http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.tejada13dec13,0,4195629.story?coll=bal-home
Two years after demanding a trade from the organization, Tejada was sent yesterday to the Houston Astros for five players - outfielder Luke Scott, third baseman Michael Costanzo and pitchers Matt Alberts, Troy Patton and Dennis Sarfate.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/wires/12/12/2010.ap.bbn.giants.rowand.4th.ld.writethru.0767/
Rowand agreed to a $60 million, five-year contract with the Giants on Wednesday, giving the club a Gold Glove winner without having to trade either of its top young pitchers: Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum.
"With this move, we will no longer listen to any offers for Cain and Lincecum,'' Sabean said. "We know the value of both individuals, believe me, maybe more so now that we've gone through this exercise. They might be the hottest two names in baseball.''
While manager Bruce Bochy had said Rajai Davis would get a chance to earn the center-field job in spring training, Rowand was brought in to provide a consistent, hard-nosed presence at that position. That means Dave Roberts likely will shift from center to left, replacing departed home run king Barry Bonds. Winn will probably stay in right while Davis and some of the other young outfielders share time in a reserve role. That is, if the Giants don't try to deal them - something Sabean said is a possibility.
anyone think this could be a precursor to a Matsui trade where the Giants send over a package of younger talent back to NY that might help the Yankees add some pieces to the Johan deal? Rajai Davis is a decent looking young CFer which might be in Cashman's plans to try & replace Melky in the deal if he decides to cave & include Kennedy in the trade afterall. Fred Lewis or Nate Schierholtz would be nice pieces to get our hands on too.
[Edited by - TMS on 12-13-2007 04:01 AM]After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
