You mean we can get Dunn for less than what we’re giving…opps….paying Figgins.

Look, this team lost Tex&GA from a team that FAILED to get out of the 1st round. Their answer so far is……….no one. And now we are expected to believe that a team with the 3rd OF/DH slot occupied by Gary Matthews/Reggie Willits and with guys like Rivera/Morales playing corner positions has enough of an offense to get it done.

Pay Dunn, and what risk is there anyway. If there is a more ‘get what you expect hitter’ out there than Dunn…I haven’t seen him. Unless it’s Matthews, where we expect squat, and that’s what he gives.

spring training starts in about one month and look who is still available:
orlando hudson, orlando cabrera, vizquel, crede, wiggington, abreu, ga, dunn, griffey jr., manny, irod, varitek, byrd, freddy garcia, garland, looper, pedro, mulder, oliver perez, pettitte, sheets, wolf, cordero, juan cruz, gagne.

And Adam Dunn is a base-clogging slug.

But I think you’re all right. And alright.

It would make sense, and I’ll bet, that he takes a one year deal to play as much as possible with a contender, then tries the market again next year.

GMJ is a sunk cost, no need to play him every day. And Willits is just a AAAA or 6th OF.

I don’t really expect the Angels to sign him “since his BA with less than 2 outs and a man on 3rd” sux, but he’ll make a bunch of runs for some team anyway.

If you go back to posts awhile ago i said lets get Dunn as he hits for power, drives in runs and gets on base. Bat him in front of Vlad and he will see alot of fast balls and deliver what he averages. We could have got him a few weeks ago with the right presentation for 8 -10 mil a year which is cheap ………………. sign him for 4 years. let him DH 80% of the time and when he plays first pur Kendry in right and let Vlad DH and/ or keep him on the bench against the tough left handed starters then you have him later on to pinch hit. It’s been a very long time when we could say we had a power hitter available to hit for someone late in the game. Come on this is a slam dunk and everyone of you know it ……………………. Tony ……………………. lets just do it !!!!

If his price tag is that low, might as well do it for as long as possible.

Then he would come off the books the same year that Gary No-thank-ews does, making it easier to re-sign should we want to re-sign him.

Dunn has “old player skills”, meaning that he ages poorly. Players who have no other skills than to get on base often drop out of baseball earlier than others. (Jim Thome is the only modern counter-example I can think of right now) While Dunn will be a good player for the next three years or so, anything longer than that is a risk.

but if this is true – it shold have been done yesterday.

I highly doubt that is the price though…

Reagins said in an interview with Whicker in the OC Register on 12/23/08 that he had spoken to Dunn’s representatives and that Dunn won’t be an Angel. http://whicker.freedomblogging.com/2008/12/23/reagins-it-was-time-to-move-on/632/ I’ve assumed it’s because Reagins told Dunn’s agents that the Angels envision Dunn DHing a lot and that Dunn refuses to DH. Looks like the Orioles also wanted Dunn as a DH and he said no recently. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/01/orioles-rumor-1.html Maybe this lack of interest will make Dunn change his tune about staying in the OF and accept primarily DHing; if so, maybe the Angels will get back in the picture. (I sure hope so.) Still don’t see him getting only $ 5 million per, though – he’s probably going to get around $10 million per for around 4 years.

From the Washington Post, which is following the Dunn story because of the chance the Nats will sign him:

Right now, Adam Dunn wants a four-year, $56 million contract. And who knows, maybe he gets it. Maybe he also gets a Lamborghini, a new house, and exclusive use of the Burj Al Arab helicopter pad. Maybe he can hire Pat Burrell to babysit his kid.

Across baseball, Dunn’s reported asking price has left baseball executives — including those at 1500 S. Capitol St. — with their eyebrows just about raised up to their hairlines. Certainly you cannot fault Dunn for trying to name his price, but for the time being, he seems nowhere close to getting it. One agent I spoke with today said that “I think Dunn will get a max of $5 million per year. Anything more than that and I’d be surprised.”

Also in the story: Dunn is reported as telling teams he is interested only in playing the OF, not at 1B or DH. That kind of eliminates the Angels if he is sticking to his guns.

Kinda like Andruw Jones’ two-year deal – although that one worked out bad. Get something, prove yourself again and try again in a couple of years in a (hopefully) better market. If that doesn’t happen, we should sign him to something like 8M/2 years. No one would have a problem with that.