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Cubs are not going after Dunn, and the Dodgers will sign Manny. The Cubs just balanced their payroll to go after Bradley, and there's a slight chance they traded away DeRosa to trade for Peavy. The only team after Dunn right now is us, and maybe a team like the Blue Jays or something, but they are not offering big money, 0 chance.
I think I read somewhere that the Orioles are interested, too.
wishful thinking by Orioles fans.
The only team after Dunn right now is us, and maybe a team like the Blue Jays or something, but they are not offering big money, 0 chance.
Pretend your not a Nats fan, but you are a hot commodity on the FA Market. Your whole life has been devoted to this game and the ultimate dream: winning the WS or being put into position to. You already have more money than any cop, teacher, firefighter, or average joe will ever see in his life, so your not worried about your finances.Does Washington, at this point in time, seem like the most exciting option or destination to you?Dunn knows he is running out of time. He isn't there yet, but the corridor is narrowing down for him. He is going to want to at least be in the playoffs. His friend, Austin Kearns, isn't close to the playoffs.
That assumes a professional athelete's dream is to get a ring, and doesn't care about finances. Maybe his dream is to have enough money to buy a huge yacht and sail the Carribean, or to just have obscence amounts of money. He can essentially double his net worth with this contract. If I were in his position, my concern wouldn't be getting the rign (how many guys went to the yanks over the last few years looking for one and ended up empty handed), it would be putting my family in the best position possible for what could be 50 years of retirement (at the very least drastically reduced earnings).
Why not have both? For arguments sake, lets say the Dodgers perhaps? They offer him both: a pretty penny and a chance to play on a contender. A situation like that automatically puts the Nats in the crapper.Be as it may, the chances of Dunn coming to DC are slim.
I'm just saying, if they are throwing out a one year contract, or a low ball number, and we are throwing out a multi-year for serious money, he may pick us over winning.
I'd actually like more than one year for Dunn, but it'd be nice to have maybe a club option for 2010 so we can decide whether his defense is too atrocious.
If all he wanted was a 1 year deal he'd have accepted arbitration from the D-Backs and be assured of a decent pay raise above the $13 mil that he made last year.
hey mrmadison http://www.wnff.net/index.php/topic,11663.msg314427.html#msg314427but i think our chances of getting dunn are better than they were for teixeira. we're just going to have to overpay, make an offer he can't refuse.
And hope that his best bud, Austin Kearns, has nothing but good things to say about the Nats.
can't accept something that was never offered.
Right you are! Dumb move by the D-backs or maybe it can just be blamed on the economy.
They don't think they need him - Jackson, Brynes, and Tracy to play some combination of LF and First- why waste the money on giving Dunn a raise?
Then they shouldn't have given up the prospects. From what I saw, they're blaming the economy.
