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Not versus market value, no. But they were bidding against themselves, so paying market value really wasn't necessary. It helps the Cards, but this is a victory for Scott Boras. I don't understand this line of reasoning. Do you think he suddenly would have signed for 5/75 or something?

Good, they overpayed. I hope this cripples them for the next decade. How is it overpaying?

It's official. 7 years 120 mil.

Good move by the Red Sox.

4/66 with a 5th year option Yikes.

He's perfectly mediocre. His dropoff in K/9 should be worrisome.

According to the going rate for free agent WAR, yes. so you're saying he was worth 3/32, but it doesn't justify 3/21? im confused I'm saying he ended up being well worth his contract. I'm not saying I would have signed him to it or that it was a good move at the time.

According to the going rate for free agent WAR, yes.

And he's three years older and the economic climate is significantly different than three years ago. And 39 is a hell of a lot ERA+ points. The Marquis contract with the Cubs was pee your pants hilarious. Over the length of the contract he was worth roughly 32 million. you say that like it's a proven fact those fangraph figures can be useful and fun to look at, but come on. maruis was a league average starter with the cubs. a league average starter is not worth 3/32 The contract was 3/21. I'm not justifying the contract, 3 years was pretty boneheaded, but Marquis held up his end of it. 7 million a year, like it or not, is pretty normal for a league average pitcher.

And he's three years older and the economic climate is significantly different than three years ago. And 39 is a hell of a lot ERA+ points. The Marquis contract with the Cubs was pee your pants hilarious. Over the length of the contract he was worth roughly 32 million.

They're not stupid. Holliday's signing won't affect signing Pujols one bit.

Right now it looks like 2 separate trades. Halladay to Philly for 3 PHI prospects Lee to Seattle for 2 SEA prospects Blue Jays are only getting prospects from Philly's system.

Phillippe Aumont is going from Seattle to Philadelphia as well.

Seattle won 85 games last year and have added Cliff Lee and Chone Figgins. With what the Angels have lost, I'd say the West is up for grabs.

The Phillies, Blue Jays and Mariners have agreed to a trade that will send Roy Halladay to Philadelphia and Cliff Lee to the Mariners, according to a SI.com report.

Fastball at 89-91 and a good curveball. I never cared much for him, but he may be one of those pitchers who just needs a shot.

Penny to STL is done, pending a physical.

You guys can have Padilla and we'll take Harden. Seems fair enough for me.

Sharper nearly killed Faulk with that hit. Lit his ass up.

Well, he was really, really terrible for the Chargers, so it was a good cut. Chambers has been awful for years. Seems to be doing pretty well for KC. With Bowe suspended KC has absolutely nobody else to throw to. He looks better than he is because so many balls are being thrown to him.

whatever Now he'll be playing "Ozzie Ball!"

He obviously knows enough to get hired by a MLB team and turn down offers from another.

But, both of those things could be directly impacted by performance enhancing drugs. I.E. he hit for power because of the steroids, thus he was pitched around a lot. It might not be the case, but you should be able to see why people would think that. What a ridiculous argument about the walks. He was such a dangerous hitter that pitchers felt they had to pitch around him (which is a point that I contest anyway- it is NOT always a decision by the pitcher that leads to a walk, there is such a skill as plate discipline and working a count), but that means that he isn't necessarily all that good because the only reason he got on all those times was because he was pitched around. backwards logic anyone? by that reasoning someone could hit a homerun literally every time they came to the plate, causing pitchers to eventually walk him literally every time he came to the plate. that person, by your reasoning, wouldn't be a great hitter at all because the only reason he was getting on all those times was because pitchers were afraid to pitch to him. So you don't think that there was a correlation between his power and the amount of times that he walked? No more than him being able to lay off balls and crush strikes. Pitchers didn't just fear him because he could hit the ball a mile, they feared him because he wasn't exploitable. There's a reason pitchers pitched to Dave Kingman and didn't pitch to McGwire.

You're comparing McGwire to Henderson? Really?

Then maybe LaRussa should hire Canesco, Bonds and Palmeiro as his base and bench coaches with Roger Clemens as his pitching coach and bring in Sammy as a motivational speaker. huh? It would take the pressure off Big (Phony) Mac to have other juicers around. I don't follow.