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11/10/2006 3:37:46 PM

link plz

11/10/2006 3:38:25 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/11/10/sheffield.tigers/index.html

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" The Yankees and Tigers have agreed on a Gary Sheffield trade, SI.com has learned. In return, the Yankees will acquire highly touted right-hander Humberto Sanchez and Class A pitchers Kevin Whelan and Anthony Claggett, according to a Tigers source. The Tigers will extend Sheffield's contract for two years beyond the one year and $13 million remaining."

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 3:39 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2006 3:38:57 PM

isnt sheffield like 876 years old and always injured and shit

11/10/2006 3:49:21 PM

before this year, sheffield hadnt missed time for a serious injury in many years

11/10/2006 3:52:07 PM

isnt sheffield that one that got accused of taking steriods?

11/10/2006 3:54:18 PM

fucking google or something

you look like a goddamn moron

11/10/2006 3:54:41 PM

ernie got roids too

HEMROIDS!

11/10/2006 3:58:27 PM

^^

11/10/2006 4:00:12 PM

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"HEMROIDS"

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"fucking google or something you look like a goddamn moron"

11/10/2006 4:01:04 PM

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"you"

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"a"

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"HEMROID"

11/10/2006 4:04:22 PM

Assuming Sheffield is healthy, then the Tigers did the right thing by trying to win now. The Yankees did what they needed to do and got some young arms. Sounds like a good deal for both IMO.

11/10/2006 4:04:33 PM

i dont like it and im a tigers fan

humberto sanchez is the shit

11/10/2006 4:10:53 PM

no way the yankees are keeping a couple of A-ball pitchers

they must pieces for another deal

11/10/2006 4:12:39 PM

Sanchez will likely be their 2nd best starting pitcher next year

11/10/2006 4:14:15 PM

Wow. Good news for Detroit, Shef is pretty solid in O.

Next year will probably come down to Chisox/Detroit. I'm still hoping for the Sox to pick up a decent outfielder to lighten the black hole that is Anderson/Scotty Po.

11/10/2006 4:14:48 PM

This works for me

11/10/2006 4:17:27 PM

i see the focus shifted from A-rod

im glad to have not given up anyone off of the MLB roster

other than maybe Todd Jones

11/10/2006 4:18:31 PM

I'm pretty sure the Yankmees are due for a down year in 2007. Everyone's getting old.

11/10/2006 4:18:43 PM

From what I hear the winning bid for Matsuzaka was b/t 38-45M and by the Red Sox. Solely to block teh Yankees from getting him.

I'm sure they'll go hard after Zito and Schmidt now. They will be fine with the $$$ Steiny will spend...

** That is the bid SOLELY to negotiate a contract with him. The seibu lions (sp?) are who gets taht money.. has nothing to do with the contract..

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : x]

11/10/2006 4:20:01 PM

the yankees will make some moves

it will not be a down year

11/10/2006 4:20:23 PM

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"38-45M"

3 or 4 years?

jesus christ that's a lot of money

keep your fingers crossed he doesn't do a nomo

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"That is the bid SOLELY to negotiate a contract with him"

oh durr

jesus christ that's a lot of money to talk to a guy

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 4:24 PM. Reason : ]

11/10/2006 4:21:24 PM

In my baseball expertise, i like to think I am the best at judging pitching and pitching mechanics

And from what I saw of Matsuzaka, barring an injury, he should at least be one of the top 10 pitchers in the AL over the next 5 or so years

11/10/2006 4:23:08 PM

i hate the god damn red sox

11/10/2006 4:24:14 PM

yeah. the red sox are awesome.

11/10/2006 4:25:05 PM

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"Sanchez, 23, was a combined 10-6 with a 2.53 ERA and 129 strikeouts in 123 innings with Triple-A Toledo and Double-A Erie this year. Whelan, 22, was 4-1 with a 2.67 ERA and 27 saves for Class A Lakeland. Claggett, 22, was 7-2 with an 0.91 ERA and 14 saves for Class A West Michigan"

All possible Rivera replacements

Some scouts have said they may need to convert Sanchez to a closer because his mechanics make him prone for injuries, similar to what the tigers did with zumaya.

I personally think he'll be ok. The he has lessened the torque he puts on his elbow

11/10/2006 4:30:17 PM

The Red Sox and the Yankees have the same basic strategy:
Spend $$, get talent, hope that talent equates to something.

What are they not doing? Developing their own talent... building team chemistry... focusing on the basics.

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 4:32 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2006 4:32:29 PM

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"building team chemistry"

never going to happen with A-god around

11/10/2006 4:33:53 PM

^^ i heard you guys are looking to trade podsednik

11/10/2006 4:34:22 PM

Tell you what. You take the roughly $250 I spent on White Sox tickets and go get remove scotty Po from the White Sox roster.

Win/Win

11/10/2006 4:40:40 PM

^ The Braves and White Sox should swing a deal to send Podsednik to the Braves for one of their young players. Maybe Podsednik would find his stroke again back in the NL and if nothing else he would give the Braves a leadoff hitter and a LF.

11/10/2006 4:57:07 PM

so the redsox had to pay around 40 million just to negotiate to pay more to the kid? dont understand how that works.....but hey, i am a novice when it comes to the japanese leagues

why don't colleges start making pro teams pay to negotiate with their top talent?

in the NBA, when a kid comes from europe, you just draft him, or wait until his contract runs up

11/10/2006 5:17:16 PM

In this case, he was under contract for 2 more years for Seibu or whatever. So they can choose to 'post him' for bidding to negotiate with him. Major league teams could bid in a sealed envelope for his rights, which doesn't mean they'll ultimately sign him. The highest bid is then sent to the Japanese team and they have 4 days to accept/deny the bid.

If they accept it then the winning team bid will be able to negotiate a contract with him. Olney said teh Red Sox had the winning bid but it turns out that might not be 100% yet..

11/10/2006 5:22:42 PM

so are they paying what the bid is? or is the bid just a start of negotiations?

how much did he have left on his 2 year deal. seems like they could have bought him out for less than 40 million. (unless this dude made 20mil a year in Japan, and in that case I would doubt that he would be headed to MLB)

11/10/2006 6:57:39 PM

11/10/2006 8:07:36 PM

who gives a fuck, baseball sucks

11/10/2006 9:46:16 PM