01-06-2010, 11:17 AM
You can't compare him to Bay. Bay is so epically bad in the field that it really cancels out a lot of his value as a hitter. He's worse than Soriano defensively.
This deal will be fine for them in the first few years and terrible for them after that. As it stands they'll probably pay him about $3.5MM per WAR. At the end of his contract, he'll be 37 and his production won't be there to justify the deal. That's when things will really get bad for them.
This deal will be fine for them in the first few years and terrible for them after that. As it stands they'll probably pay him about $3.5MM per WAR. At the end of his contract, he'll be 37 and his production won't be there to justify the deal. That's when things will really get bad for them.