Pujols to Sign With Giants After 2011 Season
At least that's the way I interpreted this Buster Olney tweet.
@Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
Giants could be another possibility for Pujols. I think the Cards can forget about the hometown discount with Albert;top of the market cost.
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He says we're a possibility
But I don’t see it. Pujols won’t fit in the budget and we already have Belt lined up at 1B. Obviously Pujols is much better, but if we’re going to be spending $30mm we don’t have, it should be at a place where we don’t already have a great, cheap option.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
As long as we’re dreaming that they magically came up with $30 million, I would bet Belt would be willing to move to left field to make room for one of the best players in MLB
Then where does Neal play?
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
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The Captain can play there.
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Go Roger Kieschnick! And son, please continue to break scoreboards on your way to San Francisco.
Then where does Huff play for the 2012 season? And after that, where does Kieschnick/Torres (Brown takes center)/Peguero/Parker play?
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
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Seriously? Who cares? We’d have Albert freekin’ Pujoles. Projecting Belt/Neal/KieschnickBrown/Peguero/Parker to even make the majors, let alone be regulars… talk about nice problems to have…
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Sabes can trade those other guys for a SS
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
LOL fanshot
So Buster Olney sends out a tweet listing future possible destinations for Pujols, and then sends out a second tweet saying he omitted the Giants and you think this means the Giants could get him? There’s one possible destination in Pujols’ future, and that is St. Louis. Nobody would outbid the Cardinals for their franchise player, because the only two teams that can, are set at first base.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees because he wants to win the World Series. Wait, what???
by rxmeister on Jan 15, 2011 1:28 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Dude...
I would bet a very good chunk of money that the fanshot was ’chasm.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Probably. Es
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees because he wants to win the World Series. Wait, what???
by rxmeister on Jan 15, 2011 2:57 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
What I meant to say is no way the Giants even want Pujols after yesterday’s signing of Brad Eldred.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees because he wants to win the World Series. Wait, what???
by rxmeister on Jan 15, 2011 2:58 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
For the record
I generally agree with this and I can’t imagine the circumstances where the Giants actually sign Pujols. However, I think what’s actually interesting about this is that Pujols apparently won’t take a hometown discount from the Cardinals. Given this, I think the Angels and especially the Cubs are very much in play. They both have tons of money, needs at 1B, and, maybe more importantly, the Cubs would love to stick it to their biggest rival.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jan 16, 2011 12:56 AM PST up reply actions
Angels would have to trade Morales. The Cubs are the huge target for Fielder and Pujols. But Fielder will end up in Chicago and there’s no way Pujols is leaving St. Louis.
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
You don’t think the Angels would find something to do with Morales if they had the chance to sign Pujols? Why is there no way Pujols is leaving St. Louis? It doesn’t sound like him and the front office have a great relationship currently.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jan 16, 2011 1:25 AM PST up reply actions
I think they absolutely would
But signing a great 1B isn’t usually a big deal if you’ve already got a great 1B.
I don’t think Pujols is leaving St. Louis because ultimately the Cards will pay him whatever he wants. If Pujols leaves, the fans would tear down the stadium, and that great rotation would be wasted. He says he wants to test the FA market, but I can’t imagine anyone other than the Cubs would offer him more than the Cardinals, and the Cards would come close to any offer. It’s like the Yankees and Derek Jeter. Two months ago, we were hearing about how the negotiations are going horribly, Jeter’s pissed, the Yanks don’t want to pay him, etc. It’s not like there was ever any chance of him leaving.
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Well, there are great first basemen, and then there’s Albert Pujols. He’s in a different category altogether.
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Totally this
Also Jeter situation is somewhat different. He had been there for many years and new york would have kept them there as a franchise player. Albert is a on a whole different level than most great first basemens.
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by 27freethrows on Jan 17, 2011 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
SWOOP
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I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Jan 15, 2011 2:12 PM PST via mobile reply actions
BLOG LINKS GIANTS TO PUJOLS, OR PUJOLS TO GIANTS
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Hey, Aubrey ...
it’s been nice and all, but you gotta go.
Kidding!
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by FanFavoriteNo36 on Jan 15, 2011 11:20 PM PST reply actions
I must say. I would love to see Pujols test the free agent market to see how high a team will go.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
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I could see someone offering $30/year for 6 years. If he takes $25 per, I think he could get 8+ years. He’s truly an epic player. Cubs/Mets might make a run.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Jan 18, 2011 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
Dave Cameron at Fangraphs
suggests 10y/$267m
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
by SnowLeopard on Jan 19, 2011 12:03 AM PST up reply actions
no way
we need to pay and hold onto timmy, matty, posey, weezee, madbum, durty,,,,
not until zeets and rowand come off the books will we go after a Bonds like SuperStar
Trade Sabean/jk...Fire the Ydorks...
and having been burned in the Zito and Rowand deals
the Giants with a building farm system are gonna be cagy about big deals.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Then again
Scott and Zito are no Albert Pujols. The dude is the type of player where you know you can gamble on him. Zito was surprising since he won the cy-young, but I’m pretty sure Albert will never horribly regress like that.
Until 2020, that is, right after he signs a 4y $80M contract with us
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by i did my job on Jan 17, 2011 9:53 AM PST up reply actions
There Is a Tooth Fairy
and she’s gonna put Albert Pujols under our pillow!
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Yeah, that's how I totally interpreted it, too
Stone cold lead pipe lock. Getting the jersey now. I’ll assume he’ll wear # 5 for the Giants, since Uribe has vacated it.
(Kidding…)
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
yeah, avoid the rush – get your SFG Pujols jersey today…
by repeat_in_2011 on Jan 17, 2011 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
QUIT SITTING ON UR HANS
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
No way
way to expensive for a player that by then would be on the “downside” of his career, if he has one.
The downside of Albert Pujols’ career is playing first base for the Yankees.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Jan 18, 2011 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
They were stupid enought to invest in Teixeira
Can’t really get Pujols now.
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
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Teixeira AND the godawful Arod contract that’ll be paying him $25 million per, ten years after he’s dead. But on the bright side, AJ’s contract will end one of these days. That said, I’d still give them pretty decent odds to be the high bidder if Pujols ever got on the market.
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MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I think Boston gets Pujols
Between JD Drew and Ortiz alone they have what could be Pujols first year salary at about 26 mill. Both are FA’s after this year and I doubt either will come back. Ortiz you would think under normal circumstances, but if you could get Pujols instead you’d do it obviously.
With Crawford, Pedroia, Youkilis, Pujols and Gonzalez you have the nice making of a championship lineup.
I highly doubt they're going to take two plus defensive players
And DH one of them, especially if it means paying $50M a year for both of them. They’d have a ridiculous lineup, but it’s just too expensive with the money they committed to Crawford already and the money they’re going to commit to Gonzalez in a few months.
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Don’t forget they’ll be adding Gonzalez new contract figure to next year’s payroll, not this year’s (when he’s on the books for a bargain basement sum of $5.5mil).
Unless of course they back out of the handshake deal they supposedly have with him and let him become a FA in hopes of reeling in Pujols instead.
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MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
what are the chances?
Not good?
1/100?
1/1000000?
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