Baseball thread No. 7: Somebody slip the pinstripers a Mickey

BA says he signs for 15.67 mil

 

#2 pick Dustin Ackley signs for almost $10 mil, per MLB Network.

 

MLB Network is really letting folks down right now. It's 10 minutes after midnight. I don't give a shit about the Oakland-NY game.

 

Well, there you go. They just rolled out Heyman.

 

Word is the Indians have signed their #1 pick, Alex White.

 

Hitting refresh on a Web site 15 times is not sane.

This is bullshit.

 

I really thought Strasburg wasn't going to sign. Good for the Nats.

Also, the Rockies signed Tyler Matzek -- who was looking for prep record money, at least pitching-wise --for $3.9 million.

 

Here's a decent place for updates. It's BA's Twitter page:

http://twitter.com/BaseballAmerica

 

Yea, almost as soon as I posted.

Such a relief the Lerners got this done. I hope the kid is the real deal.

 

Nats kicked boras' ass. Good for them.

$50 mil my ass. I'll bet anyone right here right now that he doesn't make anywhere close to $25 mil as a ballplayer, never mind the $50 mil boras was gonna get him before he ever threw a pitch.

 

Well, it was like that with Boras and Dice-K, too. He talked about getting $100 million-plus for Dice-K when the Red Sox held all the leverage. Same here. You know Boras and Strasburg probably didn't want to delay the service time clock by a year because they could only surpass the previous record contract by double. Boras probably just talked just to hear himself talk.