Dodgers Sign Claudio Vargas To A One-Year Deal

One of the greatest lines we hear about a baseball star today is "Manny being Manny" and whenever we hear it we just chuckle to ourselves and just nod in agreement. But do we know what Manny being Manny really means?

Former Mets pitcher, Claudio Vargas, signed a one year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the LA Times reports.In 37 big league innings with the Mets last year, Vargas posted a 4.62 ERA and accumulated a mere 20 strike outs.The Mets had hoped last year that Vargas would possibly be an answer to their pitching woes, especially after the season ending injury to Orlando Hernandez, however...

Manny Ramirez is still on the free agent market, and the Dodgers still have a huge gap in left field. Given the sinking market for corner outfielders, the Dodgers seem to be in a great situation. So what are the options?Manny RamirezHe claims to be looking for 4 years and 100 million, but the ...

When Andruw Jones was entering his final season in Atlanta, he was a sure fire megadeal superstar, a perennial Golden Glove winner and a guy who some analysts legitimately felt was the best center fielder in the game. Now? He?s having to defer $12 million of the final year of his contract just ...

Earlier tonight I came across a blip on rotoworld which suggested that the Dodgers were working out a way to cut ties with outfielder Andruw Jones. Below is the excerpt from the site. Their comments are in italics. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Dodgers are working on a deal that would allow them to [...]

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Just connecting a few dots here, the Dodgers have worked out a deal with Andruw Jones to defer most of his salary. Jones is a Boras client and this now frees up a significant amount of salary for the Dodgers to sign another Boras client Manny Ramirez. Just last week it was reported that the Mets ...

The Miami Herald is reporting that the Marlins and Scott Proctor have come to terms on a one year deal worth about 750,000 dollars. Proctor, 32, has to pass a physical before the deal is official, and he had elbow problems last season. Proctor was 2-0 with a 6.05 ERA in 41 games for the Dodgers last season, but finished his final eight games with a 2.57 ERA. Proctor had a 3.81 ERA...

I know it sounds strange. We provide plenty of links and explanations of what this means and why it is happening.

We stated yesterday that Mets were wrong to lowball Derek Lowe with their first contract offer to him. Turns out we were right.

Well, 2009 is here, and the Yankees still have a few questions they need to answer--even if they did the impossible and signed Sabathia, Teixiera and Burnett.The biggest question, perhaps, is what to do with Andy Pettitte.If the season were to start tomorrow the Yankees' starting rotation would be:CC ...

Gil Hodges was a World Champion, not only as a player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955 and the L.A. Dodgers in 1959, but as a manager of the “Miracle Mets” in 1969.? He hit 370 homers in 18 total seasons spent mostly with the Dodgers.? Hodges had a stellar year in 1954 when he [...] ...

As it has been recently, today is another slow day for Yankees news, so here's some more news from around the league involving two former Yankees.From Buster Olney:Keep hearing this: Thanks to circumstance, players such as Jason Giambi and Bobby Abreu might be forced to settle for one-year offers.Giambi only deserves a one-year deal, but I'm surprised there's nobody out...

I've believed that Derek Lowe was the perfect fit for this team since he was pitching in the playoffs for the Dodgers. So for the Mets to be in actual contract discussions with Lowe, of course the neurotic Mets fan is going to come out and believe at any moment, just when everything appears to ...

Call it heresy or hypocrisy on my part, but could Andruw Jones be an attractive option for the Mets with a restructured contract? Hearing reports that his new salary for 2009 will be around $5 million dollars, it might make sense to revisit the Castillo-Jones swap reported earlier in the week. This swap on the [...]