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Indians To Sign Nick Swisher

Posted by Darren Kritzer under Cleveland Indians, Nick Swisher, Trades And Signings on Dec 23, 2012

The Cleveland Indians have made a splash into the free agent market, agreeing to a contract with outfielder Nick Swisher, according to the New York Daily News.

The deal is reportedly a four year contract worth $56 million, with a $14 million vesting option in 2017, making the contract worth up to $70 million.

The 32-year outfielder, who played baseball at Ohio State University, paid a visit to Cleveland earlier this week, and was given the superstar treatment by the Indians front office, in hopes of convincing him that a homecoming would be the best decision for himself and his family.

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The Naked Courting of Nick Swisher

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Cleveland Indians, Nick Swisher on Dec 19, 2012

There has been a lot of talk this off-season about windows. Such and such a team is trying to keep their window for contention open for another year while this team over here is not quite ready to compete. The idea of a window is any given team — the players which makes up their core — has a finite period of time which they can expect to contend for the playoffs and beyond.

This concept is a decidedly middle-class problem. The Yankees window has been open since 1995. The Pirates live in a dark, windowless room into which no light or joy or hope may enter. The Royals pulled the trigger on significant trade, confounding pundits who believed their window to not yet be open. The Blue Jays overhauled their roster, emptying their farm system to move up their timeline for competitiveness from “never” to “now.”

Cleveland made a significant trade a few weeks back, trading their best player to Cincinnati as well as key members of their bullpen in a three-way deal which netted the Tribe center fielder Drew Stubbs, top prospect Trevor Bauer and some bullpen detritus.

A great trade for one year of Choo but Cleveland will surely be worse in 2013 than they were in 2012. Is now the time to load up for with a big free agent buy? Cleveland sure thinks so, going all out in pursuit of hometown boy Nick Swisher.

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Today In Poorly Formed Thoughts

Posted by Dustin Parkes under Jon Heyman, New York Yankees, Nick Swisher, Scorn on Oct 17, 2012

The perception exists that those who write about baseball without insider sources or media accreditation have no place criticizing front offices for their decisions. It’s argued that the proliferation of these uninformed negative opinions is insulting and unfair to the targets of scorn and ridicule, which is usually a team’s general manager.

I think that such a stance is a bit of a stretch, but I do agree that there’s a tendency among bloggers, columnists and reporters to be purposefully narrow minded in their considerations. This can be seen in only writing about statistics or only writing about intangibles or only writing about finances, without considering that perhaps, all three of these things and more factors inform a decision. Still, it’s those who are left unprotected by their lack of sources and access that are most open to judgment.

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