"He had a handshake agreement with management that they would renegotiate the contract instead of...

"He had a handshake agreement with management that they would renegotiate the contract instead of picking up the option and they went ahead and did it anyway. He’s pissed beyond belief."

Carl Crawford reportedly wants out of Tampa

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have there ever been this many big names that are being

rumored as trade candidates. Once one of these guys gets traded, it sets the value for the rest. Definitely an interesting trade market this offseason. We have alot of depth. It will be interesting to see what some of these guys go for. I, personally, don’t want Crawford because we don’t need more speed in the form of a LF. I wouldn’t want to pay the contract either.

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by NothinG on Nov 14, 2009 12:17 PM CST reply actions

But if they threw in a high end arm, would you give up Cruz?

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by Keynes on Nov 14, 2009 1:43 PM CST up reply actions

only if they threw in Price

by MikeEl on Nov 14, 2009 5:38 PM CST up reply actions

You know what?

If the new ownership takes over fairly soon, and commits to deeper pockets, I could see a trade being made and an extension inked.

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by Conjunction on Nov 14, 2009 5:07 PM CST reply actions

More speed in lf?

Crawford could absolutely be the leadoff hitter and cf we need. He’s in left now because upton ( who id love for us to get but cant see it happening) is considered one of the premier defensive cf in baseball. id take crawford over borbon in a heartbeat

by ENDLESS on Nov 15, 2009 4:26 AM CST reply actions

Crawford

Has a career .335 OBP and 5.3 BB%. He’s a decent hitter, but he’s not really an ideal leadoff man. He’s also hasn’t started a game in CF since 2006.

I like Crawford, but he doesn’t really get on base enough to lead off, he doesn’t hit for much power, he doesn’t hit lefties that well, and he’s probably limited to LF defensively. Add to that the fact that he’s gonna be making 10 million next year, and he’s a free agent afterwards – there’s just not much reason for the Rangers to be giving up a ton of value to get him.

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by LSJ on Nov 15, 2009 6:33 PM CST up reply actions

I think his career numbers are still being affected by his first couple seasons

When he was 20 and 21 and got almost 900 ABs with an OBP of 304.

Since then hes had OBP of 331, 331, 348, 355, 319 (injury shortened season) and 364

I think you could expect him to put up a OBP closer to 350 than to his career 335 number. And that low walk rate doesn’t scare me when he consistently puts up a .300 average. I think Borbon can put up very similar BA and OBP numbers to Crawford and we mostly consider him our leadoff guy.

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by bigsteve on Nov 15, 2009 6:47 PM CST up reply actions

Crawford's OBP

His .355 and .364 years have also come in seasons where he BABIP’d .375 and .346. He’s always been an above-average BABIP guy (career mark at .333) but the one year it dipped to league average (08) he was crap.

I’m not a big fan of average/BABIP driven guys like Crawford or Jimmy Rollins because if they’re just a little off or unlucky they go downhill fast, and if they don’t hit for power they don’t have any other way of providing value. I don’t want to be trading for a guy like that.

I do agree Crawford could be a good comp for Borbon though, which is why I’m not sold on Borbon at leadoff. However, Borbon put up an 8.5 BB% between both the majors and the minors this year, (8.7% in the majors alone) which is higher than Crawford ever has. I think he may have a better chance at adding even more patience to his game and becoming a viable leadoff man that Crawford ever did.

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by LSJ on Nov 15, 2009 7:12 PM CST up reply actions