Rockies Close to Signing Paul Lo Duca

Seems strange that the club (specifically, Jim Tracy) is preaching the fact that they haven't lost confidence in Chris Iannetta, yet they're about to make this move. I guess it doesn't hurt, though - it looks like they'll only offer him a minor league deal. We'll keep you updated.

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Oh, and sorry if this has already been posted in the comments

from the past two Rockpiles and the Street/Betancourt news. For some reason, I can’t view them at work. Must be some bad language in there :)

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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Jan 20, 2010 1:28 PM MST reply actions

this probably speaks more to lack of faith in Olivo or Phillips

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 1:28 PM MST reply actions

You're probably right, but it still seems fishy to me

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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Jan 20, 2010 1:29 PM MST up reply actions

This

better not speak of lack of faith in Olivo, or we shouldn’t have paid him so much. Lo Duca has been acting as an announcer for horseracing since he last played ball. I seriously, seriously doubt that anyone is thinking he’ll impact the big-league roster.

by Teekalong on Jan 20, 2010 4:37 PM MST up reply actions

This is only a minor deal so it really doesn't matter that much

but I’m not sure I like this signing.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Jan 20, 2010 1:30 PM MST reply actions

Shoulda kept Torrealba

I’d rather them pay a little extra for Torrealba than have Olivo and Lo Duca as backups.

by lunchbox8484 on Jan 20, 2010 1:40 PM MST reply actions

we didn't "not keep him"

we met like 95% of his demands and he still balked at it. Screw that.

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 1:53 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs

I still don't understand this situation. He wanted more money upfront, I think, than they wanted to pay.

Why shouldn’t he want that…?

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:06 PM MST up reply actions

He should, but that doesn't mean he can have it!

I’d love more money upfront, too, but I don’t think demanding it from my boss is going to get me it…

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:14 PM MST up reply actions

I guess what I'm getting at is....

how many contracts are structured this way? Is it unusual? I still think the FO may have misstepped by announcing CDI’s contract before coming to terms with Torrealba. Perhaps he would have taken the deal if that hadn’t been announced.

I don’t know. I’m just trying to understand. Its just bizarre to me…

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:20 PM MST up reply actions

I negotiate deals every day

And ultimately, every party has to have a bottom line. In this case, the Rox weren’t prepared to meet Yorvit’s demands, and Yorvit wasn’t prepared to meet theirs. I’m sure both tried, but ultimately they both have to share responsibility for not reaching agreement.

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:30 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs

That seems fair...its just kinda sad....

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:33 PM MST up reply actions

It's a business

for both sides, player and team.

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by Hizilla on Jan 20, 2010 2:53 PM MST up reply actions

How much responsibility will Lincecum share if he can't come to terms after the Giants offered him 8 million? :-)

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Jan 20, 2010 2:36 PM MST up reply actions

I think that is such an insult to Lincecum...seriously.

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:39 PM MST up reply actions

this we agree on

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 2:40 PM MST up reply actions

Me too

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by Hizilla on Jan 20, 2010 2:53 PM MST up reply actions

I'm not sure both tried for a single second

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 2:39 PM MST up reply actions

Why are you so bent about this?

Seems inconsistent with your normal takes.

by Teekalong on Jan 20, 2010 4:44 PM MST up reply actions

We offer 4.5

he demands 6

we offer 5

he demands 6

we offer 5.5

he demands 6

we offer 6, but we want our structuring

he demands 6, his structuring

GOD DAMN YOU DAN O’DUD AND YOUR CHEAP PENNY PINCHING WAYS HOW COULD YOU NOT GIVE EVEN A LITTLE TO MEET THIS OBVIOUS TEAM PLAYER’S HUMBLE REQUEST

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 2:38 PM MST up reply actions

whoa....dang...

calm down…

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:40 PM MST up reply actions

RMN is sort of right

Though you have to think that if the Rox are happy to go to $6m, then Yorvit’s initial valuation was a) right and b) worth persisting with.

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:43 PM MST up reply actions

true, but can you at least reach over just a little tiny bit?

It’s hard to move across this gap on our own

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 2:44 PM MST up reply actions

there's a joke about reaching that I will just step away from

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 2:46 PM MST up reply actions

STEP AWAY FROM THE JOKE

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:48 PM MST up reply actions

Ewwww.

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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Jan 20, 2010 4:32 PM MST up reply actions

dude, you have a link to you, naked in yr sig

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 4:39 PM MST up reply actions

I was afraid to click...

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by Muzia on Jan 20, 2010 4:49 PM MST up reply actions

As you should be!

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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Jan 20, 2010 8:07 PM MST up reply actions

loved torrealba

but i agree with RMN. i thought that was pretty bush league and it’ll be interesting to see how much cash he gets to play somewhere else. he might just luck out though, because it looks like it’s time for him to meet the mets, greet the mets and subsequently cheat the mets out of some of their never ending extra bags of money.

by oxmouth on Jan 20, 2010 11:47 PM MST up reply actions

Signing Lo Duca

means pretty much nothing. Tracy and Lo Duca go back to their days in LA. If Tracy were dumb enough to actually want to start Lo Duca over Iannetta on a full-time basis, it’d be wise to check him into a mental facility.

And Tracy isn’t that dumb.

by FloridaownsFSU on Jan 20, 2010 1:41 PM MST reply actions

It will cost the club up to $400,000

Not sure I want that wasted when we have 4 catchers already (and Rosario in the wings), especially not on a(nother) drug cheat.

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 1:42 PM MST up reply actions

It's non gauranteed money

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by Hizilla on Jan 20, 2010 2:54 PM MST up reply actions

Hence "up to"

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:58 PM MST up reply actions

They need someone

who knows what they are doing to catch the kids every day in camp.

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by Hizilla on Jan 20, 2010 3:03 PM MST up reply actions

i doubt it has to do with Iannetta

Since they recently signed him to a long term deal. I agree with others that it is insurance for Olivo.

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by TripleT-Rox on Jan 20, 2010 2:05 PM MST via mobile reply actions

Kick in the teeth for McKenry, though

by biondino on Jan 20, 2010 2:06 PM MST up reply actions

I'm actually okay with that part of it

but then again I’m on the conservative end of things when it comes to bringing up prospects…

anyway, I can’t say I understand this move, really.

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by Justus on Jan 20, 2010 2:11 PM MST up reply actions

Lo Duca plays 3b too right?

by cocainelips99 on Jan 20, 2010 2:53 PM MST reply actions

No

I think he might have played a couple of games there early in his career but I don’t think he played there at all for the last several.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Jan 20, 2010 3:24 PM MST up reply actions

According

To his Baseball Reference page, he has played 1 game at third, and that was back in 2000.

by controlled_slide on Jan 20, 2010 3:26 PM MST up reply actions

pretty sure it was sarcasm guys

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 3:54 PM MST up reply actions

it was, sorry i forgot the tags

by cocainelips99 on Jan 20, 2010 4:49 PM MST up reply actions

sarcasm or not

we already have a catcher capable of playing third base

JFK

by jrockies on Jan 20, 2010 10:23 PM MST up reply actions

'netta!

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by Justus on Jan 20, 2010 10:31 PM MST up reply actions

Yeah but

We lost our 3B capable of playing 2B to the Baltimore Orioles.

I hate the Red Wings.

by wtnelson on Jan 21, 2010 8:42 PM MST up reply actions

Our currnet 3b

has been known to start at 2B, even the day after someone else was awarded the position. Wait new regime, I don’t think that will ever happen again.

JFK

by jrockies on Jan 21, 2010 8:52 PM MST up reply actions

Stewart at 2B is nowhere near as cool as Atkins turning a DP, though.

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by wtnelson on Jan 21, 2010 9:01 PM MST up reply actions

Forget the DP

I enjoyed watching him range to his left and make that off-balance, spinning(?) throw to first. Good play from anyone, and he pulled it off well.

JFK

by jrockies on Jan 21, 2010 9:24 PM MST up reply actions

that was such an awesome DP

running over to 2B, touching the bag, throwing to 1B

“gee you aren’t a 3B normally, are you?”

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 22, 2010 6:10 PM MST up reply actions

Depth is good

If he can really outplay Iannetta or Olivio then give him a chance. If he can’t it is a minor league contract so no really loss if he is cut late in spring training.

by Arimaris on Jan 20, 2010 3:10 PM MST reply actions

if he can outplay Iannetta or Olivo then black will have become white and up will be down

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 20, 2010 3:10 PM MST up reply actions

and RMN will implode:)

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 3:23 PM MST up reply actions

and me and Sdcat will begin writing "Counting Rocks" next season

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by Muzia on Jan 20, 2010 4:50 PM MST up reply actions

oh dear lord....that's trouble

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 4:56 PM MST up reply actions

So here is what the weather is havocing

about 2.5 miles from my cozy abode…

http://media.signonsandiego.com/img/photos/2010/01/20/storm-obpier-kc_t352.jpg?980751187beea6fc26a3a9e93795d379f58af1c4

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 4:56 PM MST reply actions

that looks how my sinus feels

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Jan 20, 2010 5:02 PM MST via mobile up reply actions

aww....lol...I suddenly pictured that

ad with the giant nose….

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 5:08 PM MST up reply actions

an atypically volatile mother earth has been a hot topic of discussion lately :/

I have luckily avoided natural disasters myself. I was pretty close to the floodplain in the Fort Collins 97 flood. Also, while living a block off the Danube in Budapest, the river flooded, submerging my tram route to school and almost all of the island that part of “Munich” was filmed on

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Jan 20, 2010 5:17 PM MST via mobile up reply actions

scary!

back in 1998 was the last time El Nino struck I believe. It tore up a concrete pier south of Laguna Beach and of course the typical mudslides etc..

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by SDcat09 on Jan 20, 2010 5:22 PM MST up reply actions

The flood of 97 was on my birthday.

There were eight or so tweens stuck in a half-flooded house. It was kind of awesome.

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by Justus on Jan 20, 2010 9:41 PM MST up reply actions

Other than 3 foot of snow in Denver that time (hardly apocalyptic, but it made it tricky to get to the video store

My only real hardcore weather was the 1987 hurricane, which downed 15,000,000 trees in the UK alone.

by biondino on Jan 21, 2010 3:33 AM MST up reply actions

You can never have too many catchers

But he was only good thanks to PED’s and will probably pull a hamie the first week of spring.
The worst of this is it will probaly take a big league camp spot away from someone who could benifit from it and will take playing time form someone at AAA.
He does not have a chance on making the team and I for the life of me can’t see the up side in this signing.

by 2inonebag on Jan 20, 2010 5:13 PM MST reply actions