Is this a crazy brain storm or could it maybe make sense?

Are there players worth saying “Welp, thanks for the memories, Pablo, we’ll send you some hats?” Sure. But not many.

But they could probably trade Uggla for some players who don’t cost that much. I doubt they are interested in trading for a player who is not only making $24 million over the next two years but is overpaid in doing so.

They don’t have to give Uggla anything besides arbitration money.

I could see the Marlins ending up with someone of Pablo’s quality. Uggla’s a pretty valuable hitter at a premium position. They don’t need to take on a bad contract to acquire some good talent, IMO.

I don’t think they would (seriously, the Marlins are not going to take on payroll in an Uggla trade and what would be the point of trading for Sandoval if you’re actually going to be “paying” him that much money over the next two years?), nor do I think a deal like this is ever going to be discussed.

And then subsequently get so defensive about it.

It’s a stupid idea. It makes 0 sense for a cost-conscious team to take on Rowand’s contract. It makes 0 sense for the Giants to give up on a young potential superstar.

A year of Uggla, based on past performance, is probably worth around 15 million dollars, perhaps as much as 20. We’ll split the difference and say 17.

Uggla last year of arb will probably net him around 10 million dollars. So he’s likely to provide around 7 million in extra value.

Rowand is probably worth about 8 million a year as a replacement level player if we assume he can manage 2 WAR. He’s owed 24 million. Subtract that from the 16 we think he’ll be worth over two years, and we have the Marlins taking on around 8 million in negative value.

So the Marlins give up 7 million from Uggla and take on 8 million from Rowand, which would mean that they need Sandoval to be worth about 15 million over his payment value over the next 4 years. He’ll make league minimum for one year more, then go through arb, which, if he keeps up a level of production somewhere in line with his career numbers, will probably net him somewhere around 20 million.

So the Marlins end of this deal is entirely dependant on thinking that Pablo Sandoval would be worth MORE than 35 million dollars over the next four years (the 20 million he’ll make and the 15 they’re in the hole).

That’s a very risky proposition for a cash-strapped team. And the Giants would be foolish to give up on Sandoval.

As so many other have said, it makes sense for neither team.

I see it.

but it has nothing to do with my point. Sandoval for Uggla is a massive win for the Marlins, but there’s no way that such a cheap team takes on Rowand’s contract. They would probably rather settle for a player of lesser ability and not take on the extra money.

If you have your mind made up already.

So Marlins are picking up a bad contract and a bad panda.

And that’s by either version of WAR.

I can see two things wrong with that title.

but have you seen Naked News?

Yeah, I think there’s only one episode in Book III that I’ll probably just never watch again, and that’s just because it’s a mindless filler episode. You’ll see when you get there.

The bloodbending was really cool. I’ll admit that had I written the show, I probably never would have thought about controlling the water inside of things. So, good on them for that.

Have you gotten to the point where Toph becomes extra awesome? I won’t say more, lest I say too much.

Also: Book III had a Dante Basco line reading that made me tear up. That’s how good the book is.

Best of the three IMO. Zuko’s “treachery” added a lot of interesting plots, and they really knew what they were doing with wrapping the whole thing up.

That’s what made Avatar so great IMO; it didn’t get Lost. Lost started so well, then they didn’t know how long the show was going to run for (popular show means they had to keep it going as long as it was getting ratings), so they had to pad it out with some bad plotlines that didn’t really tie in to everything else and weren’t explained. But Avatar knew exactly what it was doing, exactly where it was going, and exactly how it was going to get there, so it never lost focus and never became boring. Hell, Season 1 is 20 episodes, Season 2 is 20 episodes, and Season 3 is 21 episodes – 1 filler episode that howie mentioned = 20 “real” episodes. That type of show, with a definite ending that is apparent from early on, really needs a lot of planning and forethought, and can’t be artificially extended (which is what happened with Lost, and why it was semi-ruined), and it’s great to see the creators of Avatar didn’t sway from their intended path.

Can’t wait for the new series, too.

I’m seriously considering going back and doing it all again.