MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

And it appears to be only a five-year deal (which is still long for a thirty-two-year-old pitcher, but hey).

[Kid]

Lee's offer from the Yankees was 7/150. Apparently he took something in the neighborhood of 5/100 from the Phillies.

[vegascub]

Unfuckingreal.

[vegascub]

The one good thing is that it's looking like the Yankees aren't going to get shit this offseason. At least not by their standards. No Crawford. No Lee. I heard Greinke doesn't want to go there, although I wonder what they might try to do now to maybe land him.

[Clapp]

That rotation just isn't even fair. That could be one for the ages. Get Halladay, Lee, Hamels, and Oswalt all pitching like they can... you have maybe the greatest rotation of all-time.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

I know Lee's been unreal the last couple of years, but MLB history isn't chockablock with starting pitchers who flip a switch at age 29 and maintain high levels of performance for a decade. I have my reservations . . .

[kbwsb]

Weird. And things are not looking good for the Cubs in all this:

1. If we ever DO want to reach our dream of going to the World Series, we now have to go into a short playoff series with them throwing FOUR superstar pitchers at us.
2. The Mets are really starting to worry me...they've always been a sleeping giant: huge income streams, huge fan base, brand new billion-dollar cash cow stadium...but they were held in check because they had a Hendry-like GM
But now they've got freaking Kevin Towers and DePodesta at the helm. Goodbye Wild Card.

Not looking good.

[biggz]

<!--quoteo(post=123263:date=Dec 13 2010, 11:44 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Dec 13 2010, 11:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Weird. And things are not looking good for the Cubs in all this:

1. If we ever DO want to reach our dream of going to the World Series, we now have to go into a short playoff series with them throwing FOUR superstar pitchers at us.
2. The Mets are really starting to worry me...they've always been a sleeping giant: huge income streams, huge fan base, brand new billion-dollar cash cow stadium...but they were held in check because they had a Hendry-like GM
But now they've got freaking <b>Kevin Towers</b> and DePodesta at the helm. Goodbye Wild Card.

Not looking good.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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But the point remains.

[funkster]

Wow. That's an insane rotation.

[biggz]

Phuck the Fillies?

[Destined]

The Phillies turn into a super-club doesn't bother me. It can only help the viability of the National League as whole, despite creating an absolute monster in the playoffs.

[veryzer]

Wow, it's hard not to be jealous of a team that does whatever it can to win championships. It must be nice.

[rok]

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This.

And meanwhile we're looking over Webb's medical records and signing guys who hit .196. It's fun to be the Cubs.

[Butcher]

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This.

And meanwhile we're looking over Webb's medical records and signing guys who hit .196. It's fun to be the Cubs.
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It's a sad fucking state of affairs.

I kind of like the Phillies, though, and I think it's kind of cool that Lee blew off the Yankees and left money on the table to go to Philadelphia.

[Coldneck]

Perhaps if we had a taxpayer funded stadium, like the Phillies or WhiteSox, we'd be able to bump our payroll up near the $150-$170 MM mark like Philadelphia.

Excerpt from Joe Sheehan's Newsletter
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->We do know Amaro Jr. has money to spend. The Philies may pay the luxury tax this year, and if they don't, it won't be for lack of trying. The cycle here is one that a dozen teams could take to heart, however. The Phillies emerged from a downturn by drafting out of their minds, getting Howard, Utley, Rollins and Hamels that way. They picked the free-talent market clean for Victorino and Werth. They locked up their young players with the revenues generated by their taxpayer-funded ballpark, and when the team got better and filled the place deep into the fall, they took a lot of the new money and put it back into the team. That's the implied promise all these teams make, implicitly, when they demand -- in some cases nearly steal -- hundreds of millions of dollars in public money. "Spend this on us," they say, "and we will pay it back in the experience." The Phillies, to their credit, have tried to make that payback in a way that few of the other teams sucking on the state teat have ever considered.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->