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3-2 Changeup
12-14-2005, 09:50 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2258951

Scratch that free agent off the list. ESPN says that Arizona needs to trade a corner player to thin out a log jam and lists Shawn Green (22 HR, 3 years and $33m remaining) and Troy Glaus (37 HR, 3 years and $36m remaining) as those available. Ed Eagle on the Pirates web site says that a deal for one of the Red Sox 3B (Mike Lowell, Andy Marte or Kevin Youklis) for a LH reliever is a possibility, although only Lowell seems to be an upgrade to me.
ed500
12-14-2005, 11:55 PM
What i say to Mueller's signing is:thank you Dodgers
i would rather see Sanchez playing 3b-same type of hitter and cheaper
Lowell had a terrible year in 2005
Marte and Youkilis are prospects
do they have any HR pop?
PissedPrincess
12-15-2005, 11:44 AM
Marte is supposed to be a 25-30 HR a year guy. I think Youks would hit 25 a year if he played FT. I will miss Mueller, but he is older and on the decline. You are lucky he went to LA.
imgreat95
12-15-2005, 03:13 PM
Now that the Sox have Marte, there is talk here and elsewhere that there may be a package deal involving Youkalis coming here in exchange for some of our lefty relief pitching.
00_Agent
12-16-2005, 05:31 PM
Yeah, the Dodgers did us a big favor by signing Mueller. He's a decent player and all but we have Freddy Sanchez, with Bautista getting ready. Why give a guy who is a 34 all that money and 3 years? It didn't make any sense, and I'm glad we don't have to worry about it anymore.

I don't know how many more moves we should bother with unless we can make a pretty good one. The deal with the BoSox sounds alright I guess.

Still worried about our power this season I suppose, but if Doumit and Castillo start hitting a few more (and they should) and Craig plays like he did in '04 we could be ok.

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Greymire
12-17-2005, 04:43 PM
Marte is supposed to be a 25-30 HR a year guy. I think Youks would hit 25 a year if he played FT. I will miss Mueller, but he is older and on the decline. You are lucky he went to LA.

Ha ha. I too am glad we did not sign Mueller. Not that he is a bad player, I just did not view him as an upgrade.