Lance Berkman?
An opinion piece, not based in fact at all, but the Giants were mentioned. "They'd [younger players] cost more in terms of prospects, however, and that might make a team like the Giants interested in seeing what it would take to pry Berkman away from Houston. He's just old enough that Brian Sabean might be interested in buying the next four years of his career." Sick burn.
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Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner and Matt Cain for Berkman!
The Giants offseason moves - "meh"
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, who could do whatever he wants to do.
Needz moar Neal as a throw in
Adopted Giant: Mike Krukow.
Grab Some Pine, Meat
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I'd love to have Berkman
But probably not if the Huff experiment continues to pay dividends.
My Son.
2010 Giants: "The thing is, it happened."
Yeah, I'm in this line
Berkman could be a decent rental (depending on the cost) but if Huff continues to do well then hopefully we won’t need a 1B.
Adopted Giant: Mike Krukow.
Grab Some Pine, Meat
K.F.I.S.T.F.
Hoping for BowkerMania to get consistent playing time at AT&T Park
Then again, though...
He does have a 2011 club option on that contract, and as far as I’m aware, we don’t really have a 1B lined up for next year (esp since we certainly won’t be involved in the Fielder signing or anything similar).
My Son.
2010 Giants: "The thing is, it happened."
Oh, my point being
That trading for 1 1/2 years of Berkman might be a cool idea. That would mean we could have a legitimate power hitter in the lineup protecting Pablo and putting up a .900 OPS.
Rowand CF
Sanchez 2B
Sandoval 3B
Berkman 1B
DeRosa LF
Posey C
Schierholtz RF
(Mystery Shortstop) SS
My Son.
2010 Giants: "The thing is, it happened."
That line up looks almost legitimate
also as far as the SS, doesn’t Uribe have a club option in his contract? Or maybe Crawford will stop striking out occasionally…
/knows Sabean will exercise Renteria’s option
Adopted Giant: Mike Krukow.
Grab Some Pine, Meat
K.F.I.S.T.F.
Hoping for BowkerMania to get consistent playing time at AT&T Park
Me too. Unless Huff starts hitting something like .250/.300/.350, I don’t want Sabean anywhere near Berkman. You know he’s going to think “We’ve got Renteria’s $10M coming off the books, we can afford to exercise the option!” and then Berkman will hurt his knee again and play 100 mediocre games while hitting cleanup every day because he’s a veteran. Huff is more than adequate for our current offensive needs, and he’s being paid peanuts with no long-term commitment. Berkman’s buyout is 67% of Huff’s 2010 salary.
Goodbye, Steven Johnson, we hardly knew ye. Seriously, that was short.
I remember that. But he mentioned that being traded to a contender wouldn’t mean he’d be with that team for the long term. Just wants to play for a contender
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/10: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Green and Gold Till the Club is Sold- LUHG
by Useful_Idiot on May 6, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Well we don’t like him either. So there.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on May 7, 2010 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
If Berkman can prove he is healthy, I wouldn’t mind seeing Sabean “kick the tires” on him. He averages something like 150 games a year, so I have to believe the injury risk is fairly small for 1.5 seasons. I just wonder how much the Astros would want in return though? Its not really a salary dump unless they really don’t want to pay the $2 mil buyout, so their asking price might be pretty high (prospect wise)
I'm a lot more interested
in an old Lance Berkman than an old Jermaine Dye or Eric Byrnes, let’s say that.
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"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
We can have all 3!
There’s our starting OF
Adopted Giant: Mike Krukow.
Grab Some Pine, Meat
K.F.I.S.T.F.
Hoping for BowkerMania to get consistent playing time at AT&T Park
who’s bodies are breaking down.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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Stop practicing for Jeopardy!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on May 7, 2010 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
He said that on Rome a few years back
These pretzels are making me thirsty
by NuschlerFace on May 7, 2010 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL SABEAN LIKES OLD GUYS
WHY IS BENGIE?!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on May 7, 2010 8:19 AM PDT reply actions
I'd rather take Oswalt off of their hands
Dumped Edgar Renteria and adopted Buster Posey. Biggest upgrade since George Jefferson moved up to a deluxe apartment on the east side!
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