SF Giants Rumors – Uribe Deal Is Close!
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by admin in SF Giants Rumors
Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com says via twitter that Juan Uribe is close to returning to the Giants.
Rosenthal also wrote an article on this with more details. He Says Uribe is close to returning to the Giants on a one year contract wit ha club option for 2011, according to a major league source.
It’s expected that Uribe will remain in a super utility role. The Giants are still looking for a regular first or third baseman.
King of Cali thoughts: Now this is nice to hear on Christmas Eve. At least we know the Giants are still planning on trying to make this team better. Let’s hope Sabean gets on a role and starts handing out contracts like Santa hands out gifts.
Even though this is just bringing back a player from last year. I see this as a big signing. Uribe keeps the Giants going on and off the field. This guy has this guys having fun in the dugout. He keeps the team loose. Uribe also is valuable in case Freddy Sanchez goes down, or if Edgar Renteria isn’t pulling his weight. I can see Renteria turning into the utility role if his bat doesn’t come around. Now lets hope this deal becomes official soon, so we can have at least one deal done for Christmas.
~King of Cali
also Buster Olney is reporting that Mark DeRosa is leaning towards accepting the Giants offer of 2/12
a little too high of a price IMO but I’m not that upset DeRosa is still a nice player and if we can put him in LF and trade for Uggla I would be very happy