Reds just offered Bruce $51 mil for 6 years. Good for everyone involved. I think he's going to have a huge career.
MLB Offseason 2010-11
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It is absurd, but that's just the way the market is now. If the Red Sox didn't give him 7 years/$142 million, someone else would have given him something similar. Maybe something even worse. I honestly expected he'd get more than $142 million because of the Jayson Werth contract.You seem to be operating under the idea that I'm arguing that Crawford is a scrub, and I haven't said that. But the guy's a left fielder with a career OBP of fucking .337 and has hovered around 110 OPS+ for his career. And now he is the highest-paid outfielder in baseball right now, which is absurd.
^ I usually just give up and go to StubHub.
Apparently, there are two interesting transaction-related clauses in the Crawford contract: Crawford himself can block a deal to two teams, and Boston can specifically block a trade to one team: The Yankees. So even if someone were crazy enough to trade for this contract, Theo is so concerned about the Yankees that he wrote in a clause that allows him to stop another team from flipping Crawford to New York. This is like the paranoia that was in the Favre trade agreement between the Packers and Jets a few years ago (wherein the Jets would have had to cough up something like three first-round picks if they traded Favre to Minnesota).
I'm actually surprised the MLBPA signed off on the deal, as the idea of the former team dictating where a player can play is in the territory of the reserve clause.
I'm actually surprised the MLBPA signed off on the deal, as the idea of the former team dictating where a player can play is in the territory of the reserve clause.
The best part is that "sources" (read: KC's front office) have told ESPN that they have no interest in trading Zack Greinke to either Texas or New York, as neither team has the necessary prospects for a trade to make sense. So, whichever team loses out on Lee will wind up paying out the wazoo for Brandon Webb or Carl Pavano.
Still waiting for the day when an athlete holds out for an insane amount of money but then gets a career-ending injury and winds up with nothing. I wish it would've happened to JD Drew while he was playing independent ball rather than sign a seven figure contract to play professionally.
^ There was talk in the latest stories about them maybe trading Blanton if they got Lee.
Definitely a hell of a rotation. So much for the Rangers "feeling" that Lee would be back there.
Definitely a hell of a rotation. So much for the Rangers "feeling" that Lee would be back there.
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=phi
Everything I've been reading indicates that the Phillies will eat some of Blanton's salary to bring in a righthanded bat for the outfield.
This is just astonishing. I guess when Lee claimed how much he loved his half-season in Philly he really wasn't exaggerating. Based on all the numbers out there it looks like Lee passed up on $54 million guaranteed money, and 2 extra contract years, to sign in Philadelphia.
Amazing rotation...somebody called it R2C2. (Roy-Roy-Cole-Cliff).
Everything I've been reading indicates that the Phillies will eat some of Blanton's salary to bring in a righthanded bat for the outfield.
This is just astonishing. I guess when Lee claimed how much he loved his half-season in Philly he really wasn't exaggerating. Based on all the numbers out there it looks like Lee passed up on $54 million guaranteed money, and 2 extra contract years, to sign in Philadelphia.
Amazing rotation...somebody called it R2C2. (Roy-Roy-Cole-Cliff).
I'm not angry. Yet. I would have of course preferred to have the Yankees sign Lee, but it's a long offseason yet to go.
I just hope that Pettitte can be persuaded to return. Lord knows they need the starting pitching.
I just hope that Pettitte can be persuaded to return. Lord knows they need the starting pitching.
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