Biggest contract you'd want to give Wood after '08 season?

[Guest]

175/9

 

Suck it, Soriano.

 

175 years for 9M total? That's fine with me. :wink:

[David]

lol at prior and wood "regime"

[badnews]

Oh man, you thought the regimes of Robert Mugabe, Islom Karimov, and Kim Jong Il were bad. But the brutal Prior/Wood junta has oppressed Cubs Nation long enough. We finally ran Mark "Generalissimo" Prior out of the nation and he is now hiding out in San Diego where we are trying to bring him to justice by blaring bad 80s rock music into his compound. This is bad enough, but we are still left to suffer under the tyranny of Kerry "El Capitan" Wood.

 

And what sucks is Todd Walker and Kent Mercker still have not been brought to justice and are thought to be hiding in Argentina.

[David]

Oh man, you thought the regimes of Robert Mugabe, Islom Karimov, and Kim Jong Il were bad. But the brutal Prior/Wood junta has oppressed Cubs Nation long enough. We finally ran Mark "Generalissimo" Prior out of the nation and he is now hiding out in San Diego where we are trying to bring him to justice by blaring bad 80s rock music into his compound. This is bad enough, but we are still left to suffer under the tyranny of Kerry "El Capitan" Wood.

 

And what sucks is Todd Walker and Kent Mercker still have not been brought to justice and are thought to be hiding in Argentina.

 

Awesome

[mcgoobs]

Some other closer salaries out there:

 

Wagner, agreed to in 2006: 4/$43M (club option for fifth year at $12.5M, $2M buyout)

Nathan, agreed to in 2008: 4/$47M (club option for fifth year at $8M, $1M buyout)

Hoffman, agreed to in in 2006: 2/$13.5M, option for a third year at $7.5M that vested at 45 games pitched in 2007

Jones, agreed to 2008: 1/$7M, previously he had a 2/$11M

Lidge, agreed to in July: 3/$37.5M (club option for fourth yearat $12.5M, $1.5M buyout)

Putz, agreed to in 2007: 3/$13.1M (club option for fourth year at $8.6M, $1M buyout)

Ryan, agreed to in 2005: 5/$47M

 

Looking at those, Wood shouldn't get the tenure or dollars as Wagner and Nathan given ther proven durability and better performance. Wood also shouldn't get anything near Ryan's contract because it's absurd. You'd like to be able to give him a 2 year contract with the annual dollars that Putz or Hoffman receives, which would mean Wood would be signed to a 2/$8.5M o 2/$13.5M. I'm not sure if Wood would be happy with that, and that another team would come in and offer Lidge money. If that's the case I would be inclined to move Marmol to the closer role, move Samadzja into Marmol's current role, and let Wood walk.