Cliff Lee Sweepstakes Over; Agrees to Sign With Phillies
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Noah Jarosh
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Yankees offer was 7/150
Phillies sign him for 5/100
Halladay – Lee – Oswalt – Hamels – HonestlyWhoGivesAFuck is just…ridiculous
Yankees was
6 years with a player option for 7th, total possible value 154. So 6 years, 148 + option & buyout, actually
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Please Please Please
let the Phillies trade for Grienke and go for 120 wins next year. PLEASE!?!? I NEED THIS!
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Although, this is pretty shitty for the Brewers, if they were serious about trading for a SP.
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This just means Halladay is expendable, right?
I’d offer Gomez/Salome.
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Salome isn't under contract with the Brewers anymore.
by Noah Jarosh on Dec 13, 2010 11:26 PM CST up reply actions
That's what makes this so difficult
I was disappointed with the lack of hookers but the pancakes were delightful
Brewer retired from baseball
He’s playing college football now. I think. I might just be making stuff up right now.
My goodness.
by BrewHaHeather on Dec 14, 2010 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
Still...
he’s very good at baseball for someone who doesn’t play baseball. In fact, players no 1986-2000 should be feeling pretty embarassed at being ranked below him: http://milbprospects.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-2000-prospects-for-2011-season.html
"I hope your name is Rick"
Damn it, Cliff
I was really excited to like you after you turned down more money not to play for the Yankees. Why’d you have to choose the only team that rivals the Yankees in obnoxiousness?
Oh well, Brewers are still winning the NL next year.
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Wow
That is ridiculous.
Should have offered him my world-ending-in-2012 massive back loaded contract.
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by Jeo on Dec 13, 2010 11:16 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
They don't care.
Werth alone makes up for the little money that Lee left behind.
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by Mykenk on Dec 13, 2010 11:25 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Pujols is reportedly furious, calling Lee "disrespectful"
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by SRB on Dec 13, 2010 11:46 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Flagged for slander. And/or Libel.
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by Mykenk on Dec 13, 2010 11:50 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Last time the Phillies got an ace starter, they traded one of their other top starters.
The Brewers should go ahead and trade for Hamels, now.
So the Phillies can resign him after 2011?
Note, I have no idea Hamels contract structure, only that this was a pretty genius move to get Lee and whatever crap seattle gave up for him…
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No wonder Jack Z looked like a genius in that trade.
The Phillies were planning on signing him again all along. Extra prospects were just gravy.
by Noah Jarosh on Dec 13, 2010 11:29 PM CST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure they were...
even more convinced with the discount they gave him, and the fact that they seemingly entered the hunt, then had him 2 hours later. Kind of a “hey, we let other teams have their fun, guess we should get around to that Lee thing now”
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If that was their plan they still could have gotten much more than they did though.
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They didn't care enough to try. More like, "Eh, let's just take whatever comes up first."
Kind of like what Melvin did with the Hardy trade.
by Noah Jarosh on Dec 13, 2010 11:32 PM CST up reply actions
Calling it: Marcum will have a lower ERA than Lee next year.
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by SRB on Dec 13, 2010 11:30 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Wait, isn't that what we offered Sabathia?
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by tcyoung on Dec 13, 2010 11:34 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Not really
it’s what we offered him, but at the same time said “hey, we’re pretty much screwed over if you take this, so, please don’t”… not much of an offer.
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They stole our idea!
And it worked!
by Noah Jarosh on Dec 13, 2010 11:35 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Only they didn't get as good of a pitcher...
and 2 years of inflation (not real inflation, baseball inflation) ignored…
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For whatever reason
this is really tempering my excitement about Wil Nieves.
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by Mykenk on Dec 13, 2010 11:50 PM CST reply actions 7 recs
So Philadephia has the second largest payroll now, right?
That’s interesting. Can they really keep this up? 2009 was their first year over $100MM and now they’re up to something like $170MM.
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Can we get the #phillies to sign Chris Young? H-H-O-L-Y? No? They wouldn’t arrange their rotation to spell stuff?
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Don't give Melvin any ideas, he'll sign Kei Igawa
GM WIN!
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by SRB on Dec 14, 2010 12:01 AM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Nah
he’d dump gallardo resign davis, and be DM WIN
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by Mykenk on Dec 14, 2010 12:02 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
No, no.
Melvin is going to be the one to sign young and he’s going to dump Marcum for Pat Neshak, who moved to the rotation. All of this is to help woo the Brewers new 2011 center fielder: Gwynn.
by Noah Jarosh on Dec 14, 2010 12:05 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Most important implication
does this get the Yankees in on the Pavano swee… oh. right. probably not.
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by Mykenk on Dec 14, 2010 12:05 AM CST reply actions 5 recs
Career lines
Prince vs. Halladay: .500/.500/1.333/1.833
Prince vs. Lee: .667/.667/1.667/2.333
Braun vs. Oswalt: .529/.579/1.294/1.873
I don’t know the meaning of the words small sample size!!!!!!
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An ace took less money?
whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhatttttttttttttttttttttttttttt?
I can’t say I saw that coming…
Different numbers $120 over 5 years - Jayson Stark
He’s getting $24 million per year from the Phillies. Above, Mykenk notes that the Yankees offered $148 / 6 (+ $6 million player option) which works out to $24.7 million per year. If he’s planning to retire after 5 years the offers were pretty much the same.
Stark also notes that the Phillies are going to be trading Joe Blanton as salary relief. According to Cot’s he’s under contract through 2012 at $10.5 million per. He will be 30 years old and last 3 FIP (4.34, 4.45, 4.52). They may be in a position where they have to move Blanton, but I think there will be plenty of demand to get a return for him.
Cobbling together numbers from different sources, the Phillies will have a payroll at $160 million if they move Blanton? That’s insane. Then again, they’ve put together a team that should beat the pants off everyone barring catastrophic-levels of injuries.
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but Regis Philban reported
it was 5 for 100!!!!!
by PagsBrewCrew on Dec 14, 2010 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
The Phillies are the new Red Sox
Who themselves, of course, are the new Yankees.
Individually, Halladay/Lee/Oswalt/Hamels seem like cool guys. Together, playing for the team with one of the douchiest fanbases in baseball, they are officially evil.
The Yankees lost this bidding war in October
There’s not enough money to make up for having a stadium full of fans spitting on your wife.
by nullacct on Dec 14, 2010 7:39 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
No.
If the Yankees trade for him in July and don’t get undercut by the Rangers, Cliffly is a Yankee, Yankees win the World Series, and he has 3-4 months in NY to decide that he probably likes being on that good of a team. Rangers never enter the bidding, because why would they?
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I was disappointed with the lack of hookers but the pancakes were delightful
by Michael M on Dec 14, 2010 11:21 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Didn't see this coming
Suck it Yankees!
My goodness.
by BrewHaHeather on Dec 14, 2010 11:15 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
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