Heating up
My baseball people are telling me things may start heating up on the free agent market. Spring training is a little over a month away and now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror and the new year is here, free agents will be getting antsy.
Pat Burrell signed a 2 year, 16 million deal with the Rays. Very nice signing by the small market team. He can DH for them and play a little outfield. He hits lefties well and the team last year had trouble against lefties. He should hit .275, 25 HRS and 80 RBI’s.
The Cubbies are also close to signing Milton Bradley to a 3 year, 30 million deal. Not sure this is a very good signing. There is no DH in the NL and they guy is always hurt. They will be lucky to get 80 games from him in the outfield. I wonder where this leaves Abreu? 8 million and 10 million for guys that are about as good as Abreu. He will be lucky to get 12 million a year.
Tex is scheduled to be announced tomorrow by the Yankees. It is funny how the Yankees sign these guys to huge contracts and then it takes 2 weeks to be official. I wonder what they do during the 2 weeks before it is official? They seem to get vetted better than an Obama cabinet member. The Yankees would never have signed Bill Richardson.
