Misc.
- The Phills made one of those “do you really need to be paying millions to guys like this” signings yesterday, adding Abraham Nunez and agreeing to compensate him $3.35 million over the next two seasons. Nunez is a good fielder but a career .248/.314/.326 hitter. He’s the kind of guy whose skills can be found throughout Minor League baseball. What the Phills will get out of Nunez for $1.65+ million per season, they could just as easily have gotten out of any number of freely available guys throughout professional baseball.
- Surely by now you heard that the Mets have guaranteed Billy Wagner $43 million over the next four years. For the JP haters, just consider that B.J. Ryan will be Wagner’s age when his contract expires so maybe that deal isn’t so ridiculous after all.
- Manny talks seem to be heating up and I have to say, I’m coming around. If there is any truth to the talk of Cliff Floyd, Lastings Milledge and Aaron Heilman coming for Ramirez, it would be just an unbelievable fleecing by the Sox Front Office. Floyd alone was a better ballplayer than Manny in 2005, and to get a dependable righthanded arm and a top-flight outfield prospect seems too good to be true. So it probably is.