Giants DFA Rowand and Tejada

[PrinceEatMeat]

Wow, pretty surprising moves. They just ate a lot of money to do that. Rowand is owed $12 million next year.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/st...-aaron-rowand-designated

[monty57]

Proof that some teams with playoff aspirations dump underperforming veteran players even when they owe them money.

 

Interesting that this is done right before playoff rosters are set, so any playoff team would have to trade for them, and couldn't simply wait 10-days to pick them up. The Giants are obviously hoping someone will take the salary off their hands.

[pitchleague]

I'd be tempted to pick up Tejada. Don't know if I'd pull the trigger on a trade for him, though.

[nate82]

I'd be tempted to pick up Tejada. Don't know if I'd pull the trigger on a trade for him, though.

Why? Tejada is worse than Betancourt.

[pitchleague]

I thought the general impression that I was supposed to believe was that anyone is better than Betancourt, so why not?

 

(oops, forgot the blue text)

[joepepsi]

So the hope is someone will trade for Tejada and the Giants will avoid paying the September salary? That seems like a small savings to me. I can understand Rowand, but Tejada is only signed through the end of the season, right?

[monty57]

Well, they probably also wanted to get more talented players on their team to try to make the playoffs and did it now so that the better players would be on their playoff rosters.

 

Interesting side: If a player is DFA'd after Sept 1, and the team makes the playoffs, who can they use on their playoff roster (assuming they didn't have a DL guy to add)?

[sveumrules]

A friend of mine was in the Giants organization at the time of the Rowand signing and I asked him what he thought about it and I remember him kind of chuckling and saying something along the lines of "Let's see him put up those numbers in our park."

[brewmann04]

We need a defensive ss at the moment

[Funketown]

I thought about Tejada for a moment, but then I remembered he isn't really much better than Yuni, and Hairston is quite a bit better than Yuni. Do they have somebody waiting in the wings for CF? Rowand was struggling but he still fields reasonably well.

[Warning Track Power]

I know that Schierholtz is hurt right now but with Beltran in RF, Cody Ross in CF and Brandon Belt and Aubrey Huff at 1B/LF, I think they are more than set for the time being. Rowand had his time and was pretty average. Once Schierholtz comes back, Rowand is the 5th OF and that is an awful lot of money to pay a 5th OF, even if the contract is guaranteed.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Sources say neither got traded, so looks like they're out of luck with playing in the playoffs.