Could O's, Nats trade non-tenders?
Funny how things work in baseball. The Orioles non-tendered underachieving pitcher Daniel Cabrera and agent Mike Powers already claims to have gotten overtures from 11 teams. One of those teams is the Washington Nationals.
The Nationals non-tendered pitcher Tim Redding on Friday, and agent Tom O'Connell confirmed in an e-mail to Baltimore Sun baseball writer Dan Connolly today that the Orioles have expressed interest in signing him.
Probably won't end up going down that way, but it shows how each team sees each player through a unique prism of its own interests.
Comments
Pete-
Thanks for the blog, I'm somewhat sure it's the best thing on the internet.
That being said, I have what might be a stupid question: Now that the O's have avoided salary arbitration with Cabrera, could they hypothetically offer him a much less expensive one year deal?
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Pete's reply: Yes, I believe they could, but they won't.
Posted by: Connor | December 16, 2008 4:32 PM
Pete-
Thanks for the blog, I'm somewhat sure it's the best thing on the internet.
That being said, I have what might be a stupid question: Now that the O's have avoided salary arbitration with Cabrera, could they hypothetically offer him a much less expensive one year deal?
Posted by: Rio de Janeiro | December 16, 2008 4:33 PM
They are both scrubs with losing records, lousy ERAs and terrible WHIPs. DCab is three years younger, nearly a foot taller and obviously throws much harder. Redding is no upgrade.
Posted by: terpfan | December 16, 2008 4:37 PM
One thing that needs to be clear, CC took the money with the Yankees mostly because the MLBPA pressured him to do so. He wanted to play in LA for less money. It was reported that MLBPA put that pressure on him and I find that to be true. MLBPA did it to Mussina! They will do it to Teixeira too!!
Posted by: RichD | December 16, 2008 5:26 PM
Pete--Take a ride on the Redding? I’d rather put the tender back on the track and put D-Cab at the back end of the rotation—that’s right the caboose.
Toot! Toot!
Posted by: Barry | December 16, 2008 5:40 PM
Any word on what other starters they may have interest in signing? Anything new on the two Japaneese pitchers? Thanks
Posted by: tommar | December 16, 2008 5:51 PM