|
November 23, 2009
Who is Shyster?Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Rob Neyer, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT.
 Plus our Statistical Definitions Monthly Archives
November, 2009
October, 2009 September, 2009 August, 2009 July, 2009 June, 2009 May, 2009 April, 2009 March, 2009 February, 2009 January, 2009 December, 2008 November, 2008
Or you can search by:
Gear up for baseball season with Chicago White Sox tickets and New York Yankees tickets. LA Angels tickets, Houston Astros tickets, and Atlanta Braves tickets are hot sellers! You can get Boston Red Sox tickets, San Diego Padres tickets or Chicago Cubs tickets for your favorite baseball fan. Coast to Coast Tickets has the best MLB tickets like Minnesota Twins tickets, LA Dodgers tickets, Milwaukee Brewers tickets, New York Met tickets and St. Louis Cardinals tickets. Find premium Chicago Cubs tickets and other Chicago tickets at JustGreatTickets.com. Chicago Cubs Tickets Chicago Tickets  All content on this site (including text, graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Most Recent Comments
Mauer Power (13)
My Morning in Exile (11) My Morning in Exile (21) Your Thursday afternoon tizzy (40) Great Moments in Championship Celebrations (4) Shyster's Daily Circuit
Rob Neyer
AaronGleeman.com Joe Posnanski Blog Baseball Analysts Baseball Musings Cot's Baseball Contracts It IS About the Money Keith Law Cardboard Gods Baseball Think Factory MLB Trade Rumors Retrosheet Vegas Watch Way Back and Gone Bats -- NYT Baseball Blog The Biz of Baseball The Daily Fungo U.S.S. Mariner Braves Journal Scott Simkus The Common Man Jorge Says No! Baseball Over Here Fack Youk Wezen-Ball Chop-n-Change |
Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Wednesday, December 10, 2008CC Says Y-E-S to NYJeez, you take two hours to write up a legal brief, and the whole world goes and gets itself in a hurry:CC Sabathia is not going to play on the West Coast. He is not going to play in the National League. CC Sabathia is going to be a Yankee, The Post has learned exclusively. Robo is saying that it's seven years and upwards of $160M. That'll buy a lot of hours on a fractionally-owned executive jet for Mrs. Sabathia to go back and forth from her California home. I guess I'm sort of deflated. Not because the Yankees got him per se -- it's been years since the prospect of the Yankees buying players made me despair about the competitive balance of baseball -- but because no one else did. Sabathia the Brewer, Sabathia the Giant, Sabathia the Angel, or Sabathia the Dodger would have at least been interesting. With Sabathia the Yankee, the stories for 2009 can practically be pre-written. If CC starts slow like he did last year, there will be exaggerated shock and worry. If he carries the team down the stretch like he did the Brewers last season, there will be exaggerated awe and hero-making. If he pitches well yet the Yankees still falter because of the offense -- which I feel is the most likely scenario -- people will wonder why the Yankees were so hot for CC in the first place instead of going after Texeira or something. In other words, despite the tens of thousands of words people will write about this signing in the coming days, it stands to be the most boring transaction of the year. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 10:51am Comments
Jeff J. Snider said...
“Had players like Rivera, Jeter, or Posada (and don’t forget Clemens either), been free agents from other teams, the Yankees would have likely paid them just as much to get them in pinstripes.” It’s tough to tell what the Yankees “likely” would have done; it seems our best evidence would be what they actually DID do, which was NOT sign very many big name free agents away from other teams over the past several years. Posted 12/10 at 07:54 PM
Aaron said...
I don’t see the opt-out as being so bad. If Sabathia wants to leave after 3 years, well, the last years of the contract would be the ones the saber-set is most afraid of. If he stays, then you get the contract like you wanted. Think the Dodgers didn’t dodge a bullet on JD Drew? Posted 12/10 at 11:04 PM
Page 2 of 2 < 1 2
Tell the Shyster what you think:Next Post: Shoulda stuck with "California" in the first place>> <<Previous Post: Today at THT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is not really relevant, but I love that the Post article says that there are still “hurdles to finalize.” I didn’t know that you could finalize a hurdle.