Bellhorn04
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It's 2 counting the team option for 2015 at minimum salary - because of the TJ surgery - the contract had a clause about this.
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According to FanGraphs Lackey has given $38.9 million value to the Sox so far. Big if, but if he can give them 2 more years of $15 million value that would be $69 million value on a cost of $83 million.
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Sox have acquired RP Burke Badenhop from Milwaukee for a minor leaguer. Note: Badenhop's middle name is Heinrich.
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'Shown interest' isn't saying much of course.
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He's f***ed. He's just trying to take Selig down with him. At this point the best case for us is the Yankees have to keep paying him.
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Depends on the closer. Many closers have registered 5-out saves, including Foulke and Papelbon. Uehara even did it this year.
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True, but...in 1978, after Torrez exited with the score 3-2 Yankees, Bob Stanley gave up an RBI double to Munson and a home run to Reggie, and we ended up losing 5-4. And if Grady had a lights-out closer he likely would have removed Pedro for him.
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I think it'll count as 4.28 million toward their cap every year for 7 years. The Red Sox are paying about 3.9 million a year for 3 years on the Dodger trade and that's what counts toward the cap for them.
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I think my obsession with closers is because of the history of the Red Sox. So many of those epic defeats of the Sox, we blew the lead late in the game. 1975 Game 7, 1978 playoff game, 1986 Game 6, 2003 Game 7.
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This is questionable. The Sox won the World Series with hardly anyone besides Ortiz posting good offensive numbers. Good answer on the D'Backs.
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The 1984 Tigers?
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Definitely not.
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But Wainwright, who was the emergency closer in 2006, had 9.2 scoreless innings that postseason. Here's a question/challenge: when was the last time a team won the World Series in spite of their closer pitching poorly in that postseason?
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I checked Atlanta and Kimbrel was the leader by miles. I will make a friendly bet that if we take all the closers and all the #1 setup men, the closers will have the edge. It'll be my project for the weekend.
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This would have to be analyzed, but I am guessing that with most teams the closer is near the top of the staff in high-leverage plate appearances.
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But in general closer is the only player that can potentially be in the position of ending the game or blowing the game 3-4 times in one playoff series. You have to admit it's a unique position, if nothing else.
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But in a really close series, or game, the closer can be the tipping point.
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Fielder can't help being huge IMO. It's genetic. His dad had the biggest ass in baseball history.
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Ha ha...Fred doesn't do relax. I've been reading his posts since 2007 so I know. The best is yet to come, believe me.
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Indications are now that the A-Rod fiasco could drag on well past December, totally f***ing up the Yankees payroll budgeting for 2014. They may just have to operate on the assumption they'll be paying him this year.
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I think my blood pressure actually rose reading that post by Fred.
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Predictions for Robinson Cano ... Team & Terms of Contract.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Other Baseball
Even though I agree with most of this, I wonder if the time will come when baseball owners say 'no more 200 million contracts'. There are only 4 of them to date, and they aren't pretty: A-Rod - certain disaster Pujols - almost certain disaster Fielder - almost certain disaster Votto - potential disaster -
Ellsbury is looking for Crawford's. Choo is looking for Werth's. Nice of these guys to use such bad contracts as reference points.
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Predictions for Robinson Cano ... Team & Terms of Contract.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Other Baseball
Yankees 8/210 -
Crazy thought of the day: if Dempster had been on the 2012 team, his 4.57 ERA would have been second on the team just barely behind Buchholz's 4.56.
