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We now are going to move onto our own problems on the team with the offseason priority chart. Today we look at our own free agents, which are very few, and the one arbitration eligible player, Kelly Shoppach. We've already covered Jamey Carroll, plus his option has been picked up.
Kelly Shoppach - Arbitration Eligible (Re-Sign)
Position: Catcher (Luxury), B/T: R/R
Age: 28, Height: 6'1, Weight: 210
Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
Obviously we aren't going to be talking about arbitration, hehe.
I'm not sure what' hes worth or what he's going to get, we'll know that at a much later date.
Kelly Shoppach however is a prime target to get traded.
I really like Kelly.. He's the best backup catcher in the entire Majors.
Which probably means, he'd be a good starter.. That we established..
When we established that, we also established he was probably the best or close to best power hitting catcher in the entire MLB.
So.. Who wants him?
If Kelly Shoppach can help yield us a good, nay, DEPENDABLE TOP OF THE LINE Third Baseman...
As much as I love him..
Trade.. TRADE TRADE TRADE..... TRADE
Why? Look.. Carlos Santana is the future.. Wyatt Toregas or Chris Gimenez can backup and we can bring back Sal Fasano on a minor league contract if neither guy pans out in the majors to start it off.
Kelly would be an excellent starting catcher for this team, and moving Victor to first or platooning Shoppach and Garko in some way would also be a cool solution.
But you don't have this type of value very often.
I like Garko okay.. I think Garko can bounce back and have the year we know he's capable of. He also won't get you as much as a STARTING CATCHER with 20 HOME RUN POWER would get you.
Now. I won't be heartbroken if Kelly Shoppach is on our team in 2009... I'd actually like to have him in 2009. But if it were up to me and I could get what I desired for him, Shoppach would be traded.
Sal Fasano - Free Agent (Re-Sign)
Position: Catcher (Luxury) B/T: R/R
Age: 37, Height: 6'2, Weight: 220
Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
Okay...
I have re-sign under my plan.
Two Scenarios: If Kelly Shoppach is not traded... Sal Fasano is gone most likely... Unless he wants to come to camp with us as a Spring Training invite, where he can show his stuff for other teams.
If Kelly Shoppach is traded.. He'll be back.. I really believe he'll be back.. Not sure who would want him and guarentee him a big-league backup job.. Just not.. He'll be back in the minor leagues, he'll be the backup at Columbus.
I'd love to have him back.. I don't think he'll retire, if he does we should jump on it real quick and give him a minor league manager's spot. He probably still wants to still play though..
For that, I see those two options. He's a great guy and one hell of a person to have in the clubhouse.
BTW, there is no way he's 220, the weight he's listed at on Baseball-Reference.
Brendan Donnelly - Free Agent (Re-Sign)
Position: Reliever (Could Use), B/T: R/R
Age: 37, Height: 6'3, Weight: 205
Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
I'm going to put it at this.
Bring him back on a minor league deal so we don't have to initially add him to the 40 man roster...
Let him compete for a spot in the bullpen in spring training.
If not.. Good bye, have fun finding a major league deal, somewhere else. I think Donnelly respects the fact that we gave him a shot, and if no one else is going to give him a 40 man roster spot going into spring training, he'll probably come back here.
Juan Rincon - Free Agent (Let Go)
Position: Reliever (Could Use), B/T: R/R
Age: 30, Height: 5'11, Weight: 187
Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
Bye..
Same situation as Donnelly, only this one makes me a bit more uneasy. Rincon has had success, he's younger.. I don't know..
If Rincon wants to come into Spring Training as a minor league free agent signing and try and win a spot, be my guest. I don't think he will though, unless he shows his old form.
Next: Rule V Eligible Discussion, Who Should Be Added, Who Should be Risked losing... All that fun stuff on Wednesday.
- Let's take Mark Teahen off the table as an official target. I fixed that to Outside Possibility due to the news that broke yesterday. CastroTurf took to task the shoddy journalism, which could have very well been a possibility with this RUMOR. Drayton Moore, the GM for the Royals called the rumor a flat-out lie while Mark Shapiro denied even talking to the Royals about Teahen to Castrovince.
- Speaking of Castrovince, new mailbag up, Teahen was a main topic of discussion.
- I got nothing else and a Science test have fun..
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