Comments on: Incredibly, Taveras Signs http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2010/02/16/incredibly-taveras-signs/ It sounds like porn, but it's all about baseball. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amanda http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2010/02/16/incredibly-taveras-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-16074 Amanda Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:56:05 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/?p=3509#comment-16074 Hi, Ted, Welcome to the wonderful world of commenting on RHM. It's a pleasure to have you here. If I implied that the Reds were at all smart in their dealings with Taveras, I apologize. That isn't at all what I was going for. Hi, Ted,
Welcome to the wonderful world of commenting on RHM. It’s a pleasure to have you here.

If I implied that the Reds were at all smart in their dealings with Taveras, I apologize. That isn’t at all what I was going for.

]]> By: Ted Leavengood http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2010/02/16/incredibly-taveras-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-16071 Ted Leavengood Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:26:05 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/?p=3509#comment-16071 Just to be clear Mama, Taveras was signed to a minor league deal and gets major league minimum--$400,000--only if he makes the mlb roster. Regardless your keen eye for talent Zeldink, I assume he has a shot to make the 25-man roster in DC, although there is no lock that says he will. I think the Reds paid him considerably more than mlb minimum for 438 reserve outfielder atbats. He will be making much more than $400k courtesy of the A's who must pay him $3.6 million whether he plays in Syracuse or DC, that courtesy of the contract the Reds signed him to and the A's assumed in the trade late last season. That is what I understand to be the facts of the case, but I am always open to correction. Just to be clear Mama, Taveras was signed to a minor league deal and gets major league minimum–$400,000–only if he makes the mlb roster. Regardless your keen eye for talent Zeldink, I assume he has a shot to make the 25-man roster in DC, although there is no lock that says he will. I think the Reds paid him considerably more than mlb minimum for 438 reserve outfielder atbats. He will be making much more than $400k courtesy of the A’s who must pay him $3.6 million whether he plays in Syracuse or DC, that courtesy of the contract the Reds signed him to and the A’s assumed in the trade late last season. That is what I understand to be the facts of the case, but I am always open to correction.

]]> By: Zeldink http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2010/02/16/incredibly-taveras-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-16070 Zeldink Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/?p=3509#comment-16070 Calling Willy Taveras a "fourth outfielder" is a stretch, unless you were referring to in the minor leagues. Maybe in AAA, he'd be a serviceable 4th man. Taveras' OPS+ last year was 48--100 is average. I'm quite sure it'll take quite a miracle for the Nationals to get anything back from their $400,000 investment. Calling Willy Taveras a “fourth outfielder” is a stretch, unless you were referring to in the minor leagues. Maybe in AAA, he’d be a serviceable 4th man.

Taveras’ OPS+ last year was 48–100 is average. I’m quite sure it’ll take quite a miracle for the Nationals to get anything back from their $400,000 investment.

]]> By: Ted Leavengood http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2010/02/16/incredibly-taveras-signs/comment-page-1/#comment-16067 Ted Leavengood Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:57:03 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/?p=3509#comment-16067 Yes but we know he is a fourth outfielder. It took the Reds 438 atbats to sort through that when Drew Stubbs could hardly have been any worse. Yes but we know he is a fourth outfielder. It took the Reds 438 atbats to sort through that when Drew Stubbs could hardly have been any worse.

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