D.Y.'s gone to the
Ottomans.
And yes, that link's work-safe. Jeez. I'm not that
perverted. Actually, he's gone to the
Mets, to be more precise. Four years, over $20 million. Good luck, my man.
And the balance of power's managed to shift a bit in our fair division, too.
Minnesota's added
Carlos Lee for 4 years and almost $40 million, and while that may seem like a non sequitur, it isn't in this universe. The former
White Socker has put up slugging percentages of .653 and .655 the last two seasons, with one big caveat -- it's been in a total of about 600 at-bats, due to injuries and the general incompetence of Ozzie Guillen two years ago.
Yet another reason why this team is such a mess -- two years ago, the team won all of 62 games in large part because they could only find 262 at-bats for a guy with a .332/.386/.653 line. I took over, Lee refused to come back, and a year in Colorado later, he's set for life and poised to make us kiss his ass 19 times a year.
But, hey, we've got
Adam Kennedy, so it's all good!
Abject comparisons aside, two years and one and a half million for the former
Angel seems like an OK deal.
Kennedy hasn't hit much in part-time play the last two years, but put up a .287/.323/.399 line starting full-time in 2004 that was certainly useful when coupled with his solid defense and speed.
Ramon Vazquez will shift to short, and in one short year, we've gone from
Juan Uribe,
Julio Lugo, and the currently unemployed Joe Borchard up the middle to
Kennedy,
Vazquez, and
Raul Gonzalez.
Shifting deck chairs on the Titanic or actual improvement? Well, eternal optimist that I am, look at it as trading
Julio Lugo for
Adam Kennedy.
That would probably be in an article on the "
Most Lopsided Trades Evah Evah", so perhaps something's going right.