The Hot Stove season has just started up,so let's call it the warm stove as each of our three teams have made moves big and small to improve for the 2014 season.We start in Cleveland as the Wahoos have signed their starting right fielder for 2014 in David Murphy to a two year deal.
The lefty swinging Murphy will likely platoon in right for the Tribe,but lefthanded hitters usually play more in a platoon than their righty batting counterparts.
Murphy struggled last season ( .220 13HR 45 RBI) after his best season in 2012 in his seven seasons with the Rangers and there is no guarantee with Murphy that he will bounce back to previous form.
I would still imagine Murphy will be good for the numbers that he generally put up in Arlington (.270-.280 15 or so homers),but perhaps last season is the beginning of a steep decline.
The Giants added a aging but still solid arm to their rotation in inking former Brave Tim Hudson to a two year deal worth 23 million.
Hudson was off to a rough start last season,but had a strong last month before his season ended after a gruesome ankle injury in July.
The contract returns Hudson to the Bay Area,where he started his career in Oakland for the first six years of his career.
Hudson is 38 and the contract does seem high on the surface,but watch the numbers that pitchers sign for soon and you might think the Giants got a bargain for striking first.
Hudson will fill the fourth slot in the San Francisco rotation behind Matt Cain,Tim Lincecum and Madison Bumgarner....
The Pirates made a minor deal with the Twins as the team reacquired Duke Welker from Minnesota for Kris Johnson.
Johnson pitched well at AAA Indianapolis,but does not look to have a slot available in the rotation and ranks behind several others in the system.
Welker could find a spot in the bullpen with some of the changes in the pen for next year.
Johnson should have a chance to join the Minnesota rotation,so this might one of those deals that help both teams....
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