Aramis Ramirez Leaning Toward Exercising Option

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah except they keep dropping pretty big coin on bums like braden looper, jeff suppan and randy wolf.

[illiniguy]

yeah except they keep dropping pretty big coin on bums like braden looper, jeff suppan and randy wolf.

Well luckily the Cubs don't have any of those type of bad contracts. And we never throw money at John Grabow, Jason Marquis, or Bob Howry types.

[TruffleShuffle]

bob howry was basically worth what the cubs paid him - he was better than his contract in 2006-07 and then worse in 2008. i believe you should say scott eyre. for that matter, jason marquis was certainly worth more than the $21M contract the cubs gave him. if you're going to bag on bad contracts, pick the right guys to bag on.

 

but regardless of that, the cubs (a) can afford bad contracts more than the brewers, and (b) almost spent less per year on the guys you mentioned than the brewers spent on one of those terrible starting pitchers. the brewers aren't going to get better until they stop blowing $10m a year on pitchers who are, at best, back of the rotation filler.

[Guest]

bob howry was basically worth what the cubs paid him - he was better than his contract in 2006-07 and then worse in 2008. i believe you should say scott eyre. for that matter, jason marquis was certainly worth more than the $21M contract the cubs gave him. if you're going to bag on bad contracts, pick the right guys to bag on.

 

but regardless of that, the cubs (a) can afford bad contracts more than the brewers, and (b) almost spent less per year on the guys you mentioned than the brewers spent on one of those terrible starting pitchers. the brewers aren't going to get better until they stop blowing $10m a year on pitchers who are, at best, back of the rotation filler.

Unless they somehow hire Dave Duncan away from StL, they should stop signing the Cards castoffs to big money.

[Backtobanks]

Aramis Ramirez “Staying” In Chicago

By Ben Nicholson-Smith [september 14 at 8:24am CST]

Aramis Ramirez will be back in Chicago next year. The third baseman had suggested he might not return, but he told Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday that he’s not considering opting out of his contract.

 

''I'm staying here,'' he said. ''Put it that way.''

 

Ramirez has a 2011 player option for $14.6MM and the Cubs will have to pay him $2MM more even if they buy him out in 2012. That's a lot of money, likely more than Ramirez would be able to find as a free agent, but the Cubs are getting a player who has recovered from a slow start to hit well in the second half. Ramirez had a .550 OPS heading into July, but has since posted a .940 mark and now has 22 home runs in total.

[Clem Fandango]

Aramis Ramirez isn't opting out of his contract? Stop the presses

[SouthSideRyan]

Alcides Escobar blows

[TruffleShuffle]

too bad dave kaplan isn't here, he'd say that this is the only exercising aramis will do all year.

[SouthSideRyan]

 

*snip*

 

Ramirez has a 2011 player option for $14.6MM and the Cubs will have to pay him $2MM more even if they buy him out in 2012. That's a lot of money, likely more than Ramirez would be able to find as a free agent,

 

That's missing the point entirely. It's not that Aramis could receive more money on an annual basis. It's that he could receive one last long-term contract in case next year is all 1st 2 months, and no strong finish.

[Post Count Padder]

too bad dave kaplan isn't here, he'd say that this is the only exercising aramis will do all year.

#-o

[Backtobanks]

 

*snip*

 

Ramirez has a 2011 player option for $14.6MM and the Cubs will have to pay him $2MM more even if they buy him out in 2012. That's a lot of money, likely more than Ramirez would be able to find as a free agent,

 

That's missing the point entirely. It's not that Aramis could receive more money on an annual basis. It's that he could receive one last long-term contract in case next year is all 1st 2 months, and no strong finish.

 

That was from MLBTR, not something I wrote. I would assume he is thinking he will remain healthy enough to get in 500+ ABs and will earn a "long-term" (3 year?) contract. Coming off of this year (even though he has rebounded the 2nd half), I'm not sure anybody would be offering him $40+ million over 3-4 years.

[SouthSideRyan]

Didn't mean to attribute it to you, it's why I added the *snip*

[jersey cubs fan]

too bad dave kaplan isn't here, he'd say that this is the only exercising aramis will do all year.

 

He was over the top negative again last night with the "dog" comments. Lots of people are pissed at Aramis for talking about maybe not exercising his option but then saying that he probably will. I don't get why that causes consternation.

[NCCubFan]

Bob Brenly was on him again tonight for taking too long to throw the ball to DeWitt when he dropped it for an error.