At just 27 years of age, Prince Fielder owns 230 career home runs and three consecutive seasons of an OBP north of .400. He hasn't played in fewer than 157 games in a full season, despite his hulking frame. All of that will contribute to what's likely to be plenty of Prince Fielder rumors at this week's Winter Meetings. Let's run down today's:
- There is some growing optimism that Fielder could remain with the Brewers, according to Danny Knobler of CBS Sports. Knobler cites the slowly developing market for Fielder and the aggressiveness of owner Mark Attanasio as the reasons, noting that Attanasio seems to be indicating he wants to make a real effort to re-sign Prince.
- Fielder is not a target for the Nationals, according to MLB.com's Bill Ladson (via Twitter). The Nats already have Adam LaRoche and Michael Morse at first base.
- The Blue Jays have plenty of spending money and appear to be in the mix for Fielder, writes SI.com's Jon Heyman (via Twitter).
- Heyman also tweets that he's received some conflicting reports on the Mariners' involvement in Fielder. Two executives say they "badly want" Fielder, while two Mariners sources say they have little money to spend.
Blue Jays that may make the AL east interesting him and bautista back to back would be devestating
I know that AA has said that he only wants to go the FA root after all other options have been exhausted, but if you are going to go all out for a free agent this year it really makes sense for the Jays to go for Prince.
Man, I would love it if the Jays were in on Prince.
But I just don’t believe it, unless someone really credible tells us otherwise.
AA has said for ages that he doesn’t expect to make a big FA splash, and that he wants to focus on trades. Beeston has repeatedly said that he doesn’t believe in contracts for players that are longer than 6 years.
Unless Beeston and AA are intentionally being misleading (Hey, I guess it is possible considering how secretive the Blue Jays are) then I just don’t think it’s realistic.
Would frreaking love it though.
I feel the same way. I think the latest source of this rumour was somebody with CBS Sports Cleveland (according to Bluebird Banter), and who knows how credible that is.
TSN too.
Edit: I hate TSN.
I don’t hate TSN all that much. But I really do fear and hate Canada’s National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Those babes are after our gonies.
it’s incarcerated bob
It’s moments like this that I wish Miguel Cabrera were 30 lbs. lighter.
Great now they are getting my hopes up for Fielder… Im going to choose to ignore these rumor’s by plugging my ears and humming loudly while i continuously read all these rumors for the next week -__-
Imposter. You don’t grow rice…
You’ve got this thing covered six ways to breakfast!
I possess neither the physical co-ordination, presence of mind, nor self-discipline to handle it your way. So I’m just going to go down the hall and take a great big dump for the next couple of days or so.
And guys, no need worry. I’m going to be ordering in Chinese.
i hope fielder goes to Mariners. Ever since i read an article with Ichiro talking about his depression playing for the M’s I’ve started pulling for the Mariners
Prince Fielder would be the perfect fit for the Jays.
AA couild then package Lind with prospects to go after a high-end starter.T-minus 5 minutes before Angry3/Slider32 troll this topic.
Lind has no value though, he has back to back seasons of very very bad stats and he just turned into a below average first basemen. No team would want a package centred around Lind right now for a high-end starter
No value? He has a nice contract and some irrational NL GM will love those RBI’s. He’s only two years removed from a .935 OPS season.
If a common folk like us can see how Rbi’s and homeruns dont mean crap, what makes you think NL GM’s with a team of scouts and professional help will think otherwise? Besides, most of the irrational GM’s already got fired – see Jim Hendry for the Cubs and Wade for Houston. This isn’t the 1990s anymore. Everyone knows now that Joe Carter has had some of the worst offensive seasons with over 100 rbi’s, Lind is in that category
Randy Wells is 2 years removed from a 3.05 ERA, 146 ERA+. That would have been second to Roy Halladay on the 2009 staff…
Your right, Fielder is your game changer, let’s see if AA pulls the trigger. The Jays are not going to have a chance to get a power hitter like this for years to come. Add a stud pitcher like Darvish and you could be in contention.
…and now back to your cave little buddy.
Isn’t it cute watching the horse chase the carrot?? We’ll increase payroll. We’re in position to spend money. But they haven’t. And they won’t. Buy low and pray hard. The Jays new motto….
Thanks misinformed troll , now run along with your buddy slider32!
Must have hit a nerve. Team’s had an $80+ mil payroll 3 times, $80 mil, $82 mil, $97 mil. Doesn’t draw any fans. They’re ready to open the checkbook…
Texas’ payroll was 93 last year, 55 the year before.. they seem to be doing alright..
They also had a good foundation of players to build around..
So not really following your point..
Jays should spend money on players just for the sake of it? So that trolls don’t criticize them for not spending?
This is def boras trying to get the mariners to add more money to their offer
Did Prince ever live in T.O. while Big Daddy was playing here? Maybe he has fond memories of the Mad Hatter or Canada’s Wonderland or Greg’s Ice Cream or something.
Everyone loves Marine Land.
I’m sure they have fond memories of McDonalds.
Maybe Prince just likes domes!
He did live in T.O
all I can say about Joey Bats and Prince together is remember when frank thomas and albert belle got together .. nothing good happened like expected .. if i were prince id have to think long and hard about going to Texas not an overly tough divison and a good team and management in place
If Prince goes to Texas they are the best team in baseball on paper.
I thought that was the Red Sox?
Prince played with Braun, Weeks and Hart in Millwauke. He would make the Rangers a more formidable bigger scoring club, but I don’t see a steamroller going on there.
I think it’s Boras working his magic he used the Jays as the stalking horse last year also. Big Market team that has a small payroll and has said publicly that it will spend millions more when it wants!
I think Scott Boras has done remarkably well considering that he is essentially a throwback from an earlier, simpler time.
Way back when, in early pre-historic times, scary, slimy, sh!tty smelling creatures used to slither on to dry land from muddy bogs and putrid swamps, and just sort of take over.
I can imagine Scott Boras’ first encounter with a dinosaur.
DINOSAUR: Geezus!! You smell like sh!t, man.
SCOTT BORAS: Do you have representation?
IT BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Er, what? You know. Begins?
I wonder if the jays are willing to go and try for both darvish and fielder. They can afford both but are they willing to tie up such a large chunk of the budget to 2 players,
Fielder is a game changer for the team that gets him. It will be interesting to see if he goes to the Cubs, Jays, Nats, Mariners, Marlins, or Texas.
On tsn it says that he’s down to three teams Toronto Texas and milwaukee with Toronto being the front runner
A story TSN got from Bluebird Banter, who picked it up (and attributed it properly) to CBS Sports Cleveland. Not sure where they picked it up, but it is a pretty thin source for us to get too excited about just yet.
For some reason I have a feeling it comes down to the Blue Jays, Nationals and Brewers, and the Brewers only to a certain extent. There is always that mystery team, but those 3 are the ones that make most sense. A lot of people are saying the Rangers but their payroll is already at 75 million and that is without Napoli and all of their arbitration cases. Also Hamilton’s contract is up after next year and he will be getting a raise, so it just doesn’t make sense to me. The Mariners are also a team that has been mentioned but my gut feeling says they aren’t ready to commit to that kind of contract.
marlins, indians, angels, giants, dodgers, rockies…lots of teams might be in on him. who knows?
Ya I should have thrown the Angels in there too but I don’t think the other teams you mentioned are in it, I think the Marlins are going to run out of money at some point no?
Anyway, as I was lying in the puddle, I think I may have found
a way for us to get Bonds and Griffey, and we wouldn’t have to give up
that much.
Prince to Jays please. Pay that man his money.
Thanks.
lol…pay him…pay dat man his monee
Geoff Baker just tweeted Blue Jays are making it known in Dallas that they are not after Fielder. Now that is either true or like normal Baker has no idea what he is talking about or this was a scheme on Boras’ part…
If fielder is willing to take 5 or 6 years, I’d do the deal… I’d keep Lind and hope he rebuilds some value as a DH/LF/1B, you’ll be able to get him 500 AB’s easy..
Garza is someone I’d hope they’d explore.. but I would wait into the season.. I’d wait until D’arnaud is ready, and I’d make JP Arencibia the center piece of the deal,
JPA, Cecil, Mcguire, Mcdade, Marisnick for Garza, Marmol & Junior Lake
I think ppl are kind forgetting the fact that signing prince costs a pick. And in BJ’s case its 17th pick, I think that is too much, particularlly for AA.
they have another 1st round pick on account of not signing their 1st round pick last year
LIke Lunchbox said, they have another pick. You also trade the 17th pick for Fielder any day, the pick won’t be an obstacle for a player like Prince.
And they’ll get yet another 2 high picks for Kelly Johnson, the modified type A
probably not a 1st rounder though
Fielder would be smart to stick with a 4-5 year deal instead of a 7-8 year deal.
If he gets the long contract he’s 35-36 at the end of it, and will have to go year to year after that..
Where as a 4-5 year deal he’s 31-32, if his decline is gradual, he’ll still have the performance to get another 5 year or so deal.
Its a risky, shrewd move, but he does have the agent for that doesn’t he?
Noooooooooo!!!! I was looking forward to the post-Prince years ahead for the Cards.
Prince Fielder should be a DH, that will help him get a long career.He isn’t the worst firstbase man, but he isn’t the good one, either.
again to funny you guys are killing me
The Jays if they are in won’t say a thing, it is not above them to say they are not on this and still be on it