Wednesday, December 11, 2002

This IS the Hot Stove 

Had to put off finishing my bullpen piece last night because I was too busy deciding whether or not I would bring my letter of resignation to work today. No joke. The bullpen piece should be done tonight, and yes, for the moment I'm still employed.

The above link is to the MLB Trade Rumors page on a website called Pro Sports Daily, and it promises "Daily links to MLB trade rumors from every major newspaper in America." And man, it delivers. There's a page of links to rumors for each and every team from around the country, plus a page for links to news articles on each team -- which is kind of confusing, as there's lots of crossover between the two categories.

And sweet Jesus, you can find out some pretty harebrained plans. According to the New York Post, the Yanks are pursuing Todd Zeile as their potential DH and trading Nick Johnson to Montreal in a deal for Bartolo Colon or Javier Vasquez, another Montreal starter (I'll do a quick writeup on him in the next day or two). I can already hear my friend Nick howling over that one halfway across Manhattan.

Another Yankee rumor: according to the Denver Post, the Yanks are close to signing Chris Gomez to a $1 million contract as a (f)utility infielder. Gomez doesn't suck; he has a bit of pop (31 2B, 10 HR and a .410 SLG), plus he's a good glove man. Signing him is a fine idea if it means we get to watch the Yankees cut open Enrique Wilson's skull and remove all three of the marbles rolling around in there...

--posted by Jay at 1:27 PM LINK