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  1. Bellhorn04
    The extension itself is 8 years 248 million for an AAV of 31 million, the new record. Wow. He deserves to make the most but again it's just mind-boggling how much money these teams have and how much risk they're taking on. Miggy had some health issues late last year.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I always go back to the 1980 Oakland A's as the ultimate example of pitcher abuse. Billy Martin had a nice young pitching staff that year and he pitched them to death. Have a look sometime - the innings totals were incredible. All those pitchers were clearly ruined by what Martin did to them.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Why do you insist on these uninformed comments? 100 is not the magic number. For most good starters it's still more like 110, maybe 115. Look at Lester's game logs for 2013. In 33 starts he had: 19 pitch counts of 105 or more. 15 pitch counts of 110 or more. 11 pitch counts of 115 or more. 3 pitch counts of 120 or more.
  4. Bellhorn04
    The inflation rate is outrageous right now due to the short supply of free agent pitching and the surplus of money out there.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I'm looking at it strictly as a risk/reward thing. If Scherzer has a great season he can turn 144 million into maybe 200 million. That's a marginal increase of 56 million less taxes etc. Arguably, it's also money he'll never need. If a disaster befalls him, such as getting hit in the head like Chapman and being less fortunate, he could lose it all. Going from massive wealth of 144 million, less taxes etc. to zero. So I think he's taking a huge risk for little real reward, except in the ego department.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Exactly. I'm an accountant. From an agent's perspective, Scherzer is doing the right thing, he's going for broke. From an accountant's perspective, he's nuts.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Oh, I can see that point of view as well. It's just that he's also a guy who has only made $14 million in his career including this year. If he gets some serious out-of-nowhere injury this year, he'll have said goodbye to 10 times that amount. It's a risky play from that perspective.
  8. Bellhorn04
    That is a crazy amount of money to turn down alright.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Cordero has pitched 8 scoreless with a .399 OPS allowed. Pretty hard to do better. Apparently Breslow will start on the DL.
  10. Bellhorn04
    The Yankees aren't using their starting lineup for these games any more than other teams do. For Thursday's game at Jet Blue the Yankee starting lineup was this: Suzuki Anna Nunez Teixeira Cervelli Sizemore Solarte Almonte Wheeler Like the Red Sox, they've been using their starters in home games but very few starters in away games.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I hexed him.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Man, old Cliffy Lee sure mows us down most of the time doesn't he?
  13. Bellhorn04
    Maybe Montero and Pineda will both have good years, who knows? That's the beauty of baseball. There's so much s*** you just can't predict, even if you're the world's greatest Sabrmetrics guy.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Your numbers are indeed correct.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Patience with the kids now.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Drew will get signed by somebody, even if it's not until after the draft in June, when there will be no draft pick given up to sign him.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Probably not much chance of sticking, but it's interesting they kept him up longer than Brentz. We could see him this year, that's for sure.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I'm hfxsoxnut on BDC. I was hfxbob on Sawxheads. So I think you know me pretty well.
  19. Bellhorn04
    He's a 28-year old veteran of the minors. .794 OPS in 3 seasons of AAA. He doubled and homered yesterday, but off Erik Bedard and a Santiago Garrido.
  20. Bellhorn04
    I imagine Girardi will do some tinkering with the lineup in the early going depending on results. I think Ellsbury is your opening day leadoff hitter though.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I think a certain amount of lack of focus and complacency is okay at this point. It's up to Farrell to get them back into focus in the next 3 weeks. I think he's quite capable of doing that.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Lester, Lackey, Buchholz and Peavy have pitched a combined total of 1 inning in spring games so far.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Grady Sizemore. I'm starting to get a good feeling that he's going be a nice surprise and a contributor for us this year.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Josh Beckett. I think Beckett might have a surprisingly good bounceback season. And yes, I'm basing that solely on the reports of his first spring outing. He seems to think he's healthy again.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I'm not much into those detailed predictions of what's going to happen in the upcoming season with final standings and playoff results. But I thought it might be fun to just toss out some random predictions of what individual players might do. First up: Jacoby Ellsbury. I have a feeling Ellsbury is going to have a big year. Not 2011 big, but a little better than 2013. I think he will be jacked to show the Yankee fans his stuff. He might need to be careful, in fact, that he doesn't get too jacked and hurt himself trying to do too much. So there you have it - just a random hunch, totally unsupported by any metrics whatsoever.
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