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Coco Cordero now a Red

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Coco won’t have to worry about coming back to Arlington any time soon to have his saves record blown again. He signed with the Reds today for an amazing contract. Four years, 46 million with an $12 mil option on 2012 and a $1 mil buyout. (Story here).
Seems a bit pricey – I don’t envision Coco as one of the elite closers (aka over $10 mil a year). I also don’t envision the Reds as being close enough to contending where they’d need an expensive closer.
The Yankees threw a stupid amount of money at Mariano Rivera, but at least he has a track record. Coco can save, yes – but I don’t see him as being THAT good.
What do you think?

Torii Hunter

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I was planning on writing about Torii Hunter today, and how Arte Moreno seems to be trying to do what we tried to do in 2001 with Galarraga, Caminiti, & Arod by trying to be George Steinbrenner.
I don’t feel like writing about that after reading about Joe Kennedy. Seems petty. Hunter went for the cash grab. He would have been nice here, but oh well. Probably will make a run at Aaron Rowand, but at this point, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Marlon Byrd out there in 2008.
UPDATE: There’s a good post with a summary of various people’s feelings about Torii Hunter and the Angels. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. I particularly get a kick out of the notion read about moving Vlad Guerrero to permanent DH. One of the best arms in baseball, and you stick him in the DH hole. Smart.
UPDATE 2: Don’t forget Adam Morris’ thoughts on the matter. It’s pretty much what I feel anyway, so go read what Adam wrote I concur. :)

RIP Joe Kennedy

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Black Friday, indeed. Saw this on ESPN a few minutes ago.

Free-agent pitcher Joe Kennedy, who played for Oakland, Arizona and Toronto in 2007, died early Friday of undetermined causes, reports ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick. He was 28.

May all of God’s blessings be with the Kennedy family, who obviously lost someone way too soon. I just hope that God’s plan for Joe’s early exit from the Earth will end up serving some greater cause.
Godspeed to Joe Kennedy, may his journey forward in the next life be one filled with the love from our heavenly Father.

Vazquez resigned

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  • IF Ramon Vazquez signed to a 1 year, $810,000 contract for 2008 [ Link ]

Arod’s Career Stats

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Arod will retire in 2015 with 870 home runs, 3,694 hits, 2,499 RBI’s, and 2,477 runs scored.
So says a simulation of Arod’s career done by IGN on the MLB 2k7 videogame. Check out the full article, it’s actually quite an amusing read.
It does say that he remains a Yankee all this time, and that they win one World Series between now and 2015. :)

Several Moves

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  • OF Brandon Boggs added to the 40 man roster
  • P Thomas Diamond added to the 40 man roster
  • P Matt Harrison added to the 40 man roster
  • C Max Ramirez added to the 40 man roster
  • OF Victor Diaz designated for assignment [ Link ]

Madrigal Signed

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  • P Warner Madrigal signed to a minor league contract [ Link ]

Barry Bonds

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Well, Barry Bonds was indicted this afternoon. I think this surprises uh, nobody? I’m not going to get into all the fiasco of that situation. I almost don’t care at all. I just wanted to bring two pictures up to the top of the site since he was indicted today.
They’re pictures taken in Philadelphia in 2006 when Bonds played there. I know Philly fans have a bit of a “reputation”, but sometimes it’s perfect. Several of the fans in left field at a particular game had some rather inventive signs out there. One was having a ton of them hold up asterisk signs. That was funny.

The other was a multi section, really long banner (with Bonds standing in front of it for added flavor) that said, “Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer, Aaron did it with class, how did you do it?” Quite amusing. Check ’em out:

Kenny Rogers

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I changed the poll on the main page of my site, so if you’re reading this in an rss reader, or on another site that swipes content from others to make theirs, please visit my site to check out the poll.
Having said that I find myself distinctly indifferent to the possibility of him returning. I’m not going to get all bent out of shape over it as the camera stuff was quite weird, but I’m not going to champion the cause, either. I really feel kind of “oh, OK” towards that news.
What do you think? Comment below.