Hey, it looks like the Giants offered Rich Aurilia a minor league deal similar to the one that Juan Uribe got. Fringe utility middle infielders? Gotta catch’em all.
Per Baggs:
For now, one development to share: Sabean said the Giants made Rich Aurilia an offer for a non-guaranteed contract similar to what they gave Juan Uribe ($1 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Third Base’
Aurilia Offered Deal; Tire-Kicking Joe; Sabes Speaks
Pro Joe
I wanted to do a quick Wins Above Replacement post on Joe Crede and Pablo Sandoval. I’ve been pro Crede this offseason for a couple of reasons. He’s essentially a league average hitter with plus-defense that’s battled injuries over the past two seasons. Because he’s been stuck in the trainers room so much lately, he [...]
Wondering About Wiggy
This past week the Houston Astros decided to non-tender Ty Wigginton rather than extend a contract to him and increase his salary through arbitration. The Chron article that I just linked to suggests that after arbitration, Wigginton would have been looking at a salary around $6M. He made $4.35M last year. Because the Astros did [...]
More Crede Talk
Joe Crede heading westward to the Giants is the new rumor that just-won’t-die.
From a White Sox Blog hosted on the Chicago Sun-Times:
Joe Crede: The whispers around the organization still seem to point to the idea that if the third baseman shows up to camp and the back looks strong he will be gone by the [...]
Ensberg, Plz.
Still not much baseball news going on (outside of the 24/7 Roger Clemens drama on ESPN which is fastly turning into a he-said she-said deal) but a few nuggets of information were posted this morning by Henry Schulman of the San Fransico Chronicle on free-swinging-should-be-gold-gloving 3B Pedro Feliz.
Blurb #1 from Schulman:
Contract talks between the Giants [...]
Arbitration Sensation Across the Nation
Nothing like arbitration news! to spice up the monotony of winter baseball. The Giants have recently made their decisions on who’s getting arbitration and who isn’t, from SFGiants.com:
The Giants announced late Saturday night that they offered salary arbitration to third baseman Pedro Feliz, although this hardly assured that the free agent would return to the [...]
Farewell to Feliz?
A quick blurb from GM Brian Sabean in a recent MLB.com article detailing the Omar Vizquel signing:
“Third base is what we’re presently going to work on,” Sabean said. “I think that definitely has to be the first thing we try to address.”
Sabean said that Feliz, who has averaged 21 home runs and 84 RBIs [...]