That was quick.

will be seeing a lot more time at 1B.

a bad time to stop sniffing glue!

Alternatively, “The club did not start him on Opening Day.”

This sucks!

If you believe Hart really found something this year and you’re going to get 30 HR out of him every year, then it’s a good contract (TH estimates around $25 million / 3 years). If we’re being pessimistic, we’ll point out that our dipsh*t GM just bought high on his own player. Again. We’ll point out that he gave exactly the same kind of contract to Bill Hall. Yeah, I said it. We’d point out that he couldn’t find a trade partner for Hart, because he was looking for a package of players valued at over $25 million performance over the next 3 years.

If the Brewers don’t get a substantial haul for Fielder, it will be the final straw and I will stop following this team closely until Doug Melvin is terminated. There is no hope at all that they will ever compete again with him at the helm. Mark A’s willingness to sign off on this contract is a strong indicator that he will retain Melvin for the foreseeable future.

The silver lining to all of this is that it’s an indication that they’ve given up on Gomez. The natural move would’ve otherwise been to move Cain or Gomez to right field. This could be Gomez’ last year as a starting outfielder at the major league level.

I don’t think so. As long as he continues to lay off that low-outside pitch i’ll take him. Plus this just extends his tradability time. It’s pretty much a win-win for everyone.
If Corey thinks this is the level he SHOULD be playing at (or at least close) the brewers will have an all-star outfielder for 3 more years and Corey will cash in even bigger on the FA market in 3 years.

Now, if he regresses to last year… then its gonna suck. But don’t forget he started to get going pretty good before his appendix exploded.

Someone who is smarter than me needs to do one of those “Player A-Player B” comparisons to someone similar. But just writing that opens the door to some ridiculous comparison…

Yeah, as long as this isn’t too much money and as long as it doesn’t preclude a Weeks deal, I’m fine with it. If the contract is an untradeable one like Hall’s or Soup’s, then there’s a problem.

Going to have to get a lot for Prince, though.

guess we do not need any pitching

We now have a new player to blame for everything. He’s our new Jason Kendall, Bill Hall, Jeff Suppan, Old Man Smithers…

I heard its a 3 yr/ 26.5 extension.

Which upsets me. But I also don’t understand any of the timing. If it’s better to trade players in the offseason, as DM insists, isn’t it better to sign them to extensions then, too? Especially if they played significantly better in the first half than expected and just injured their thumb? Corey seemed keen to extend, so are you telling me this offer wouldn’t have been accepted in a couple months?

Greinke $$$$$$

I’m curious why most people would be ok with a Rickie Weeks contract extension (I include myself in this category), but not Corey Hart. Both are having career years, both have a tendancy to be very frustrating players to watch, both are questionable defensively and rather streaky players. Weeks playes a more valuable position, unlike Hart. Hart has a better record of success, unlike Weeks.

FWIW, I’m skeptical of this deal too, I just have a tendancy to play devil’s advocate.

This sounds like a desperate attempt for Melvin to keep his job… Hopefully it works out for the Brewers though.

$26.5m for 3 years isn’t too much

I know everyone wants to compare him to Bill Hall but let’s be straight here there ain’t gonna be another player who regressed the way Hall did. He’s definitely an outlier on the regression scale. Hart should be fine.

All the “durrr guess we don’t need pitching” comments make no sense to me. Doesn’t this basically tell everyone they aren’t planning to sign Fielder? In that case I can see why they’d want to keep their new star hitter. I’d look for Weeks to sign quick too. Remember that Suppan, Hoffman, Hall, and probably Fielder are all gonna be off the books in ’11 so they can throw some money around

tl;dr…you guys are too negative

He’s going to regress. We all know it. It’s just not possible (or at least highly unlikely) that these are sustainable production levels.

What I’m frustrated by is the fact that, once again, Melvin has cut a financial deal when the player’s value is at their absolute highest. It doesn’t seem like he’s managed to avoid that scenario all that much lately (with the exception of the Yoga signing).

I don’t think it means that Weeks is gone (and I’d rather have him around than Hart, personally). It almost certainly means that Fielder is gone (but we already knew that).

One interesting (though unlikely) possibility is that Hart finishes the season strong, is now under control for 3 more years at semi-reasonable prices (given his production this year) and his trade value might actually be a little higher this offseason.

Right? Right?!?!?! Or is the money so high it’ll counteract the years of control?

I think something important that no one is talking about is that Hart is wearing contacts this year. The guy was hitting a baseball, the hardest thing to do in sports, without seeing the spin on the ball. This year, he puts in contacts, doesn’t look as terrible on the low and outside breaking pitches, and is having a career year. I don’t think this is a coincidence. He may have finally taken the next step this year.

Pick up the pieces!

Corey Hart,

Do not become Bill Hall.

Signed,
Guy you makes horrible motivationals.

I agree with you Bush League, I hope for another Bill Hall situation. I really hope that this is lone great year if so another time the Crew jumps the gun on a player playing well @ the right time.