Prospect Insider - AL West movement: Volume III

AL West movement: Volume III

By Chris Crawford

By 12-22-2010

Only 10 days left in the 2010 calendar year, which means we're only about two weeks from pitchers and catchers reporting in Peoria. Not a lot of changes from the week before, and the market is starting to dry up. Let's take a at what teams have -- or haven't -- added this off-season.

[see WAR table below]

Oakland Athletics
Josh Willingham was a nice addition, but it still feels like the A's off-season is incomplete. With the additions of Hideki Matsui and David DeJesus, the lineup is much better and the pitching remains strong. It feels like Oakland was hoping to make a bigger move than this, however. Still a lot of time left, but right now the A's off-season remains somewhat unsettled.

Texas Rangers
No Cliff Lee, no Zack Greinke, no division? The Rangers still, probably, have the most talented team in the AL West, but unless they make another move they're putting an awful lot of pressure on young arms. It's also a little surprising we haven't heard them mentioned more in the 1B/DH market. Is Texas really that confident in Mitch Moreland? They probably shouldn't be.

Los Angeles Angels
(Cricket, cricket, tumbleweed rolling, innocence lost)

There is word that the Halos have offered Adrian Beltre at least $70 million to come man third base for them, but this off-season has been borderline lethargic in the City of Angels. The more I look at the Scott Downs contract, the more I hate it -- especially when you consider they lost a first-round pick to do it. Again, it's early, but it'd be tough for anyone to give them a passing grade right now.

Seattle Mariners
Outside of the Rob Johnson "trade" Tuesday, not a lot changed since last week, but another move should be coming sooner than later. As Jason and I talked about on the podcast, the M's still need to add one more starting pitcher, or two, and although I'm not exactly sure where they could add a bat, it wouldn't be terribly surprising if they added another hitter soon.

The question is who are those names going to be? Brad Penny? Jeremy Bonderman? Laynce Nix? There are still some interesting players left on the market. We'll just have to wait and see what type of move is next.

AL West Player Movement
Team	WAR In	WAR Out	Total
Oakland Athletics	6.5	3.9	2.6
Texas Rangers	2.4	6.3	-3.9
Los Angeles Angels	2.8	1.9	0.9
Seattle Mariners	6.6	-0.3	6.9

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