Hot Stove Thread

I agree.....remember that Craig Hansen was the closer of the future and I'm sure some team will gladly take him w/Crisp. There's no way the Sox sign a free agent CF....

 

All you Braves people, will they want to bring Glavine back, or do they think he may be done?

 

No disrespect, but there's a market for Craig Hansen and Coco Crisp?

 

What are the chances A-Rod takes less money (like $20 million a year) to go to a contender, like Boston?

And, no, I'm not a Red Sox fan.

A-Rod was apparently willing to give up some money to go from Texas to Boston a couple years ago. Now, he's a "free" agent and can sign with anybody. He doesn't need to make $30 million a year. If he decides to take less for a chance to win a World Series — and the Red Sox figure to be in the mix for the next few years — he can win over some of the folks who think he's only about the money and only cares about himself.

Just a thought.

 

Hopefully someone would bite on a Crisp/Hansen package...

 

Someone might give up a mid-level prospect for Crisp, but, realistically, there isn't going to be much of a market there.

 

It's pretty much assumed that Glavine won't come back to Atlanta.

Don't be surprised if the Braves go after Torii Hunter. They can't afford to have a huge drop-off of production with that position as it's been a cornerstone of the offense for at least 12 years.

It will be interesting to see if Hunter signs with Atlanta what effect that will have on re-signing Teixeira after next season.

 

Not too big, but they'd be able to get something decent for them. Hansen's extremely talented but the orginization has grown a bit sour on him, or so I've heard. He's struggled in the Majors to say the least and the front office fully expected him to be a contributor by now...hell, he was pegged as the not-too-distant future closer for the Sox a few years back. They'll probably give him another shot in '08, but they might have to include him in a potential deal because Coco alone is not going to bring anything of value. Coco is one of the top defensive outfielders in baseball, although his bat is pretty much garbage and there's no room in the starting OF for him, not with the emergance of Jacoby.

If I was a National League team, I'd certainly take a chance on them.

 

Detroit maybe?

That is if they can't/don't/won't re-sign Todd Jones. And you probably don't want to annoint Zumaya the closer just yet.

It probably doesn't happen, but could be worth discussion.

 

Any chance ARod ends up in Detroit?

 

Not unless he takes a pretty big pay cut. Tigers already have $80 million in payroll for 12 guys (or something like that).

 

Nothing but pure speculation on my part, but I think the Braves bring Glavine back. And then Bobby, Smoltzie and Tommy all retire after 08.