FWIW: Fielder Rumblings...

[JohnD]

If Boras can feed information to guys like Heyman, surely he can plant BS right in his own wheelhouse -- right?

The guy operates on a national level. The whole country, including sites like Yahoo!, ESPN, SI, etc., is his wheelhouse.

[Pedro Cerrano]

I'll personally be taking this with a grain of salt. I encourage everyone else to do the same.*

*Until Fielder signs with us or the OP is vetted by staff.

[RavNMadMan]

and away we go...

under/over 24 pages?

I'm going under....I hope this idea may be finally running out of steam....but I'm sure I'm wrong

[erb8472]

I am not at all surprised that we are in regular contact about Fielder. Why shouldn't we be? If his price drops to a reasonable number, we'd like to be in the game, I'm sure. But wake me up when someone reports that we are in serious negotiations with Fielder.

I doubt we hear of anyone being in serious negotiations. Fielder will sign first.

[El Gordo]

Two interesting articles to put the Prince sweepstakes in perspective:

"It will be a franchise-record opening-day payroll, but considering the Rangers have a $3 billion TV deal starting in 2014, and already have received more than $100 million in upfront money from that deal, there's plenty left in the Rangers' coffers"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/01/prince-fielder-could-be-next-star-on-texas-rangers-agenda-/1

"?Beeston said the Blue Jays ask certain questions of themselves before spending big on any free agent. "Is that going to put you over the top? Is that going to give you an opportunity to get to the point where you have that contending team, that competitive team? Does that one piece do it for you"

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/beeston-on-fielder.html

[Dagger420]

I wonder if JJ is recruiting him? Or at least pleading that front office look into it...

If we get Fielder, I'd officially at least watch games regularly again just to watch him hit in Camden.

Otherwise its gonna be another long season...

[weams]

Rob Neyer

"Have you seen him? He's short and fat. There has never been someone in baseball with his body type. Can he do this for eight years? Who knows."

[SammyBirdland]

I wonder if JJ is recruiting him? Or at least pleading that front office look into it...

If we get Fielder, I'd officially at least watch games regularly again just to watch him hit in Camden.

Otherwise its gonna be another long season...

If JJ can get Prince to sign here, I nominate him for Most Valuable Oriole 2012 right now.

[Hank Scorpio]

Everybody get their hopes up!!!!!!!!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up!!!!!!!! Quick, someone post a lineup with Fielder in it and a rotation with Jackson in it!!!!!!!!!!!

[PrivateO]

It really is pretty surprising the 2nd biggest FA on the market this year is still unsigned on January 19th.

[jabba72]

It really is pretty surprising the 2nd biggest FA on the market this year is still unsigned on January 19th.

Because its laughable that Boras thinks he's worth Pujols money+. Which is why the Orioles should stay far, far away, if his price does drop he will have numerous suiters. I just cant get excited about a fat man playing here even if he can put up a 1.000 OPS. Im guessing every other team feels the same way.

[erb8472]

Because its laughable that Boras thinks he's worth Pujols money+. Which is why the Orioles should stay far, far away, if his price does drop he will have numerous suiters. I just cant get excited about a fat man playing here even if he can put up a 1.000 OPS. Im guessing every other team feels the same way.

Really!? the reason you wouldn't be excited about him signing is because he's fat?

[weams]

It really is pretty surprising the 2nd biggest FA on the market this year is still unsigned on January 19th.

Well. It is what Neyer said. Anyone with vision thinks this is at least quite risky. I can't see that he is getting near what Scott promised him. He may be "transformational", but he is a unique body type. He offends both traditional scouts and sabermetricians.

[Dr. FLK]

Really!? the reason you wouldn't be excited about him signing is because he's fat?

That's odd. The reason I will be excited about him signing is because he's fat.

[SammyBirdland]

Well. It is what Neyer said. Anyone with vision thinks this is at least quite risky. I can't see that he is getting near what Scott promised him. He may be "transformational", but he is a unique body type. He offends both traditional scouts and sabermetricians.

I just can't see him signing for 5+ years with a National League team. Where are they going to stash him if he becomes a defensive liability?