Official MLB Offseason Discussion 2003-2004

Diesel · #1 11-07-2003, 12:48 PM

Here's where all MLB offseason, hot stove, winter meetings, spring training events and analyses will take place.

I'll start.

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cedarpointfreak · #2 11-07-2003, 01:12 PM

The yankees will go through some restructing for sure, and my reds will do nothing as usual. Some good news is that Pete Rose might be reinstated by the end of the year. I've been waiting for this for 14 years

Zach · #3 11-07-2003, 05:13 PM

White Sox trying to ressurect their mid 90's team by hiring Ozzie Guillen as manager and Joey Cora as third base coach.

**Phil** · #4 11-07-2003, 05:27 PM

I like taking Ozzie as manager. As long as they got someone other than Manual, I was going to be happy though.

jimmycoasterman · #5 11-07-2003, 08:10 PM

I think Ozzie was a good choice. Recent news says the Rockies are looking to let go of Todd Helton and his high contract.

The Braves are definately going to have an interesting offseason to say the least- Sheffield, Maddux, and Lopez are all free agents, and a few more as well. Many writers here are suggesting the Braves trade a Jones (either Chipper or Andrew) for a first baseman or another starting pitcher.

Diesel · #6 11-08-2003, 12:36 AM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Brogium [/i]
[B]White Sox trying to ressurect their mid 90's team by hiring Ozzie Guillen as manager and Joey Cora as third base coach. [/B][/QUOTE]

I didn't know Joey Cora was retired. How old is the guy? I thought he was in his early 30s.

Zach · #7 11-08-2003, 01:23 AM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Diesel [/i]
[B]I didn't know Joey Cora was retired. How old is the guy? I thought he was in his early 30s. [/B][/QUOTE]

He's 38.

whirl n hurl · #8 11-08-2003, 02:23 AM

Looks like my mets are fishing around for a closer and a second baseman...

Diesel · #9 11-08-2003, 10:16 AM

I can't believe they settled on Armando Benitez for all of those years.

**Phil** · #10 11-09-2003, 08:40 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jimmycoasterman [/i]
[B]I think Ozzie was a good choice. Recent news says the Rockies are looking to let go of Todd Helton and his high contract.

The Braves are definately going to have an interesting offseason to say the least- Sheffield, Maddux, and Lopez are all free agents, and a few more as well. Many writers here are suggesting the Braves trade a Jones (either Chipper or Andrew) for a first baseman or another starting pitcher. [/B][/QUOTE]

I know. Practically everyt player important to the team is up for free agency.

Coastr Crazy 72 · #11 11-11-2003, 03:46 PM

I heard the Yankees were willing to trade off Nick Johnson and Alfonso Soriano for Curt Schilling and Jim Edmonds. If that is true then i give up on the Yankees. They are always going after the old guys and it pisses me off. O well

Not that Jim Edmonds is that old but he is what? 34 or 35?

Curt Schilling on the other hand is old. He is about 40 right now? maybe 39?

jimmycoasterman · #12 11-11-2003, 04:34 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Coastr Crazy 72 [/i]
[B]I heard the Yankees were willing to trade off Nick Johnson and Alfonso Soriano for Curt Schilling and Jim Edmonds. If that is true then i give up on the Yankees. They are always going after the old guys and it pisses me off. O well

Not that Jim Edmonds is that old but he is what? 34 or 35?

Curt Schilling on the other hand is old. He is about 40 right now? maybe 39? [/B][/QUOTE]

Way to be a loyal fan. Seriously, they may be older, but thats not a bad trade. If they want to resign Soriano long-term, he's going to want a ton of money, and hard as it is to believe, the Yankees are under serious pressure to lower their massive payroll. Oh and Edmonds is 33, and Curt Schilling turns 37 in three days. Neither are showing any major signs of slowing, and if I were a Yankee fan, I like that trade. However, as they aren't on the same team and I doubt the Diamondbacks and Cardinals would make that deal.

**Andrew P** · #13 11-12-2003, 06:10 PM

Someone hand Steinbrenner a block of cheese and a hanky to go along with his whine.

By the way, doesn't rookie of the year mean that you have never played ball on the pro level before including outside the US?

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NEW YORK (Nov. 11) -- George Steinbrenner called the voting for AL rookie of the year a "farce" and ripped two baseball writers for leaving his outfielder, Hideki Matsui, off their ballots.

The New York Yankees owner castigated Bill Ballou of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette and Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who said veterans who come from the Japanese leagues shouldn't be eligible for the award.

Kansas City shortstop Angel Berroa won the award by a vote of 88-84 Monday, the closest rookie race in 24 years. Matsui and Berroa were both left off two ballots.

"I firmly believe that a great injustice has been done to Hideki Matsui," Steinbrenner said in a statement Tuesday, adding that the two reporters "made up their own rules."

"This year's voting farce, where the appropriate qualifications for the award were blatantly ignored, clearly demonstrates unfairness to first-year players from Japan. And that must be stopped," Steinbrenner said.

The reporters defended their votes.

"When Mr. Steinbrenner spends multiple millions to lure an MVP-caliber player from a major professional league, he should be embarrassed that such a high-profile player is vying for the rookie of the year award, and not the American League MVP award," Souhan said in an e-mail.

"Again, my regard for Japanese baseball is too high for me to consider Matsui a rookie. Even if I had considered him a rookie, I'm not sure if he would have made my ballot."

Ballou said he didn't take Steinbrenner's remarks as a personal attack, "I take it as a difference of baseball opinion."

"I don't think his opinions are unreasonable at all. I'm comfortable with my vote and haven't changed my mind."

The Baseball Writers' Association of America, which conducts the vote, said it abides by the eligibility rules set by the commissioner's office.

"We have honored Japanese players with rookie of the year awards in the past and will probably do so in the future," BBWAA secretary-treasurer Jack O'Connell said in an e-mail.

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antfarm007 · #14 11-12-2003, 08:20 PM

Go Tigers!!!

(And take the Lions with you.)

whirl n hurl · #15 11-13-2003, 05:28 PM

The tigers have got an awesome stadium...too bad nobody shows up--not even the tigers!!! I went to see the indians play them in september--I was really impressed with comerica and the people who work there.