5. Rangers- Yes the Rangers are in the top 5 in my eyes. And yes I know they lost out on Cliff Lee. But take away that and the fact they overpaid a bit for Adrian Beltre and they had a decent offseason. They brought in catcher Yorvit Torrealba as well as Mike Napoli via-trade [...]
02/13/11
A source close to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman says the San Francisco Giants wanted to keep infielder Juan Uribe in the black and orange. The team made an offer to Uribe for three-years, $20 million, but Uribe wanted $25 million from the Giants. Uribe eventually signed a three-year, $21 million offer from the [...]
12/01/10
Dominican infielder Juan Uribe has agreed to a three-year, $21 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, according sources close to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports. The deal is now official according to the Los Angeles Times’ Dylan Hernandez.
Uribe, a Type-B free agent was offered salary arbitration by the San Francisco Giants last week. Because [...]
11/30/10
According to MLB.com’s Jason Beck, the Detroit Tigers have reached an agreement with Jhonny Peralta on a two-year, $11 .25 million dollar deal with a club option for a third-year or a buyout.
Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes first reported taht the sides were close on a new two-year deal on Saturday. Earlier today, sources close [...]
11/08/10
Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes is reporting that the Tigers and Jhonny Peralta are close on a new two year $11.25mm deal.
Earlier this week, the Tigers officially declined Peralta’s $7.25mm option for 2011. Many believed this was just a formality so that a new two year deal could be worked out.
Peralta has made it known [...]
11/06/10
The Detroit Tigers have declined the $7.25 million option on Jhonny Peralta, according to the team’s twitter account. The Tigers will instead pay Peralta $250k as part of his buyout. The Tigers GM David Dombrowski said about Peralta: “We remain optimistic that a deal can be worked out between Jhonny and the club.”
Peralta’s option was expected to [...]
11/02/10
Jon Morosi of FOXSports is reporting that the Detroit Tigers will decline Jhonny Peralta’s $7.25 million option for next season and instead are negotiating and are expected to reach a deal on a new 2 year contract.
Morosi believes that the contract will be slightly less than the two-year $11.5 million deal Brandon Inge signed [...]
10/27/10
According to The Detroit News‘ Tom Gage, the Tigers and Brandon Inge have discussed a multi-year contract. Inge said he’s now “optimistic” about coming back.
The team also said the will not pick up Magglio Ordonez’s $15 million option for 2011, but would be interested in negotiating a new deal that would bring him back to [...]
10/03/10
When Cleveland Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo saw ex-teammate Jhonny Peralta before a game this week he mentioned that he would like to play for the Detroit Tigers, according to mlive.com’s Steve Kornacki.
“We were running in the outfield to loosen up before the game,” Peralta said. “Choo came up to me and hugged me. He [...]
09/29/10
If the last 20-games for Jhonny Peralta are an indication of what he can provide to the Detroit Tigers in a full season, it would be a no-brainer for the team to exercise the shortstop’s $7.25 million team option for next year. Thought to only be a rental, Peralta has been hitting .360 with three [...]
09/10/10