2011-2012 MLB Off-Season Thread

[Mainge]

Well yeah but the Rangers still had to pay it.

[Beef]

Yeah. It depends how you look at it. Darvish's deal is not 6/110 though. The Rangers commitment is.

[Namaste]

Yeah but that's what I meant

It's costing the Rangers $110+ million to have him pitch for 6 years

We're HUGH Yu fans but I wouldn't use cheap to describe this deal

[HUGG]

Fair enough, but the $50 mil is a one time investment and has nothing to do with their payroll budgets for years 2-6 of the deal.

That's where it becomes a very nice deal for the Rangers.
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Put it this way, I think the Rangers are gonna be HUGH fans of paying Darvish ~$35mil (assuming the yearly contract isn't just a flat 10 mil per) from 2014-16 while the Angels are paying CJ Wilson $54mil

[Bobbob1313]

Yeah, but everyone knows you're a total fan girl and sleep with a Yu Darvish body pillow every night.

[HUGG]

HUGH fan of that body pillow

[Bobbob1313]

POTM
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Yup...

[Miamarlin21]

How can it be a huge body pillow if he's Asian? They are usually short, no?

[Beef]

:-\

[Swifty]

Be interesting to see how the deal is structured, but if you front load the heck out of it (say pay $15/15/9.5/8.5/6.5/5.5) that's a steal because even worst case scenario you at least have a semi-movable asset by the time the experiment needs to "end" AND you can backload a Prince deal as well.

[dim]

How can it be a huge body pillow if he's Asian? They are usually short, no?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Since he's been the subject of trade rumors...

@Buster_ESPN: View of rival executives: Matt Garza's $10.225 million arbitration request greatly complicates any interest in him as a trade target.

Cubs offered him $7.9 million.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

@JonHeymanCBS: garza actually filed at $12.5M, w/ #cubs at $7.95M. misread chart. the $10.225M was midpoint (seemed like weird filing #)

Wow. Quite a difference between what Garza wants and what the Cubs want to pay him.

[dim]

Given Hamels just got 15 mil, I think Garza's gonna win.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Leo Nunez/Juan Carlos Oveido has a new buddy...

@JonHeymanCBS: fausto carmona's arrest for really being roberto hernandez heredia a blow to #indians. hope this guy heredia can pitch

Apparently, "Carmona" is really 31 as opposed to 28.