Tommy Jones

[mark1]

Was just on Xtra sports. Some of the things he talked about....

Tracy: Potential of Wade Boggs. Better than average defense, high average, will drive in runs, not alot of power. Jones also said Tracy is a gamer. Should be with the big club at some point next year.

Bruney: Goose Gossage stuff and mentality. Should be with the big club at some point next year.

Terrero: Jones said he can look like Roberto Clemente one day, and nobodys home the next. Great speed, great throwing arm He just needs to put it all together.

Marlond Williams: Jones says he has more speed than Juan Pierre. Thinks he could be a superstar.

Adriano Rosario: Only 18 but very advanced. Said he has as much upside as any Minor League pitcher.

Stinking Gumbo and Rash didn't ask him about Hairston, or Kroeger, or Nippert, the guys playing in the AFL.

Tommy Jones seems like a great guy. I could bend that guys ear for hours.

 

[AZZenny]

Yes, he has always seemed like a good man and has a good sense of his young player's strengths and weaknesses. He is at many of the Scottsdale Scorpion games, and I suspect he might be approachable.

 

[Lefty]

With the report that Hillenbrand is going to play third next year Chad Tracy will most likely be traded. Also, with the emergence of Valverde and having Bruney ready to make it to the next level, Mantei will also be dealt.

 

[moviegeekjn]

Originally posted by Zona90
with the emergence of Valverde and having Bruney ready to make it to the next level, Mantei will also be dealt.

If the D'backs could deal Mantei with his $7 million salary, they would've already done so... No one's going to touch him with that kind of financial obligation.

 

[Lefty]

There will definitely be teams interested in Mantei during the winter meetings.

 

[mark1]

Originally posted by Zona90
There will definitely be teams interested in Mantei during the winter meetings.

Please enlighten us all on how you know that?
What source of information do you have that the rest of us don't?

 

[AZZenny]

While I'd love it to be true, with his post-season complaint about pitching in pain all season, the only way I see him moving is if in midseason a well-off team that believes it's contending, but which has a bullpen from hell or an injured closer, decides half his salary and maybe a good prospect or the like is worth it. That's assuming he's pitching well and not on the DL. (And that we decide we don't need him.) Lots of ifs.