Tuesday, March 01, 2005
DEBACLES APLENTY
- Rob links to an article that indicates the Angels are threatening to let Jered Weaver re-enter the draft. Let's hope this is just a negotiation ploy, and not for real. The Angels knew very well what the stakes were in drafting Weaver, and that Boras would be demanding big dollars. If they can't find a compromise, they've wasted a first-round pick for no real reason. Why draft an expensive player if you're not willing to pay?
- Doesn't it seem like someone should have made sure Kendry Morales' visa problems were cleared up by now? The last lines of this article, which I also picked up from Rob, say, "As the Angels await the arrival of Cuban defector Kendry Morales, their biggest concern is not knowing exactly when his lawyers in the Dominican Republic initiated the process of acquiring a passport. Such a process can take as long as three months, so if it did not begin until after he agreed to terms with the Angels on Dec. 1, Morales' arrival could be delayed further."
Tell me if I'm missing something ... it can take three months. He signed December 1. Let's say he files for a visa on December 2. One month: January 2. Two months: February 2. Three months: tomorrow. So shouldn't it be imminent, in the worst case?
Shouldn't the Angels have instructed Kendry's representation to get the visa process moving ASAP upon signing? Maybe they did, and this delay is not their fault. But if Morales isn't in camp in the next couple of days, someone really dropped the ball.
- The Halosphere is talking about how the Angels aren't offering K-Rod a multiyear contract yet. I was all set to get angry about this -- it seems like a good idea to lock him up now before his price goes up -- but in reviewing the articles it seems like a total nonstory, as though the beat writers just went to K-Rod to ask him about it so they would have something to worry about. If I were K-Rod, I'm not signing until after 2005, anyway, so this is a nonissue.
- Rob links to an article that indicates the Angels are threatening to let Jered Weaver re-enter the draft. Let's hope this is just a negotiation ploy, and not for real. The Angels knew very well what the stakes were in drafting Weaver, and that Boras would be demanding big dollars. If they can't find a compromise, they've wasted a first-round pick for no real reason. Why draft an expensive player if you're not willing to pay?
- Doesn't it seem like someone should have made sure Kendry Morales' visa problems were cleared up by now? The last lines of this article, which I also picked up from Rob, say, "As the Angels await the arrival of Cuban defector Kendry Morales, their biggest concern is not knowing exactly when his lawyers in the Dominican Republic initiated the process of acquiring a passport. Such a process can take as long as three months, so if it did not begin until after he agreed to terms with the Angels on Dec. 1, Morales' arrival could be delayed further."
Tell me if I'm missing something ... it can take three months. He signed December 1. Let's say he files for a visa on December 2. One month: January 2. Two months: February 2. Three months: tomorrow. So shouldn't it be imminent, in the worst case?
Shouldn't the Angels have instructed Kendry's representation to get the visa process moving ASAP upon signing? Maybe they did, and this delay is not their fault. But if Morales isn't in camp in the next couple of days, someone really dropped the ball.
- The Halosphere is talking about how the Angels aren't offering K-Rod a multiyear contract yet. I was all set to get angry about this -- it seems like a good idea to lock him up now before his price goes up -- but in reviewing the articles it seems like a total nonstory, as though the beat writers just went to K-Rod to ask him about it so they would have something to worry about. If I were K-Rod, I'm not signing until after 2005, anyway, so this is a nonissue.
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