Saturday in the Park Hot Stove

Paid by the pound?

While CC Sabathia counts the days until he signs a mega-deal, the Daily News' Anthony McCarron warns about taking on bloated contracts (i.e. Kevin Brown). Meanwhile a source says the Yankees are willing to increase their offer should the Angels or any other team match or top the Yankees current offer to the left-hander.
Blue Jays fans shouldn't get too excited. The (Toronto) Star says that if the Blue Jays don't re-sign A.J. Burnett, they won't necessarily spend the money, earmarked for him, elsewhere.

The Red Sox continue to tinker with their bullpen. They picked up Wes Littleton from the Rangers on Friday for two players to be named or cash. The Sox meanwhile should announce the signing of Japanese amateur Junichi Tazawa in the coming week. Tazawa called the Rangers, Mariners, and Braves to let them know he was rejecting their offers.

Reliever Mike Koplove was signed by the Phillies on Friday. Meantime, Alan Embree is getting some feelers from the Rockies.

The Cubs are the latest team to try to obtain Jake Peavy, despite Lou Piniella's statement that their pitching was set.

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Theo Takes His Cut

With the Red Sox and Angels scheduled to open the season in Japan, Sox GM Theo Epstein took the opportunity to take a shot at the Yankees yesterday.

"Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina spent the whole time bitching about it ... by the time the Yankees team got back from the trip they were all using it as a crutch."

"The research that we did on the Japan trip from the teams that have gone previously," Epstein said, "is one or two bad apples can spoil the lot. As long as we keep the Brown-and-Mussina approach from infiltrating our clubhouse, I think (we) will get out of it as a team-building experience."

We think we can speak for all Yankees fans when we say, "shut your hole Theo!". We won't even comment on Kevin Brown, who was and is a dirtbag in our book. And we know Moose can be a baby, but he's our baby, and we'll be the ones to rag on him.

Theo, you know damn well you have had steroid users in that clubhouse, you have the Queen Bitch in Schilling, and the laziest player in baseball in Manny. So once again, from all of us...

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