[ESPN] Orioles grab Burnitz, Purpura/McLane sit on sidelines

Yes, that the Stros are every racists' favorite baseball team.

Why is TP so fat? I don't know who coined that, but it cracks me up every time.

 

One of these days a big fat juicy trade is just going to land in TP's lap. All he has to do is wait.......

Freaking do something just to cure my ills for a while.....

 

so .258 with 24 HR's and 87 RBI's earns you $12 million? wow, i'm in the wrong business.

oh, well..at least it takes some steaks out of the Cubs' lineup. i'll take Jason Lane to block.

 

isn't that over two years. not bad.

 

$6 million for that? I guess if you have absolutely nothing else. Luckily, we already have a Burnitz in RF making a ton less.

 

can't knock the stros for not wanting burnitz. i follow the mets closely, they're probably my 2nd favorite team and he never really impressed me when he was there. he's not worth more than $3-3.5 mil. per year. he just doesn't do enough to warant more than that. plus, we need a bigger bat than his and someone not 36 with a high probablity of breaking down.

 

exactly my point.

 

The market just SUCKS this year. I haven't played freaking hardball in ten years and think I could pull freaking 5 million. This is insane. Mediocrity should by no means earn someone multi-freaking-million dollars. 6 mill for Jeromy Freaking Burnitz. If I'm the Astros, I take Abreu or Tejada's salary *this* year; as if the market continues this BS we'll see the return of A-Rodian contracts in the very near future.

 

That's basically Jason Lane. Would we pay $6MM for Lane? Based on how frustrating he was last year, I wouldn't.

 

Actually, I take that back. He's much worse than Jason Lane. OPS about 0.50 pts lower. Yuck.

 

The Astros aren't going to make a move outside of maybe picking up another pitcher and Clemens' come May 1st. Their payroll is at $85 million because of Bagwell's bloated end-heavy contract... get used to it. If Clemens' decides to return that will put the payroll at over 100m. Frankly, I'm happy we haven't made any moves because all of the players who got high dollar long term deals were simply a waste this off-season in my opinion. I'd much rather wait for Bagwell to get off the books after this season and go after Adam Dunn or another offensive monster like him for our future. If we are going to have a bloated long-term deal at least make it on a young guy.

 

Anybody know the latest on Tejada?

 

Here is some bad news:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10628041/from/RS.4

 

God bless the Arodian contracts. Baseball needs more of them.

 

...like a hole in the head.

 

This would have been the ideal signing..if this was 1999.

 

Jason Lane plays half his games at MMP.

 

Burnitz played half his games at Wrigley. Your point?

Edit: And check out his splits, he hit .258 in both places but...

In 295 home at bats, Burnitz hit 17 homers with 58 RBIs.
In 310 road at bats, Burnitz hit 7 homers with 29 RBIs.

Meanwhile, Jason Lane hit 14 homers with 44 RBIs at home and 12 homers with 34 RBI on the road, though his BA splits were more pronounced at .298 vs. .239.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2274777

He's "more upset" now than he was when he requested the trade.

As far as the Astros dealing for Tejada, the Orioles want a front line SP in return (hence the talks about Prior and Zito), there's no way the Astros could match either of those deals, since Roy O isn't going anywhere.