napoli crushes the ball in the band box known as fenway, and the good splits vs. lefty pitchers.
I seem to remember something about the rangers didn't think he could catch all that often.
but could do a split between C and 1B with redsox as they have ross/lavernway and are said to want to move saltalamacchia.

that came out of leftfield with arod, but they must have known for awhile about his hip.
might bring back chavez, but not for every day,

when I read about it earlier, I thought about Peralta and the Tigers dealing him to yankees either a 2 team or like a few years ago with a third team. Peralta could go back and forth for them at short with Jeter probably not ready or 100% for the first month or so, and maybe as a platoon with chavez at third.

Tigers would need an upgrade at short with that scenario ever playing out, who do they get from yankees for Jhonny?
Is it worth it to get a reliever like Robertson, not enough, too much?

Tigers would need to sign Drew or trade with the Indians and the Yankees in a 3 way where Asdrubal Cabrera comes to the Tigers and Jhonny Peralta to the Yankees, the Yankees giving up a prospect SP like Betances or Banuelos to the Tribe (amongst a few other minor leaguers being swapped)?

His hip injury makes ARod just that much more un-tradeable now. The Marlins trade rumor a month or so ago was bunk or maybe the Yankees brass really didn't know that he was injured...yet.

Redsox signed shane victorino for 3 years.

Indians offered Victorino 4 years/$40+ million and victorino passed on playing at the mistake by the lake.

and the Yankees are interested in FF aj pierzynski.

Nice sign. Napoli is a good ball player, away stats are good and just might rip Fenway park up.

kalinecountry said:

Redsox signed shane victorino for 3 years.

Indians offered Victorino 4 years/$40+ million and victorino passed on playing at the mistake by the lake.

and the Yankees are interested in FF aj pierzynski.

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At this point, with the possible exception of the Royals IF they manage to upgrade their rotation, the remainder of the Tigers ALCD rivals appear to be potentially weaker than they were last season. Trading Shin Soo-Choo may yield less in return than the Tribe would like due to what the Twins received in return for Span. I wanted the Tigers to trade for Choo, perhaps offering up Smyly and maybe Boesch for him, but due to Torii Hunter signing as a FA, the need for Choo has obviously lessened, and he would need to play in LF. Hunter has only played in RF or CF during his career.

Would the Tigers be willing to trade Boesch and/or a minor league SP like maybe Crosby or Oliver for Choo? He has played LF for the Indians albeit very infrequently and not recently. Dirks would then become the Tigers' 4th OFer on the bench. Although Berry was a shot in the arm for the Tigers when he was called up to replace AJax when he was injured, it seemed that Quintin tailed off quite a bit @ the plate once AJax returned, and was not a very big factor offensively for the remainder of the season, other than as a pinch runner late in games. Nothing wrong with having Dirks and Berry, and/or perhaps Garcia in Toledo next season as insurance vs injury and Dirks himself was injured for a couple of months during the middle of the season, and the Tigers obviously missed his offense and defense while sitting in 2nd or 3rd in the ALCD during his DL stint.

yankees lose out on trying to re-sign eric chavez,
and lose out to signing jeff keppinger,

I tweeted Danny Knobler what he thought if the Tigers got another shortstop making Peralta expendable and if they would match up with the Yankees for Jhonny to play third trade.
he never got back to me...

so much for that thought... looks like the yankees offered yousuckilis a one year deal for around $13MM.

and the a's are interested in Jhonny.

http://mlbdirt.com/2012/12/06/who-are-these-new-york-yankees/
Who are these guys?
from mlbdirt

"Major league sources say that Napoli was set to be introduced [as the newest red sawx] in a press conference today but did not go forward with the event. It is not known what the holdup is, but the deal is still not official despite being agreed to early last week."

uh-oh..