Saturday Rockpile: Mora officially signs, Torrealba's saga ends, more
by Bryan Kilpatrick on Feb 6, 2010 9:07 AM MST
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Mora signs with Rockies - ESPN
The details of Melvin Mora's deal with the Rockies have been finalized, as Mora will get $1.3 million to presumably back up Ian Stewart, as well as be used in some capacity to spell Troy Tulowitzki and Clint Barmes. Mora has played virtually every position in his 10-year career.
Torrealba, Padres agree to one-year deal - The Denver Post
The former Rockies backstop has apparently signed with San Diego for $1.25 million, according to Troy E. Renck. I wish him luck with his new team, and hope that the Rockies are able to keep him in check during the 18-or-so games in which they'll see him this season. Also in the article, Renck mentions that the Rox will watch free-agent Noah Lowry throw in the near future.
Inside the Colorado Rockies " First baseman Josh Phelps should add power to Sky Sox | Major League Baseball in Denver
31-year-old power hitter Josh Phelps is among four players who signed minor league contracts with the Rockies yesterday, according to Jack Etkin. Also on the list are outfielders Alex Escobar and Bronson Sardinha, as well as former Rockies reliever Chris Gissell. Phelps, who is a first baseman, adds some power to the Sky Sox, who hit less than 100 homers last season despite playing half of their games in the hitters' park of all hitters' parks.
Rockies' Daley, who shunned the draft to get his degree at Bucknell, is a key cog in the team's bullpen - The Denver Post
Troy E. Renck has his own "underdog" piece about Matt Daley, to go along with the one that Russ linked to yesterday. On a side note, it's absolutely insane to me that Daley entered high school weighing 85 pounds, especially because I probably weighed double that amount.
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I believe
I was around 85 lbs. when I entered high school, maybe less.
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How could I have been a foot and half taller than you by then
Wow
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 10:38 AM MST up reply actions
Yeah
I made the ladies swoon, lemme tell you.
Wait a sec, you are still a foot and a half taller than me.
Attention Whore.
Heh, not quite
YOu would have to still be 4’10"
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 11:03 AM MST up reply actions
Jeez, you guys were twigs
I was about 115 lbs and 5’2’’ or 5’3’’ going into high school. Then again, I was absolutely tiny in middle school and shot up in 8th grade….
Impossible not to have positive thoughts.
I want Sam Deduno to pitch already.
by bballrox4717 on Feb 6, 2010 10:58 AM MST up reply actions
i was about
88 lbs going into high school…didn’t break 100 until college.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith
I think I was 5'1" 105.
Now I’m 5’6" 125…….not much of a difference, lol.
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by Hollidayrain on Feb 7, 2010 12:16 AM MST up reply actions
So why
is that Matt Daley article considered premium Broncos news?
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Maybe Renck knows something we don't
DALEY TO REPLACE ORTON AS BRONCOS’ SIGNAL CALLER IN 2010
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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Feb 6, 2010 11:20 AM MST up reply actions
If they think Tebow's throwing motion is messed up
they could go to town on Daley’s!
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
wait, have the Rockies gained status and are now considered Premium News???
or is that the Broncos are such a mess that no one is reading Premium Bronco news and they need click throughs?
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That ITR piece
mentions that minor league pitchers and catchers report March 5, and position players report the 12th. This is great because I will be getting down there shortly after this, and the stuff they do in the first few days of camp are fun to watch because a lot of it is the basic work on this drill type of thing. Team mechanics come a little bit later.
JFK
Well good luck to Yorvit with the Padres
Please don’t suck like a Hoover 144 times and torment us 18 times.
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
Man this stings :(
Let’s hope he doesn’t know how to work with their pitchers…
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"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
We signed Josh Phelps?
I would always trade for him in MLB2K5 dynasties, the video game Phelps was a beast.
Attention Whore.
I think I always traded for Carlos Pena in that one
He was always Teixeira like
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 10:39 AM MST up reply actions
Irritated with DP right now
The whole “registration” thing is annoying. I just want to read the article, dammit!
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Odd,
Apparently we are interested in Cuban defector, Jose Julio Ruiz.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/02/odds-ends-kielty-ruiz-gillick-mets-.html
I have a hard time seeing it happening though.
I never heard of him before
What are his strengths, skills, asking price, age, etc?
Impossible not to have positive thoughts.
I want Sam Deduno to pitch already.
Hey Yorvit
You need to fire your agent…
The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
Kiheimahanaomauiakeo
Do you have you finger on the keyboard wrong???? Wholey crap that is a name right there.
What if the hokey pokey is what it is all about after all????
I'm guessing he just writes "Bronson K. Sardinha"
Woe to he who asks what the K stands for.
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
As if Bronson and Sardinha aren't strange enough
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 1:45 PM MST up reply actions
Damn those Finns
Why couldn’t they be Indo-European like everyone else? Why’d they have to go fancy and be Uralic?
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
I have fallen in love with the language, a bit
It’s really beautiful, in an oddly gruff and guttural way.
Funny you say that.
I did live in Hungary for four months; Hungarian and Finnish are both Finno-Ugric languages, quite different from anything else in Europe. Both languages employ suffixes as modifiers rather than additional words, so words can get exceedingly long. I took a Hungarian language course. I think I composed a fifty-letter two-word sentence :)
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 7, 2010 2:42 PM MST up reply actions
I know a few Hungarian curses?
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
Why the question mark? Are you unsure?
I know several as well, and Russ warned me for unleashing a few during a frustrating game this year
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 7, 2010 3:51 PM MST up reply actions
No I know them
and why do you get warned for cursing in Hungarian?
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
It was a "funny" warning
how did you come across learning these?
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 7, 2010 5:56 PM MST up reply actions
Looks Hawaiian
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 1:43 PM MST up reply actions
yep on the Hawaiian
I’ve been to Kihei and Hana, Maui….cool name…
but not better than Yorvit Torrealba
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"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
Holy Schniekes!!
Bronson Kiheimahanaomauiakeo Sardihna vs Sequoyah Trueblood Stonecipher.
I’m tired
Troy Tulowitzki - Best SS in the MLB - 2010 MVP
"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
Sequoyah Stonecipher is the best name I've heard, by far
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by Hollidayrain on Feb 7, 2010 12:26 AM MST up reply actions
Oh god imagine if they ever got married
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
Most unique homosexual union ever?
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 7, 2010 1:22 PM MST up reply actions
Well then Bronson could be
Bronson Kiheimahanaomauiakeo Sardinha-Stonecypher
good luck getting THAT onto official forms or baseball jerseys
Bronco utter fail: COMPLETE. When does the Rockies season start? Not.soon.enough.
hahaha- couldn't it be
Sequoah and Bronson Trueblood Stonecypher-Kiheimahanaomauiakeo Sardihna ?
ugh…my brain hurts…
Troy Tulowitzki - Best SS in the MLB - 2010 MVP
"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
Then there good ol'
Kalikoleipulama Sardinha….aka Duke, lol. Drafted by the Rawx too
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by Hollidayrain on Feb 7, 2010 12:25 AM MST up reply actions
Noah Lowry
What do you guys think of Lowry? He has had a lot of injury problems the last few years but if he stays healthy I really like him. I think if the Rockies could get him on a minor league contract he would definatly be interesting to watch. I think when he gets into trouble he is very much like Cook when he gets into trouble. They both tend to leave the ball up in the zone and hittable. However, he has a good change up and good movement. If he get’s his mechanics set up right and stays healthy he could be a good 4 or 5 pitcher. For me this is just a gut feeling, I do not have much of a statistical argument for him, but he has shown some real flashes of being a very good pitcher.
What if the hokey pokey is what it is all about after all????
Like I said before
He’s Haren’s best friend. Maybe he can tell us how to destroy him.
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His first throwing session for scouts was cancelled because he wasn't ready
That was last week. Sounds like a very long shot at recovery.
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Well, um...
when it comes to irrational fandom bordering on obsession, he’s not quite Rich Harden, but he’s up there.
I mean, ahem, with baseball? If he can stay healthy…where the heck would we put him?
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In the rotation if we get hit with a bunch of injuries?
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 4:38 PM MST up reply actions
Remember when Rich Harden signed with a non-Colorado Rockies team?
That sucked.
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
--Reds outfielder Adam Dunn, on the girl scout cookies he keeps in his locker
signing with a Colorado team wouldn't have helped me very much....
seeing as I don’t live there anymore. :)
"And I'm sick of all my judges/They're so scared of letting me shine/but I know that I can take it/So long as somebody takes me home every now and then" -- The Killers
him signing with the Rock
Small victories Squeaky, small victories.
Besides, I wouldn’t be happy with him on the Yankees or Mets…
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
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Me neither. :)
But he would at least be closer…But that wouldn’t help either, as I’ll be living in three different cities over the next two years and god knows after that.
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Our AAA starting pitching depth is getting crowded.
You know, if we ever have to add somebody to the 40 Man Roster in the near future… I think it’s going to be Greg Reynolds that gets cut.
With that kind of depth
Possibly trade for top INF prospects or a FA.
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hm, still too early to give up on him yet, isn't it?
I mean, say what you like about the tenets of Rockies baseball, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
I'm a big fan of this Sardihna MLC
I know it’s just depth, but he showed a lot of solid OBP skills in the minors, some decent pop, and could be a guy to watch should injury come a callin’
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Did we just sign Giselle to play in AAA?
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Torre made the absolute dumbest decision he could've made.
I know his agent had a large say in what happened, but how can you reject that offer? Ultimately, it comes from the player, not the agent, who says “yes I want that deal” or “no that’s not what I’m worth”. Come on now Yorvit.
nope, nope, we didn't do enough to retain him
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by Andrew Martin on Feb 6, 2010 4:50 PM MST up reply actions
Who knows what the real story is
obviously more went on behind the scenes because on paper its a fantastically foolish move. But whatever, no longer our concern and, as I may have said before, I’m not terribly inclined to feel sorry for someone who will make a million bucks to play a little ball down in lovely San Diego. Wish him the best, hoping that Olivo is the superior choice.
I don't know what's scarier
the extent to which Torrealba overvalued himself, or the extent to which our FO overvalued him. Pretty frightening that we offered him $5.5 mil over two years when his actual value appears to be less than one quarter of that.
We offered 2/$6mil
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 6, 2010 6:31 PM MST up reply actions
oh yea
you think they would have learned after he underperformed his last $6+ million contract not to offer him another one.
Well
he asked for six
we said no take this lower value
he said he wanted six
we increased our offer
he still wanted six
we offered six
he didn’t like the structure of how the six would be given out
we said good bye
JFK
pretty much
though I will still miss the “after a miraculous game-tying double fistpumps he brings to the table”
Attention Whore.
My take
I don’t look at it this way at all. I think Torre and Sand Diego both took gambles. Torre lost, while San Diego was rewarded with a bargain. I wish them both the best whenever they’re not playing the Rockies.
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just wanted to say…GO SKYSOX this year, lets not forget the AAA team just down the road!
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