Hudson leaving after all?
by John Holton on Oct 14, 2009 5:56 PM EDT
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Saw this on Yahoo! Sports and was interested in everyone's reaction:
Atlanta Braves right-handed starter Tim Hudson could just sign on the dotted line of a mutual option he has with the team and make $12 million next season. But the word from the Sporting News is that he is going to decline the option and see what he can get for himself in the free-agent market during rough financial times, according to the Sporting News.
My feeling is that if he wants to go, the Braves can use the $12M they would have paid him to plug the holes in the outfield and at first base and be none the worse for wear. Huddy has pitched great in Atlanta, but if he thinks he's going to do better, let him try.
Of course, I'm not convinced that this has any basis in fact. Is this just Yahoo! Sports looking for "rumors" to write about, someone at The Sporting News bloviating, or could it be legitimate? What does everyone think?
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just rumors
ken rosenthal did a piece saying around the same thing. then obrien and bowman both talked to Huddy and set the record straight. he wants a multi-year deal and is willing to do the hometown discount. it is all up to wren basically although i suppose other deals being made could have a big influence on this decision
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what??
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by Scott Coleman on Oct 14, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
its kinda like
“i pity that” IIRC
hohohhohohoh its the offseason, time to rosterbate in public places
Hudson and Wren have both nixed this BS already
A consolidation of all the media for this nonsense from my other favorite blog MLBTradeRumors:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/10/tim-hudson-likely-to-choose-free-agency.html
yeah, MLB Trade Rumors kept me busy with the whole Jake Peavy saga last off-season. That’s a good site and the main writer, Tim Derkes (or something like that) was actually the one who told me about TalkingChop.
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WE WANT PRADO AT 2B IN 2010!
by Scott Coleman on Oct 14, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
You're welcome
I also got caught checking that site about 10 times a day last offseason. That Jake Peavy stuff could drive a crazy man sane with how often it seesawed.
Let him walk if he wants to…..Rather have JV anyways. We could use the money to sign Adam LaRoche and maybe Gonzo. Braves goal this off season is re-sign Soriano and Gonzo if you can or at least one of them, I like our bullpen alot, maybe get another righty in there, Manny Acosta sucks.Trade KJ, dont re-sign GA, Norton, and trade or release Chruch. Biggest thing this offseason is get a legit cleanup hitter to play the out field.
PS, Where’s Heyward’s power? Every one is raving about this guy and everytime I look at his stats there’s no homers!! All I see is 2/4 2 doubles, SB, K, etc..Where’s the homers?? Those are lead off hitters stats
well
he’s not going to come up and hit 30-40HRs immediately. how many prospects can come up and immediately hit a ton of homers? I cant think of many..
Will Jason hit a HR every other night? Nope. But will he give you 4 or 5 quality AB’s every night? You betcha.
Jason Heyward is a complete hitter. He has incredible plate discipline, an idea of what he wants to do at the plate, and isn’t going to throw away AB’s. I’ll take a hitter who always gives you a good AB (a guy like Ryan Braun comes to mind) over a guy who is all-or-nothing (like Mark Reynolds), even if he doesn’t hit a ton of homers.
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by Scott Coleman on Oct 14, 2009 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions
oh
and good luck hitting a HR in the Arizona Fall League. Of the 6 ballparks, I’ve been to 4 and all 4 are bigger than Turner Field. The ballpark I was at last night had a huge wall in CF and it was 435 feet away. Unless you rip one down the line, it’s probably not going out.
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by Scott Coleman on Oct 14, 2009 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
What leadoff hitters hit 17 home runs?
"At least he didn’t nail the bitchy fat girl from Hell's Kitchen."
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Ours
because McLouth is not actually a leadoff man, but it seems someone out there has sold him to all of MLB as one.
well, he was on the Pirates for a while. that’s always a concern.
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by Scott Coleman on Oct 15, 2009 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Truer words were
well, almost never spoken.
I give Roachie a pass because i still think trading him away was probably the biggest flub we’ve made at least the last 5 years, and probably more. But the rest of that squad they gave away this year all came with question marks. Of those guys I think Nyjer Morgan wins the pot for shutting up his critics the best, and more power to him.
There’s some relief coming for those Pirates, Huntington and his crew are getting them back in gear to compete, but they’re still gonna have to fight through some mistakes of the previous regime for another couple or three years.
that Tabata guy they have looked pretty good last night
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WE WANT PRADO AT 2B IN 2010!
by Scott Coleman on Oct 15, 2009 2:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Jose Tabata, who they picked up from the Yankees in the Nady trade. I finally got to see him during ST with the Pirates and he’s fairly impressive. He’s not as good as everyone though he was when he was being touted as the Yankee superprospect, in fact I think Austin Jackson is a good bit better, but he’s still good.
Google the thing about his wife though, that story is insane. And I saw her with him like four days before it came out. Freaking crazy.
"At least he didn’t nail the bitchy fat girl from Hell's Kitchen."
www.dropoutproductions.com
WTF?
Hahaha I found a few stories on google and gathered that he was 19 years old when married a 43 year old woman and they got married at a credit union or something. Then his wife lied about spending 3 years in prison for robbery and that she lied about a kid that wasn’t his…but she abducted some baby? Is that right?
Hell, im glad my life isnt that complicated.
President of Marteeeny's Weeenies: The Official Fan Club for Martin Prado.
WE WANT PRADO AT 2B IN 2010!
by Scott Coleman on Oct 15, 2009 3:50 AM EDT up reply actions
When my friend and I saw her with him we thought she was his mom, until they kissed in an unmom way. Yeah, she told him she had a baby which she had stolen from a hospital. Makes you wonder how naive he was that he didn’t realize she was never pregnant. Crazy stuff.
"At least he didn’t nail the bitchy fat girl from Hell's Kitchen."
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Alfonso Soriano
Hit 46 dingers in 2006, with 39 of them being in the leadoff position…
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
you do realize power has mnay forms and is not just quantified by homers… and that generally 2B in the minors are HR in the majors, given that a player matures more gets bigger as he gets a bit older and the ball is generally coming in faster, thus when hit it leaves faster (as per basic Newtonian physics)
Heyward,Hanson,and Shaffer r ready now!! Why do you think they havent signed the "right handed bat"?
by fatazfoot on Jan 7, 2009 8:59 PM EST
i think
we let Soriano walk. offer arb. get 2 draft picks.
we will try to let Gonzo walk. offer arb. and this is where i think that it’s up to Gonzo. i think he will go, but you never know.
we sign Orlando Hudson on a 2 year / 12 million dollar incentive laden deal to play 2B, allowing Prado to be super-sub and Hudson can play 2B.
we resign Laroche to a 2 year / 19 million dollar deal with a mutual option for the 3rd year.
we let Hudson leave. this allows us to take Vasquez’s contract and renegotiate it. giving him a 3 year / 30 million dollar deal.
we need to do something with Lowe’s contract. However, seeing that we will let Hudson leave, we don’t have the same flexibility with the rotation. he’s going to stay.
I think that Wren will want to let Bobby go out in a blaze of glory and he knows that, by signing or getting an impact bat, he could do that. I think that we go hard after Bay or Holliday. we’ll be competitive in the bidding until it gets stupid for Holliday. Bay, however, will probably be a Brave.
finally, we will kick the tires that are Billy Wagner.
by apoxonbothyourhouses on Oct 15, 2009 12:42 AM EDT reply actions
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