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The above is from Tom Tango's fine site.  Before proceeding further ... amigos might want to take a look at this chart and this chart.

Look at how MANY of those teams are right on the correlation line.  The Yankees (far right) are almost purely a function of salaries paid.  They have done slightly worse than they should have, for the dollars.

People want to look at the Twins and say, "money's not such a big deal."  You might as well look at the A's and say, "offense isn't such a big deal.  They do okay with better-than-average pitching."  That shouldn't distract us from the fact that as a team scores more runs, it wins more games.

PTI: Third Base for 1H-2012 (6 - Wright)

Q Spectator:  David Wright and Andre Ethier are trade targets.

PTI Jemanji:  Both names that, as fans, we'd love to see the M's get involved with  ... whether they would be good moves in the cold light of reality is another question.  One we'd love to debate :- )

Here, just quickly, Bud Hot Seat style:

WRIGHT PRO:  You are talking about a 29-year-old player who has posted 7.1 and 8.9 WAR (!) seasons.  In 2007-08, Wright was as valuable then, as Jose Bautista, Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez are now.  Maybe more.  Possible buy low.

Additional Bat Nominations

The Ms will have money to spend in 2012, but not as much as it may first appear.  As G-Money (I think) pointed out, Felix's contract goes up by $8.5M (from $10M to $18.5M).  And Bedard, assuming he's back, will cost more than the $1M he's getting this year.

So it's probably best to figure on one additional bat, who would go at LF (probably) or DH.  Nice thing is, as we've discussed before, those are the "easiest" spots to fill "on the market."  That's the beauty of Ackley-at-Second.

I bring it up now, because it is probable that many of these guys will be available at the deadline, and it isn't beyond the realm of possibility that Z would go get one now, in Cliff Lee fashion, and hope to re-sign.  Or, some of them will not actually be free agents but are arbitration-eligible guys who are getting pricey -- and no reason not to consider getting one of those guys this year either, since I think he wants to have a fairly "complete" team in the second half to make a running start on 2012.

1.  Big Dollar Guys

Offseason FreeForAll, Tough-N-Soft Hitters Dept.

Moe

What I was most impressed with, however, is how well he covers the entire plate RH'ed and LH'ed.  He can drill the down and in pitch into the corner or into the stands and he drives the outside black pitch into the gap.

He can play.

Minus signing a few MILB FA's, this has been a quiet period for the M's.  I think something is going to happen via a trade. Jack may be sitting on that.

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