Worst Deal Yet
Dave · December 7, 2004 at 9:18 pm · Filed Under Mariners
This is the deal I was referring to yesterday, and now that the Washington Post is reporting it, I’ll stick it on the blog. The Yankees are going to sign Jaret Wright to a 3 year contract that, with incentives, will be worth around $23 million. The guaranteed money is quite a bit lower, but this is still an insane amount of money to give a guy with his track record.
It appears that the winners of this offseason will be those who avoid the middle class entirely. It’s a great time to be a midly effective right-handed pitcher.
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18 Responses to “Worst Deal Yet”
Is this the first time I’ve actually been excited to see the Yankees sign a free agent?
I’m getting a bit concerned though-are all these crazy signings a start of a trend instead of an outlier?
Better them then us … now I just hope we don’t go nuts over Pavano. Please focus on position players!
Any word on Soriano and Guardado this offseason?
PHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!
With this market, let’s avoid pitching all together. Okay, Bill?!? Yikes.
Say it with me: Beltre or BUST, baby!
All the more proof that there is an actual market for the services of Ryan Franklin.
Yay for the Yankees!
-That’s about the last time I’ll be caught saying that.
This is an off-season of renewed hope. The Mariners wont have any crappy over-hyped players left to sign!
WOOO HOOOOOOO!
Man, seriously, that’s the “best” move the yankees have made in a while 🙂
You can never run out of crappy over-hyped players to sign. There’s never a shortage. If BB want’s one, he’ll find one.
The Yanks added Womack tonight as well 2 years/$4 million. What the hell are they thinking?
Hmm, I guess that means Pavano is going to either get a contract for eleventy billion dollars, or Texa$.
Wow! Steinbrenner must really be putting pressure on the front office if they are throwing around cash like that.
Sheesh… what the heck are Radke, Pavano and Clement going to get if Wright’s getting $6+ million per.
And Womack too???
The Yankees themesong this offseason. “My Own Worst Enemy”, Lit.
And they signed Tony Womack. Tony Womack. Is no one in Steinbrenner’s inner circle familiar with the concept of career years or fluke years?
I’m a Yankee fan; needless to say, I won’t be sleeping tonight.
Tony-freaking-Womack?!
So with these deals as precedent, if you’re Scott Boras what kind of Cheshire cat grin do you have right now? Oh wait, maybe all the GMs are colluding to burn through all their excess cash so they can all claim they’ve got nothing extra for Boras’ big names…
The thing I hate about the Yanks, is they make these strange moves, then go out and get a Beltran to basically cover a lot of mistakes.
Wouldn’t that be the greatest if Scott Boras defeated himself and his clients by being out-dumbed by the rest of baseball? If the big-market teams all blew their wads on suckariffic players and said to him: “Sorry, pal … the food court is now closed” … ?
The only problem is … do any of us have confidence that Bill Bavasi is smart enough not to get sucked into this whirling vortex of madness himself and do something truly horrific like offer Pavano the sun and the moon and the stars and Shannon Dreher?
Maybe the M’s might for a second consider Clement now? Probably not, but at least there may be a chance now. Please god, not Jon Lieber!
It appears that the winners of this offseason will be those who avoid the middle class entirely
Yup. The Cubs got a great deal on Nomar.