Thursday, January 25, 2007

Jeff Weaver?

Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Pirates have shown some interest in Jeff Weaver, along with the Cardinals and Mariners (via Bucs Dugout). Rosenthal has become kind of like a national John Perrotto in terms of rumors this off-season, but I've been saying all winter that I think Weaver makes good sense as a Bucco given his history with Tracy and Colborn. Weaver had two pretty decent years in LA with the two of them and is better than most of the rotation tripe we've been looking at this off-season. The question here comes in the price as Weaver is represented by the notorious Scott Boras. Boras has been having the best off-season of anybody, but the market seems to have dropped off recently and Weaver may not end up being as expensive as originally thought.