it was impressive. I just don't think he would be able to handle playing 3rd for a full season.
~MMP~ - October 12, 2010
Yeah, but he also had some balls hit at him against SF that he couldn't make plays on because he couldn't get to the ball quick enough.
Love me some ’02 Glaus, but… pass.
AlanFalcon - October 12, 2010
It was impressive but he almost threw the ball into right field
Infante made a nice grab on a quickly thrown ball that was tailing away from him.
angelsownredsux - October 12, 2010
im not connvinced
On any of those names… If I had to choose .. Web.. Everyone else could catch the 2010 underachieving virus like the rest of the team.. We need to go big
wheres_bourjos_at - October 12, 2010 via mobile
If they actually do trade Nap
for some real help at third or left field, I could get behind a Glaus reunion. He can be in a DH rotation with Abreu and Kendry, while starting at first and third once in a while (never behind Piniero). The guy can still hit.
I think you nail Downs and Frasor on the head. If either was especially cheap it would be fine but this team can’t afford to risk paying another thirty-something reliever $5 million a year only to watch their immediate decline.
dmhead - October 12, 2010
BRING BACK GLAUS!!!!!!!
Angels_48 - October 12, 2010
Nice nostalgia, but I really don't think this team needs another older injury prone player who hit .240.
T. Lilly is not a 5th starter. He is more like a #3.
Wally's World - October 12, 2010
not on this team
hobbit_86 - October 12, 2010
Brad Penny not as good as Pineiro, and a huge risk health wise.
44FAN - October 12, 2010
Ummmmm....
nothing will say “slow summer memories” like watching Glaus play the field like Root Beard the Ent, then get up to the plate, squint some, whiff twice, and then, once on base, ooze slowly toward second as the first out in a double play.
It’s like every great baseball mind has said since the founding of the game. If you want to turn your team around, go get old, slow guys who can’t field. We can have Juan Rivera DH and get 18 doubles, 16 HR and .240 out of him. Even Troy himself looked shocked that he’d pulled off that play against the Giants.
Webb we don’t really need…. Downs I’d pull the trigger, primarily because we need to get lefty relief somewhere, which means we’ll need to take some sort of “risk” to get it, and he’s got an OK track record.
Darn it! I knew as soon as we started out not even trying to sign Oliver we were making a huge mistake. Now we need a lefty and we’ll have to pay out the nose for him. I miss Oliver more than Lackey/Vlad/Figgy.
gitchogritchoffmypetis - October 12, 2010
Letting Oliver go
was the worst decision they made in the last few years
WhatShouldIThrowToday? - October 12, 2010
Yep, letting Oliver go and signing Rodney convinced me to cancel my DirecTV MLB package last off-season.
That and letting Vlad go killed the fan in me (even though I understood the rationale for Matsui over Vlad).
snowhor - October 13, 2010 via mobile
Glaus is too old
I loved him back in the day, saw that three-homer game at Anaheim Stadium, dude was of course key in 2002, but i think he’s pretty much done. He can’t play a full season of baseball at starting level. The Angels need to get younger and more mobile, and Glaus is neither.
I’d say Webb is interesting, but we already have our own expensive project in Kaz.
I like Scott Downs just fine, but I remember our mostly-anonymous 2002 bullpen and think that unless you’ve got Mariano Rivera or Dennis Eckersley, you’re betting off going with what you’ve got instead of paying too much for far too little.
Looking at you, Fuentes and FRaud.
Kernel - October 12, 2010
Webb, maybe Glaus
For Glaus, I’d wait and see how the market goes.
For Webb, I would hope we could sign him to a deal with lots of incentives. If it works out, then we get quite the steal. If it doesn’t work out, we still have Weaver, Haren, Santana, and Pineiro anyways.
Downs and Frasor are fine, but I’d rather save money and see what a full season of Walden, Kohn, and Thompson can do. Plus, if we get Webb, I think Kazmir could fill the role of overpaid reliever quite well.
RICangelfan - October 12, 2010
Regarding Troy Glaus, I say no.
I have not checked any stats (recent or during his Angels career), but when I think of Glaus (Angels third baseman) I remember: lots of time on the DL, and choker in critical situations. (And I agree with Kernel, too old).
angelslogic - October 12, 2010
Funny, when I think of Glaus I think of all those weak offensive teams we had after we let him go and before we traded for Uhaul.
snowhor - October 13, 2010 via mobile
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