Light the Hot Stove fires

It's the Mets. Just lie back and enjoy the inevitable collapse.

 

Mark DeRosa couldn't hold Marty Barrett's jock.

It is interesting to note that DeRosa will probably make more next season than he's made in the rest of the seasons of his career combined.

Not for nothing but they probably could have had Mark Loretta at the same price.

 

Yeah, but did Loretta go to an Ivy League school?

 

Three guaranteed years for De Rosa? Sounds like a Cubs move to me.

 

Your point is taken with Boras, but he doesn't ALWAYS get the moon. Andruw Jones did his own negotiations for his current contract and left Boras out of it. Boras swears that won't happen again. 'Course, it was a 5-year, $75m deal. I'm sure Boras thought he could get more.

 

As an aside to those who were astounded at the $51.1M for Matsuzaka ... to the best of my knowledge, that money goes to the Seibu Lions, not to Matsuzaka. And it doesn't sign him. The Red Sox still have to negotiate that part of the deal and, if they can't, he goes back to pitch for Seibu. That makes the $51.1M figure even more incredible, to consider that it was only for the rights to negotiate. What's wrong with the world?

 

It's Bush's fault.

 

Mike & Mike had some great statistical comparisons for this. They rattled off teams whose entire opening-day 2006 payroll was less than $51 million (Pirates and Royals among them). That is also more than the opening day payrolls of the Marlins and Devil Rays COMBINED.

I wish I could remember the pitching staff they put together with $51 in annual salary. I do remember that it started with Johan Santana and Francisco Rodriguez was the closer.

 

Casty - if the Red Sox fail to sign Matsuzaka before Dec 15th - then they don't have to pay the $51 million and Matsuzaka goes off the MLB market for another year

 

That 51 million also doesn't count toward luxury sharing, this is a business investment as well as hoping to improve their team. And the Sox also hold his rights for 6 years, so Boras can hope for a 3 year contact, but he'll only be arbitration eligible at that point.

Chris is right, Matsuzaka won't see a penny of the 51million, that all goes to his team.

Its a little over 8million a year paid to the Lions for the life of his contract, thats chump change for the Sox. The team makes over 2 million a year on tours of Fenway! Thats not including all the weddings, corporate events, etc. held at the park throughout the year, and now factor in having a presence in Japan, and its a smart investment.

They do have 1 big problem on their hands.......the pressbox. Will they expand? Limit the amount of press passes? There is going to be 300 people in the press box when the Yankees or Mariners come to town now.

 

Isn't he off the MLB market for the next two years, if the Red Sox don't sign him?

 

The Red Sox are going to be on the hook for $20 million per season for a pitcher who has never thrown an inning in the big leagues. Sure, they have the money. That doesn't mean spending it in this manner is smart. It's insane. But it makes me happy because I like to see big-money teams act like idiots.