Furcal Signs with Braves
by Tom Dakers on Dec 16, 2008 3:50 PM EST
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Rafael Furcal has signed with the Braves for 3 years with a vesting option for a fourth year. So that little fantasy is over. To be honest....though there isn't a mention of the amount of money, I'm not sure I'd want to be paying him all the much for that long. But making the last season a vesting option was a good move by the Braves.
With Furcal off the market there isn't a SS left that I would want the Jays to sign. So maybe we could get a DH type instead?
Update: apparently it isn't a done deal after all. The Dodgers are back in the chase. What Atlanta offered was 3 years for $30 million and a vest option for a fourth year if he played 132 games in the third year. It doesn't seem like that bad a deal, I wonder why the Jays dropped out, they must have known it would be about $10 million a year.
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do you think
this means we get Cabrera after all? All the teams looking for a SS seem to have found one. I don’t see Oakland or KC, the other finalists for Furcal, getting in on O-Cab (not that we have been interested either) so do we get the Eckstein deal due to lack of demand? And do we want it?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
by hugo on Dec 16, 2008 4:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I don't think there's any way O-Cab is enough better than Scoot to deserve the money
assuming he’s better than Scoot at all.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by Torgen on Dec 16, 2008 6:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
though I suppose LA might want O-Cab
though maybe not
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
by hugo on Dec 16, 2008 4:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I don't want him.....
But I imagine he won’t be getting a very large contract. Might be a small upgrade……
by Tom Dakers on Dec 16, 2008 4:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Jays dropped out, likely, because they would have had to pay an exorbitant premium to buy him out of his preferred destinations (LA or Atlanta)
As for Cabrera – not no but hell no.
by WillRain1 on Dec 17, 2008 12:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I agree
with everyone that I definitely do not want Cabrera. Even if he comes cheap, I’d much rather spend the money elsewhere.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
by hugo on Dec 17, 2008 6:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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