2012-2013 Offseason Thread

[ciaban]

I think the starters and position players are the bigger risks. The relief pitchers seem to have more success

Uhara, Siato, Tazawa etc.

[S.P.]

Kaz Sasaki, Hasegawa

[BigGuy951]

I'd be happy if they signed him. We need help in the bullpen real bad.

[S.P.]

I'd be happy if they signed him. We need help in the bullpen real bad.

I'm worried we're only gonna have half a rotation now.

[BigGuy951]

Me too. But I trust that Dipoto will find serviceable replacements if we can't get Greinke re-signed.

[RUSTYTROMBONE]

NO MORE JAPANESE JUNKBALLERS! It will be like the Angels never got rid of TANKahashi. I could be wrong though. But then again what other options are the Angels left with, right?

[vladdy#27]

Japanese closer Kyuji Fujikawa visited with five MLB teams this past weekend, and he appears to be moving quickly through the free agent process. Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker (Twitter link) translates a Nikkan Sports piece that reports Fujikawa has offers from 10 Major League clubs and has narrowed his decision process to five teams.

Fujikawa has reportedly met with the Dodgers, Angels, Orioles, Cubs and Diamondbacks. The Rangers are also said to have interest in the 32-year-old, who has been Japan's best closer for the past several years. He is reportedly looking for a multiyear deal on his first foray into Major League Baseball. Because he is a free agent, interested teams are not required to go through the posting process with Fujikawa.

Fujikawa has only posted an ERA higher than 1.63 once since 2007. Over the past six seasons with the Hanshin Tigers, he has 202 saves to go along with an eye-popping 1.36 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 12.4 K/9 and 2.3 BB/9 in 369 2/3 innings. In that time, he's allowed just 18 home runs.

I really hope we get him, I'm sure we are one of the five

[SeWwEwW]

Figgins for wells straight up!

[RUSTYTROMBONE]

Figgins for wells straight up!

Never gonna happen. The Angels would have to give the M's about $71 mil to offset the cost of Wells' contract. Either that or they would want a handful of decent, cost controlled, players that are under contract for at least the duration of Wells' contract in conjunction with taking Vernon off of their hands, and that is just something that the Angels do not have.

[vladdy#27]

Figgins for wells straight up!

They wouldn't do that but

Chone Figgins is "not likely to be a fit" for the Angels, a team source tells MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez. Figgins spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Angels before signing with the Mariners as a free agent and badly struggling for the last three seasons. Seattle designated Figgins for assignment earlier today.

[Suns4ever67]

Sign David Wright. Sign Fujikawa. Sign Joe Sanders. Beg, borrow, steal a #3 pitcher to replace Greinke. I would have taken Kuroda over Greinke in a heartbeat, but he resigned with the Yankees.

[vladdy#27]

Sign David Wright.

Not a free agent

[SeWwEwW]

Sign Hamilton 4 years 100 trade bourjos and other peeps for wright sign soria maybe Madson cheap! I wouldn't mind Saunders but I feel they need another big pitcher. I also like McCarthy. Pretty solid to me!

[Hunter48MVP]

Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports says the Marlins should trade Giancarlo Stanton right now if they're serious about rebuilding. "This has a chance to be baseball's version of the Herschel Walker trade," he wrote.

Full Article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb--gi...065740919.html

Stanton and Trout

[VladTheImpaler]

Full Article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb--gi...065740919.html

Stanton and Trout

I'm guessing you aren't too familiar with the Herschel Walker trade. Long story short, we could never do it, and even if we could, it'd be stupid to do so.