Samardzija

[Guest]

Well...there you go.

[CubColtPacer]

The 80% rule applies to pre-arbitration? I'm not sure about that. Probably a moot point since I doubt they would want to piss Samardzija off by slashing his salary so his arbitration years scale better for the team, though.

 

Back to the options, players who have team options for their 6th year can still be offered arbitration even if they are declined, so I don't see why this wouldn't be the same case(again, unless the contract dictates it).

 

I didn't know that was possible either (declining a club option and then offering arbitration). If that's happened then that should be true for pre-arbitration as well.

[NCCubFan]

Does Reagins get credit if he keeps doing well?

None whatsoever.

[Hawk4Hall]

Didn't he get a 10 million dollar signing bonus when he was drafted?

[javy knows my name]

Didn't he get a 10 million dollar signing bonus when he was drafted?

 

Nope.

[Tracer Bullet]

can someone explain his signing bonus? it wasn't $10m, but Cot's lists it as $1m "may increase to $7.25M if Samardzija chooses to play baseball over football." and the total value of Shark's contract was $10m ($16.5m if options are exercised).

 

Does the total value include a $1m bonus or the $7.25m bonus? He didn't go back to football, so did he just get almost 75% of his contract value as a signing bonus and has made less than $1m a year for the last 4 years? Or am I misunderstanding this entirely?

[jersey cubs fan]

can someone explain his signing bonus? it wasn't $10m, but Cot's lists it as $1m "may increase to $7.25M if Samardzija chooses to play baseball over football." and the total value of Shark's contract was $10m ($16.5m if options are exercised).

 

Does the total value include a $1m bonus or the $7.25m bonus? He didn't go back to football, so did he just get almost 75% of his contract value as a signing bonus and has made less than $1m a year for the last 4 years? Or am I misunderstanding this entirely?

 

I'm fairly certain there were two different contracts. He got $1m to sign for one year while still playing football. Then after that season, they ripped up the original deal and signed a 5/10 with a $2m bonus and everything else spread over the 5 years, plus two team option years.

[bukie]

He's now tied for the team lead in wins. I think that's more a bad sign for the team than a good one for him, though.

[Banghart]

Dare I say Farnsworth Jr.?

I can't hear the name Farnsworth and not think of the HR that he gave up to Dunn several years ago at Wrigley. The ball flew directly over my head (I was standing against the fence in right) landed on the sidewalk across Sheffield and hit a building on one bounce. Huge homer and has to come close to the rooftop shot from cromagnon man a few years prior.

 

I think back more to him tackling some guy who charged the mound. forget who. I think it was a Red.

It was Paul Wilson, who was pitching for the Reds at the time. Sad that is one of the better memories we have Farnsworth.

[SouthSideRyan]

He's now tied for the team lead in wins. I think that's more a bad sign for the team than a good one for him, though.

 

He has as many wins as the Cubs do in games James Russell appears in.

[sneakypower]

Yeah, he's had a few nice outings. Still safe to assume a bumpy road ahead for the guy though.

 

You know feline AIDS is the number one killer of domestic cats.

hahaha

[Splendid Splinter]

It was Paul Wilson, who was pitching for the Reds at the time. Sad that is one of the better memories we have Farnsworth.

 

 

- go about 20 sec in the video to see it all...

 

Then there was this gem...

 

http://media.lawrence.com/img/photos/2005/07/18/ROYALS_4K_color_sports_t440.jpg?9e2a24ba44807f8f9b96aad7c4082bf6ded075dc

[Wilson A2000]

I haven't been paying much attention to him, but it seemed that his first year up he was working in his splitter pretty well but went away from it the next few years. Has he gone back to it?

[Brett]

I haven't been paying much attention to him, but it seemed that his first year up he was working in his splitter pretty well but went away from it the next few years. Has he gone back to it?

 

It looks like it. One thing is sure, his fastball has a couple ticks more MPH on it this year, and the good tailing action he lost two years ago appears to be back. Control/command has been the only real issue this year. I try not to be encouraged by all things Samardzija... but... I am.

[TruffleShuffle]

I haven't been paying much attention to him, but it seemed that his first year up he was working in his splitter pretty well but went away from it the next few years. Has he gone back to it?

 

It looks like it. One thing is sure, his fastball has a couple ticks more MPH on it this year, and the good tailing action he lost two years ago appears to be back. Control/command has been the only real issue this year. I try not to be encouraged by all things Samardzija... but... I am.

 

that has always been the issue. the ball ends up a foot from where he's aiming, so it's often outside the strike zone where it's taken for a ball, or right down the middle where it gets hammered.