Offseason Targets and Arbitration Statuses... es.. okay

Jerry Hairston Jr., CIN
Casey Blake, LAD
Mark Lorretta, HOU
Doug Mientkiewicz, PIT
Raul Ibanez, SEA
Paul Byrd, BOS
Freddy Garcia, DET
Randy Johnson, ARI
Braden Looper, STL
Mark Mulder, STL
Carl Pavano, NYY
Brad Penny, LAD
CC Sabathia, MIL
Ben Sheets, MIL
Randy Wolf, HOU
Luis Ayala, NYM
Chad Cordero, WAS
Juan Cruz, ARI
Bob Howry, CHC
Will Ohman, ATL
Dennys Reyes, MIN
Brian Fuentes, COL
Trevor Hoffman, SD
Jason Isringhausen, STL
Brandon Lyon, ARI
Francisco Rodriguez, LAA
John Smoltz, ATL
Kerry Wood, CHC
Sal Fasano, CLE
Juan Rincon, CLE
Brendan Donnelly, CLE
Scott Elarton, CLE

Okay... That is the list of targets we have on our Offseason Chart.

BLUE = Either Offered Arbitration and are not a Type A/B FA or not offered
GREEN = Offered Arb, Type B FA
RED = Offered Arb, Type A FA

Orlando Hudson, Jon Garland, Orlando Cabrera, and Mark Grudzielanek all got offered are Type A or B, but aren't on our list.

There you go.. Kerry Wood might be expensive, but he won't cost a draft pick..

Not that we lose our draft pick this year anyway.. The Tribe finished in the bottom half of the league, they get to keep their pick.

That according to Shapiro means..

"That's significant," said Shapiro of keeping the first-round pick.

It looks like the Colorado Rockies are holding onto Garrett Atkins for the time being.

Casey Blake has a high asking price, which has the Indians backing out a little bit. Even though they weren't really pushing hard to begin with, yay.

Three years, 20 million?

Noooooop!

Not even two years if you ask me.

The Indians will be focusing on one thing and one thing only when the Winter League's start next Monday.

CLOSER!

"The Winter Meetings will be a time things get going," Shapiro said.

No Crud.. But there is no quote about going after a closer. I'll just take Anthony Castrovince's word for it.

That's really I got for now..

Javier Vazquez is on his way out of the AL Central. That's fun.