I hate to be all message board fan boy, but I keep reading stories like this that say Manny is in trouble since the Yankees are no longer showing interest and Boras pissed off the Dodgers. You have to wonder, could Jack Z make a run at Manny? There’s a story on USS Mariner about how the Mariners are going to be better than expected in 2009 and could top out at 86 wins if they signed at +3 win free agent to fill the DH spot. But what if they signed Manny Ramirez? Fangraphs has him at a +3 win player as an OF, but doing some loose math more like a +4 win player as a DH. We’d have to get rid of Jarrod Washburn to do it, so that’d make him something like a +5010321123 player.
I think I’d rather have Milton Bradley or Adam Dunn on a 2-3 year contract simply because they bat LH and Safeco is better for them, but if there is a big enough discount on Manny I think they’d have to take a look. He’s simply one of the best hitters in all of baseball and for close to the same price the Phillies gave Ibanez you have to consider it. This would of course cause me to be excited and then pull my hair out for the majority of the season. Since I love my bangs so much, I am going to vote no on this.
