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Are you kidding me? This deal would have been great for the Marlins!
Close. It's what happens when a Marlins fan goes off his medication.
Assuming this is true, are they (Marlins) ####### insane?! 4 years at ~$10 million AAV is a crazy good deal. If Johnson were a FA he'd get way better than that, both in length and AAV. Words fail me.
edit: coke to tripon. I was quoting the article, not his quote of the article. great minds and all that...
This is exactly the kind of team friendly deals low budget teams like the Marlins should be making. They aren't even trying to be appearing to try. Why this team has any fans is beyond me (sorry T & B).
Awesome.
Still, should JJ sign a 3/25ish deal that sets him up for life AND allows him to hit the FA market at age 29?
As John said, you can't spell Brattain without "BRAT".
This is what happens when you find a Marlins fan in the Alps.
Ditto. In fact, I was at first convinced that it wasn't referring to anything, which made it even more enjoyable.
I can see the Marlins' point in not wanting to go beyond three years. Johnson did have a significant injury that cost him the better part of two years and he does still carry some risk. Perhaps they could have been flexible - say three plus an vesting option if Johnson throws 175 innings in each of the three years, or something like that, or a mutual option for the fourth year - but when you are a limited-resource team you don't necessarily want to take that risk.
-- MWE
They simply don't have the money to retain their own talent, even at team-friendly rates. Not with the pittance the team currently receives from the league, at least. If only they could get just a bit more money assured each season, the Marlins could put together a solid team of exciting young homegrown talent and really give those great fans in South Florida something to cheer for! It would be good for baseball. I don't see a downside.
Two years.
Who was I thinking of?
Did I miss something in this thread....
But isn't it conceivable that the Marlins could have this guy to this deal AND it make him even MORE appealing in a trade, being the fairly low nature of the price? Pitchers get hurt, yes, especially ones with a history of getting hurt. There's also a hell of alot of healthy guys who can't get anyone out.
And it's not clear he's going to be all that expensive in his arb years. Due to the injuries, he was paid only $1.4 M in his first arb year. Obviously he'll get a big raise this year but not necessarily enough to justify that 4/$38 pricetag.
If only the Yankees could somehow overcome the unfairness of having to give the Marlins money and succeed. Oh the humanity!
Well, they overcame that by getting NYC to pay for a stadium, thereby erasing their revenue sharing obligations for the next while.
Its a good thing the City of New York negotiated free luxury boxes for all of their citizens in exchange for paying for New Yankees Stadium.
He spent the first month in the bullpen, which helped keep his innings down. He also threw his last game on September 12, apparently due to a right forearm injury, so it appears to have been a matter of both caution and injury.
To recycle an old Saints joke, they actually gave all the citizens free box seats between the dugouts, they just all came dressed as empty seats.
Maybe there was a sale on "Invisible Pedestrian" Halloween costumes.
Couldn't you make a case that this contract makes Johnson more valuable? If he has another good year next year, then you have a young, good pitcher locked up for 3 more years at a reasonable rate. Every team in the league would be interested.
The stadium doesn't completely erase their revenue sharing obligation, does it? Anybody got a good source for how much of a reduction it nets them?
Of course Nanny wouldn't let you finish this bit of dialogue. They had a midnight showing of The Big Lebowski at my local theatre on the weekend, I'm regretting not going. Seeing the flailing marmot on the big screen would have been something.
The city didn't actually pay for the stadium, although they did pay for a bunch of infrastructure around it.
What they did is guarantee the bonds, so the Yankees could pay the muni-rate for borrowing, which is much lower. Of course, given the huge cash cow the Stadium, and the Yankees in general, are, there's zero chance the city ever pays a penny of the guarantee.
If the team wasn't paying the interest on the debt, i.e. if the city had just gifted them the stadium, there would be no reduction in revenue sharing.
Not that I support municipalities subsidizing stadiums, but just wanted to get the facts straight.
I saw The Big Lewbowski the first day it came out and I was a little drunk and a little stoned. I think I laughed hysterically for a half an hour at that scene.
I've just always assumed that this was your normal state of existence. It's the only way to explain some of your random diatribes about things like bathroom habits of co-workers.
Naw. I'm usually just naturally high on life. Just say no. Choose life. Etc etc.
Don't force your beliefs onto my body, Shootsworth.
I was underwhelmed (if that's a word).
Nods to Sloan fans.
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