One thing I shake my head about with Mauer's contract is that the Twins' new ballpark was bad for his home run production. When you sign a $184 million contract with a player maybe you should consider doing something about this?
Still, my favorite bad contract these days is BJ Upton's 75 million. Poor ol' BJ is hitting 177/266/300. And for bonus points he's dragging his brother Justin down with him.
I said it at the time, worst contract in history, even worse than A-Rod's last one. Especially since they had A-Rod's contract sitting right in front of them.
Then they follow it up by handing $125 million to Hamilton.
We do have a lot of internal possibilities though...Britton has looked pretty good...Workman, Contreras...who really knows if these guys can't do just as well as an expensive rental?
We've run into some very good starters. The way the Rays shut us down probably carried over into last night's game. We've still got a very good offence. I think Drew's days in the everyday lineup are just about over.
Pitching is the real need.