If you ran a current MLB team, who would you keep?

[bigh0rt]

Evan Longoria easily for the Rays and probably easily over any other contract in baseball as well.

This. When you consider age, production, and contract, Evan Longoria is the best 'keeper' in the entire MLB. I want to say FanGraphs just did a series of articles on it?

[AquaMan2342]

Tigers - Is there really any question? It's Gerald Laird, duh.

[raiders_umpire]

Mauer. similar contract to Longoria's.

You sure?

well, not exactly.. but it's long and it's not Yankee money..

23 mill a year? What do you think he would have got in FA? 35 mil a year?

[DaSh 1s]

Reds Fan - Joey Votto no brainer.

[MTUCache]

Tigers - Is there really any question? It's Gerald Laird, duh.

lol... seriously though, this is a good question.

Cabrera's contract is pretty hefty ($20/$20/$21/$21/$22/$22 through 2015), but they don't have anybody else locked up long-term that feels even close to as safe. Verlander's deal jumps up so quickly after this season that he's really in the same boat, and with his performance so far this year it's a crapshoot as to whether that will come back to bite the tigers come 2013+.

Valverde at $7/$7/($9-club option in 2012) doesn't look all that bad, but that's still a boatload of money for less than 100 innings of work each year.

I think Jacob Turner is the only other guy in the whole organization signed past 2011 on a major league deal. Tigers are pretty much a clean slate at this point.

Gotta go with Miggy, no matter how much money it costs.

[Holein1]

Toronto Blue jays - roy halladay................wait.....what the!!!!!

[mweir145]

Toronto Blue jays - roy halladay................wait.....what the!!!!!

It's Ricky Romero. Though I might have been saying Travis Snider if he didn't get hurt 2 months ago.

[AussieDodger]

Oakland A's = Brett Anderson....... 0.5/1/3/5.5/8/12
Obvious post is obvious.

for my hometown Twins.. gotta be Mauer. similar contract to Longoria's.

Um

Toronto Blue jays - roy halladay................wait.....what the!!!!!

Hahaha

[wrveres]

Padres- David Eckstein.

World Series MVP's don't grow on trees.

[bobopal]

As a Met fan its between Reyes and Wright because they are the 2 Mets that weren't ridiculous overpayed for. But I have to go with Wright because less injury concerns.

just because a player got injured one season in his career doesn't mean he has injury concerns. look at games played and at-bats every other year, Reyes has always been one of the most durable players in baseball.

You obviously didn't follow the Mets a few years ago because Reyes has been injury plagued since he was in the minors and it finally caught up to him. Plus Wright has had the more consistent career besides last years mess.