{"id":233,"date":"2008-12-30T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:45:48","slug":"quick-hits-from-baseball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits from Baseball News"},"content":{"rendered":"

–Dodgers call Adam Dunn<\/a>:\u00a0 The interpretation by some appears to be that the Dodgers aren’t going to just wait around for Manny, and they’re considering Dunn as an alternative.\u00a0 I think that’s non-sense.\u00a0 The Dodgers are not dumb enough to consider Adam Dunn as an alternative to Manny Ramirez.\u00a0 This is just a ploy to get the attention of Manny and Scott Boras, and I still fully expect Manny to be back in Dodger blue next year.<\/p>\n

–Red Sox sign Brad Penny<\/a>:\u00a0 This is the kind of move that shows why the Red Sox have been so successful this decade, and why they’re probably the best run team in baseball right now.\u00a0 Sure, they have the money to take a $5 million gamble on a pitcher with arm problems, and a player in Penny’s position is more likely to want to go to a winning team, but the Sox just picked up a guy who only two\u00a0seasons ago had a Cy Young-caliber season, going 16-4 with a 3.03 ERA for the Dodgers.\u00a0 If AJ Burnett is worth $82 million, than I think $5 million for one year of\u00a0Penny qualifies as a bargain.<\/p>\n

-In a related story, the Sox signing of Penny would seem to make it less likely that they end up with Derek Lowe.\u00a0 It seems like Lowe may be destined for Queens, but it looks like it’s still up in the air.<\/p>\n

–Nationals sign Daniel Cabrera<\/a>:\u00a0 I like this signing.\u00a0 Another low-risk deal (1 year, $2.6 million) for a 27-year-old that has great stuff, and could end up being a\u00a0good major league starter if he can figure out how to throw strikes.\u00a0 I’ll say this: the Nationals are much better off making signings like this, rather than\u00a0handing $180 million to Mark Teixeira.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

–Dodgers call Adam Dunn:\u00a0 The interpretation by some appears to be that the Dodgers aren’t going to just wait around for Manny, and they’re considering Dunn as an alternative.\u00a0 I think that’s non-sense.\u00a0 The Dodgers are not dumb enough to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}