Dec
08
Jays to meet with Pavano’s agent
ByNothing much to pass along, so I thought I’d share a bit on the MLB Hot Stove blog about the Blue Jays meeting with Carl Pavano’s agent Tom O’Connell. He claims he’s going to talk to 10 teams this week, though there’s no indication that they’re all about Pavano.
Sheets met with Yanks per Joel Sherman, via MLBTR.
I want this staff
CC
Wang
Joba
Sheets
Pettitte
and if Pettitte doesn’t sign
CC
Wang
Joba
Sheets
Hughes.
Either way that’s straight nasty my dude.
I agree. Then you’ll have Aceves and Kennedy backing up the rotation in case there is an injury.
I’m with you as well; this is the exact, two rotations I had envisioned in my head with said circumstances.
People here are always telling me that we do not need ANY pitchers, and a few readers prefer this staff:
Wang
Joba
Hughes
Aceves
IPK and the rest of AAA/AAAA fight it out
I prefer the second one up there, but wouldn’t mind the first.
really? who?
I would take either of these in a heartbeat
CC
Wang
Joba
Sheets
Pettitte
and if Pettitte doesn’t sign
CC
Wang
Joba
Sheets
Hughes.
BUT I STILL WANT MANNY!
Yup. Me too.
Might be time for you guys to hit the blackjack tables or something. News on Pavano is just making us freezing folks on the East Coast more depressed.
I want a few tales of CC betting gripfulls at the craps table or Eckstein getting carded at the club, etc.
I would love to see him grit out a phone number.
You went all the way to Vegas to check the MLB Hot Stove blog?
Why do you feel the need to be a jerk about it?
It wouldn’t be a bad idea if they brought him back for 1yr/$2M with incentives up to $9M. In my mind, he’s a better option than Alfredo Aceves next year.
Now that we’re on the subject of replacement-level starters: Why do people insist that the Yanks sign 3 starters? C.C. is a given and I think few, if any, fans oppose it (though I do have some qualms about his weight and workload). But Burnett? Lowe? No. Sheets? Yes–on the right years and money (2/$25? 3/$36?). But we forget that we have Phil Hughes, who is coming back fully healthy and throwing like we know he could–92-94 w/ plus curve and cutter, and
horrendouswork-in-progress change. Let’s not be quick to write him off. And, assuming we get C.C. and Sheets, the rotation looks like this:C.C.
Sheets
Wang
Joba
Hughes
Pavano (?)
Aceves
Kennedy
Horne
McAllister
Garcia
This beats the Red Sox and Rays, and pretty much any staff in baseball
highly dubiousl hughes makes the team outta ST
Hughes and Sheets get hurt, as they usually do. Now your rotation in this
C.C.
Wang
Aceves
Kennedy
Joba
for the next 2 months of the season, which happen to be August anbd September. Bye bye, playoffs.
That’s why they need to sign 3.
It beats the Red Sox, yes, but not the Rays. The Red Sox really have three guaranteed starters in their rotation: Jon Lester, Josh Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka (Heh, I was so close to typing “Fatsuzaka”… damn you, NoMaas!). There have been reports that Tim Wakefield is considering retirement due to some shoulder ailments he’s been suffering (this was reported on Sons of Sam Horn after Boston picked up his annual $4M option, but I haven’t heard anything since), and they have no starter currently slotted in that fifth hole.
As for the Rays, there’s no point in discussing that, they truly have the best rotation in baseball (even if Jake Peavy goes to the Cubs, I still say the Rays are tops).
Oh, and I’d re-sign Andy Pettitte to pitch in that fifth slot over Phil Hughes. Don’t get me wrong, I’d have no qualms with Hughes starting the season with the big boys if only one starter is signed, but Pettitte’s two-hundred innings are not to be undervalued.
Ben Sheets met with Yanks:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12.....143256.htm
The Jays might be a good fit for Pavono. He won’t be under a microscope and if they get him to sign a 1 year deal with heavy incentives, he could make some decent money. If he gets hurt nothing lost to the Jays.
And one thing Pavono has shown is that he miracuosly gets healthy in contract years.
I think the reason Pavano is biggin up AJ right now is so he goes to the Yanks and it leaves more places for him to go because he aint coming back here.