Light the Hot Stove fires

I agree. Today's worst deal of the winter. Gary Matthews Jr. isn't even in the conversation anymore.

Fortunately, this shuts up the football-humping sycophants who cry about baseball's unbalanced economics. There's nothing to cry about when the coupon-clipping Royals can go 5/$55 million on Gil freakin Meche.

 

I'm trying to be optimistic here. You guys are harshing my mellow.

 

And how many players do the Yankees have who are making more money than that?

Or the Cubs, for that matter?

Of course, you have to trot out that same argument any time a small-market franchise does something stupid with its money.

 

Well. That wasn't very nice.

Actually, isn't the reverse true? Everytime some big market team does something stupid with its money we hear about how awful and unfair baseball is?

And maybe the Cubs and Yankees have more players making $11 mil per than the Royals. They also got BETTER players making $11 mil per.

Now run along, Browns-Steelers is on. Viva la parity!!!

 

Well, given that the Royals couldn't touch that $51.1 million right to negotiate with a player they were interested in, some things still aren't all rosey for small-money teams.

 

I think they could match that figure. They just don't want to.

Plus, if what the Boston papers are reporting is accurate, the Royals and everyone else might have a shot at Matsuzaka in two years anyway.

 

Isn't Boras angling to make him a free agent if these talks don't pan out? I thought I read somewhere he might try and exploit some loophole -- shocking, I know.

 

I'm rooting hard for that boy.

 

Why are middle-inning left-handers one-batter pitchers?

Because the odds are that the righties will hammer him.

 

Pierre is a far worse deal than Matthews.

You can make a case that Matthews found himself last year.

Pierre has fallen off the cliff.

 

Matthews is also 32 and one year removed from being released in spring training.

This is not meant to be a defense of the Pierre signing, BTW.

 

Because managers over-manage? I don't recall this strategy from, oh, 1876-1990 (thereabouts).