All Your Base Are Belong to Lincecum??

Holy Fuck. There are only a handful of players I would be happy to get in return for the best player on these Blue Jays. But if the Jays are able to get Tim Lincecum for Alex Rios, my balls will probably explode. A rotation of Roy Halladay, AJ Burnett, Lincecum, Dustin McGowan and Shaun Marcum would be fuckin' A. Add that to a stellar bullpen with the likes of Casey Janssen, Brandon League, Jeremy Accardo, Scott Downs and a returning BJ Ryan. That is some good shit right there.

There have been conflicting reports of whom the Jays prefer, the majority saying the Jays are more interested in Matt Cain, due to his durability and more advanced track record. But Lincecum has one year's less service time, and IMO is a vastly superior talent. Cain is the bee's knees to many in the baseball world, and the Giants are more reluctant to deal Cain as well. Which is fine by All Your Base, cause Lincecum is the shit!

Some quick Lincecum numbers from last year: at age 23, in the bigs, had 150 K's in 146 innings. Opponents hit .226 off him. 1.28 Whip. Nasty fuckin' stuff.

Do it Sabean! Rios is grande!!!

Red Sox vs Yankees, Again!

All Your Base's views on all the talk going on now....

Johan Santana for Phil Hughes, Melky Cabrera and some mid tier prospect:

Our View: Melky is pretty shitty mediocre, and doesn't help a team at all if he's the lineup every day... but he doesn't hurt the lineup either. He seems very milquetoast. Which really should be his nickname: Milquetoast Cabrera. So this deal is essentially Johan for Phil Hughes. Hughes would be under control for a half a decade by the penny pinching Twinkies, and he's a top 5 pitching prospect. It makes total sense for the Twins to be all over this...

But some say the Twins might prefer:

Johan Santana for Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie, and Justin Masterson

Our View: So the final two guys are basically at the level of Kason Gabbard who they dealt away for Eric Gagne. Basically, alright guys, maybe a bit higher ceilings. Obviously it's mostly just Ellsbury who is the highlite of the deal, and Ellsbury looks to be a good solid major leaguer. Johan is a top stud pitcher... worth way more than this deal. Twinkies are dumb as fuck if they prefer this over the Yanks offer.

So there's a lot of crazy talk going on now, but we haven't seen anything printed about some deal's we've heard from our sources, so we decided to put them out here, take a gander at these new rumors du jour:

All Your Bases' exclusive NEW RUMORS!!!:

• The Blue Jays will be talking to the Giants to test the waters out for one of their young pitchers.
  
  
• Mark Prior's days with the Cubs are numbered, with the Padres appearing to be his future destination. The San Diego native's stock is nearly at zero right now, but the Padres would be forced to give something of value for the still high ceiling but oft-injured talent. Former #1 overall pick Matt Bush is a possible exchange piece.
  
  
• The San Francisco Giants are considering moving Tim Lincecum for Miguel Cabrera.

Offseason Fun

The World Series is almost done, which means one thing, the offseason frenzy of moves is approaching. Pardon me for not commenting more on the World Series, but I work in the morning, and I don't feel it necessary to stay up until 1am every night to see the shitty Rockies play.

Unlike years past, this upcoming offseason appears to be one that will have little activity. Most teams have their superstars locked up, not looking to move them, and the free agent pool is very, very weak, with only A-Rod, Torii Hunter and I guess Andruw Jones being the premier guys available.

For the Jays, nobody is expecting a plethora of moves, and the biggest name Wilner has provided as a possible signing has been Brad Wilkerson.

However.

To tide us over will be George Mitchell's steroids report that is probably going to bury guys like Clemens and other future Hall of Famers. What should be most interesting is seeing whether the tide will turn with sportswriters, and their opinions of whether McGwire, Raffy, etc, etc, should be admitted with this new information available.

Post Season Post

I've let this site slide over the last few weeks. No excuses. It's the fucking post season, and a bunch of shit is going on that's worthy of multiple posts, not neglect.

Despite the games being sans Rios, there are enough superstars, and there's enough good baseball to help lose the sting of it being without the beloved Blue Jays.

There's a lot of groud to make up here, but let's just try to highlite the main two stories thus far that have unfolded.

1. Yankees lose. Exodus of players? Fire Joe Morgan, as always, has been all over this development, particularly assaulting the scribes who have somehow faulted A-Rod for his production. No further commentary is needed, except this factoid: Scott Boras has said couple of things which lead me to believe that A-Rod's contract could be the most mind boggling holy shit contract of all time. A quick overlook at his two main arguments helping to drive up A-Rod's price:

a) the revenue in baseball has doubled since A-Rod's last contract. From 3 billion to 6 billion. More money in the bank, more money to the best player in the game.

b) Boras figures that A-Rod can play at the level he is right now for the next decade, and play at a high level until the age of 45, citing other well conditioned ball players smokin' through their mid 40s today.

Couple these two facts, along with "The Sexiest Baseball Babe's" uncanny history of avoiding any time due to injury, and his ridiculous consistency over his career, and you've got a recipe for insanity dollars. The only negative against A-Rod's value compared to his 252 million dollar contract in 2000 is that he is is considerably older now. Still, though, at at 32, and a ridiculously weak free agent class this year, with suitors out the wazoo, do not be shocked if A-Rod's deal is over 100 million dollars more in guaranteed money than his last one. Do not be shocked.

2. The Colorado Rockies' deal with the devil. There's no other reason to explain it. The team is halfway decent. Tulow, Holliday, and Helton can hit, but only supernatural reasons can legitimitely explain how they've been able to be unconscious in their last 20 games. The team simply isn't that great. They're basically a younger, slightly shittier version of the Blue Jays. The only other reason I can think of how they are winning so much is that they are playing not very good teams. But they've played the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies lately, two teams in the National League postseason, with players the calibre of Rod Barajas and Doug Davis!! Gotta be Satan.