Light the Hot Stove fires

Quick! Someone alert the Dodgers that Juan Pierre sucks!!!

 

Five years for Pierre? I know he is only 29, but he doesn't seem to be getting any better.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2669903

 

The Pierre contract is so funny that I'm tempted to write LOL for the first time in sj posting career.

Oops. I guess I just did.

 

I think the Mets might have been better served signing Frank Catalonotto than Moises Alou.

 

The Pierre deal is instantaneously far worse than Soriano, or whatever Huff will get. I'll bet anything that the Dodgers will be paying some of this off with him playing somewhere else. Depodesta must be laughing hysterically.

And unfortunately, the Alou deal, at only 1 year is not as bad as I thought it was. And he's a better signing than Catalanatto would have been. They already have him in the form of LoDuca, though I'm skeptical he'll repeat his full year performance.

 

Drs. Grant and Sadler are being called in to examine the Mets roster. It's suspected that amphibian DNA was used to fill in the gene sequence gaps ...

 

Plaschke should write 900 words about Coletti's old-school genius with a few salvos directed at DePodesta. Pierre is just a winner!

Soriano's deal is worse, only because it involves $136 million. But Pierre's deal defies any logic at all.

 

Soriano is one of the 10 or 15 best offensive players in the game, Pierre might be amongthe worst.

 

But...but...but he steals bases!!!!

 

No, he's not.

 

You honestly think that there are 14 better offensive players than Soriano? I think you'll need to explain how you arrive at that conclusion.

 

Off the top of my head (without research):

Braves: Andruw and Chipper Jones
Phillies: Howard and Utley
Marlins: Cabrera
Mets: Delgado and Beltran

Cardinals: Pujols
Cubs: Lee
Astros: Berkman
Pirates: Bay

Yankees: Jeter, Rodriguez, Giambi
Red Sox: Ramirez, Ortiz

Tigers: Sheffield
White Sox: Thome
Indians: Hafner

Angels: Guerrero

There's a clear 20. You could also put some guys ahead of him marginally depending how you project them going forward: Guys like Holliday, Rolen, Thomas, Tejada, Abreu, A. Ramirez, Konerko, Carlos Lee, Wright and Dunn. That's close to 30.