The seeds for this problem were planted eight years ago.
“Another day, another injured third baseman”
Tony Abreu, who yesterday played in his first game after being out of action with an abdominal injury, now has a gluteus injury (a pain in the, well, you know)….Joe and Ned met this morning, and pursuing a 3B from outside the organization was discussed, but don’t look for it to happen until later in the spring, after all other options are explored — and those options DO include trying Delwyn Young and Chin-lung Hu at 3B.
From a Wall Street Journal article dated December 17, 2004:
Adrian Beltre ended his run with the Los Angeles Dodgers, rejecting a six-year, $60 million deal with additional incentives for five years and $64 million from the Seattle Mariners. That robs the Dodgers’ lineup of 48 home runs and 121 RBIs supplied from a player who’s just 25, and has already-annoyed fans hopping mad.
From an LA Times article dated Mar 12, 2000:
Unable to reach agreement on a multiyear deal, the Dodgers renewed Adrian Beltre’s contract Saturday, upsetting Beltre’s agent and further complicating a difficult situation.
Facing Saturday’s major league player-signing deadline, the Dodgers renewed Beltre’s contract at $330,000 this season. Beltre, who made $220,000 last season, was given a one-year salary higher than most second-year players have received from the team, but that didn’t satisfy [Scott] Boras.
Assisted by the Major League Players Assn., Boras is trying to have Beltre declared a free agent because the Dodgers violated major league rules by signing him before his 16th birthday. The commissioner’s office punished the Dodgers by forcing them to suspend operations in Beltre’s homeland of the Dominican Republic, but the club retained Beltre’s rights.
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