Of course he'll be offered arbitration.
It would be GREAT for the Dbacks if he accepted. He would become a highly tradeable commodity were he to accept (which he won't).
Unless he's a DH. IRC, JoJo's math includes a pretty big deduction for defense and rates his bat around 4 wins. Maybe I'm mistaken, but he just may be a 4 win bat w/o the defensive penalty.
I'm sure GMs wouldn't value him that way and would probably penalize him for limited defensive utility. Not that he'll go there, but a guy like Dunn in the middle of the order in Minnesota as a DH could be the missing piece.
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I find it very hard to believe that GMs will care about Dunn's D, whatever position he plays in 2009.
GMs will pay Dunn for his bat, as they should.
I don't think he'll make less money b/c he doesn't play GG caliber D.
He'll definitely make 10+ for his bat...
I don't think Dunn would be a highly tradable commodity. He wasn't a highly tradable commodity last year or the year before that. Now granted, they'd bet trading a full year off Dunn, instead of a partial year.
However, it's no secret that Dunn has been shopped almost annually by the Reds for at least the last 4 years.
Edit: Not a criticism of Dunn, I just don't think he's a highly coveted player by GMs.
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I would offer Dunn 5 yr 50M with a 1M bonus for every year he gets over .270 and 1M bonus for every year he walks more than 120 times and 1M bonus for every year he hits over 40 HR. Then I would let him choose LF or 1B and leave him there and forget about him.
WASHINGTON -- Baseball's annual General Managers Meetings commence Monday in Dana Point, Calif., and Nationals GM Jim Bowden will try his best to improve an offense that finished near the bottom in almost every statistical category in 2008.
Bowden was not available for comment Sunday, but a National League source said the Nationals are looking for a cleanup hitter and have targeted free-agent outfielder/first baseman Adam Dunn, Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, Rockies left fielder Matt Holliday and free-agent first baseman Mark Teixeira as possibilities to solve their problem at the No. 4 hole.
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/...=.jsp&c_id=was
"OK, I was lying about wanting to compete every year," said Dunn as he signed his Nationals contract. "I like going on those bus trips to leaf country. This way, my Octobers are free. "
Ouch.
Hey Dunn, here's 3 million extra per year if you accomplish something only 17 players have ever been able to do 39 times and 14 of them it was Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds.
of course you probably didn't mean all in one year.
Code:HOMERUNS YEAR HR AVG BB 1 Barry Bonds 2001 73 .328 177 2 Mark McGwire 1998 70 .299 162 3 Mark McGwire 1999 65 .278 133 4 Babe Ruth 1927 60 .356 137 5 Babe Ruth 1921 59 .378 145 T6 Mickey Mantle 1961 54 .317 126 T6 Babe Ruth 1920 54 .376 150 T6 Babe Ruth 1928 54 .323 137 9 Jim Thome 2002 52 .304 122 T10 Harmon Killebrew 1969 49 .276 145 T10 Babe Ruth 1930 49 .359 136 T10 Lou Gehrig 1936 49 .354 130 T13 Babe Ruth 1926 47 .372 144 T13 Ralph Kiner 1950 47 .272 122 T15 Barry Bonds 1993 46 .336 126 T15 Babe Ruth 1924 46 .378 142 T15 Barry Bonds 2002 46 .370 198 T15 Babe Ruth 1931 46 .373 128 T19 Chipper Jones 1999 45 .319 126 T19 Barry Bonds 2003 45 .341 148 T19 Willie McCovey 1969 45 .320 121 T19 Barry Bonds 2004 45 .362 232 23 Frank Howard 1970 44 .283 132 T24 Jason Giambi 2000 43 .333 137 T24 Jeff Bagwell 1997 43 .286 127 T24 Ted Williams 1949 43 .343 162 T27 Ralph Kiner 1951 42 .309 137 T27 Barry Bonds 1996 42 .308 151 T27 Jeff Bagwell 1999 42 .304 149 T27 Gary Sheffield 1996 42 .314 142 T27 Mickey Mantle 1958 42 .304 129 T32 Norm Cash 1961 41 .361 124 T32 Darrell Evans 1973 41 .281 124 T32 Carlos Delgado 2000 41 .344 123 T32 Babe Ruth 1932 41 .341 130 T32 Harmon Killebrew 1970 41 .271 128 T32 Babe Ruth 1923 41 .393 170 T38 Frank Thomas 1995 40 .308 136 T38 Carl Yastrzemski 1970 40 .329 128 T38 Jim Thome 1997 40 .286 120 T38 Barry Bonds 1997 40 .291 145
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