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Pettitte, Wiggy to become Astros?

John Perrotto of Baseball Prospectus handicaps the race for the top 16 remaining free agents. For those who don't have a subscription, Perrotto notes Pettitte backed himself into a corner by not re-signing with the Yankees and most likely will sign with Houston for a reduced price. Teams have shown interest in Wigginton, but his landing spot may be Minute Maid Park as well. I don't see either of these two coming back here, given Ed and Drayton's statements to the contrary.

For what it's worth:

The free agents are ranked by WARP3- wins above replacement player...supposing that both Pettitte and Wigginton would take a spot in the starting lineup from replacement level players, a +5.5 wins could be the result. Again though, this would take a payroll bump of more than $10 million most likely.

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by jsams on Jan 11, 2009 11:51 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I suppose stranger things have happened.

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by DyingQuail on Jan 12, 2009 12:07 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'd be extremely optimistic if we signed both these guys.

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by jsams on Jan 12, 2009 12:18 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The last I saw, the Orioles were linked to Wigginton...

O’s were looking at Wigginton for 1st base. I don’t know what they would do with Huff (DH, maybe?) Anyway, the article quoted the O’s manager as saying that Wigginton and Freel (whom they traded for) are the types of personalitiies they want to build their team around.

by clack on Jan 12, 2009 7:27 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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