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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, August 16, 2012Blue Jays give Jeff Mathis a two-year extensionMike Scioscia playing favorites again by giving Mathis this extension!
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Posted: August 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM | 32 comment(s)
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1. Gch exhales the vast drunken folly of Epicurus Posted: August 16, 2012 at 12:31 PM (#4209651)Mathis hasn't been dreadful this year, the money doesn't really matter at all, and it certainly won't sink the Jays to have him be their backup catcher. At the same time, it's a really bland move that has almost no upside and gives Mathis a guaranteed roster spot for two to three years, and I cannot imagine that the market for Mathis or a similar backup catcher would've been all that strong in the offseason.
I had assumed that the plan was to have JP as the backup and D'arnaud as the starter in the next year or so. I guess having Mathis allows them to deal Arrencibia, but I don't see why they'd want to do that.
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BS did get a 2 year deal as a FA, and then got reupped for another year.
Mathis got 2 years prior to turning FA. Don't know which scenario is worse. :)
Name someone with a higher World Series OPS.
The Royals have a number of candidates for this: Bruce Chen, Jeff Francoeur, Ross Gload, Scott Elarton, Willie Bloomquist...
John McDonald? Tsuyoshi Wada? Yoslan Herrera? Aaron Miles?
This seems like Karma for the Napoli/Wells assault/trade.
I can never tell which of your conspiracy theories to take seriously. This one seems to have legs, though.
He played poorly under that contract, but he was one year removed from a 50 HR season, and will be a borderline HOFer. That's different from everyone else listed here, most of whom never even had a prime.
... Oh, he was a Cuban defector. That doesn't really count. And he actually got a three-year contract.
Back in the bad old days, the Pirates signed Mike Benjamin to a two-year deal not once but twice.
Over the first two years, he gave them 601 AB with a 69 OPS+, and they were so pleased with that, they gave him a $225k raise to re-up for two more years.
Yea, if he counts, Noel Arguelles is far worse. It doesn't look like he'll ever even reach the big leagues, and he's on a five year contract. I'm sure there are worse Cuban FA contracts than that.
I was going to say Gary Matthews, but he had an excellent year and a couple of average ones in his career. Meares topped out at average if you squint. Darren Dreifort is a contender, but he had a good year* in 1998.
*) As a reliever so it's not much, and it really wasn't very good for a reliever.
Then there was the three-year contract to Wil Cordero, whom they traded in July of the first year.
For 10-year deals, I'm going with Wayne Garland.
For infinitely long deals, Tim Wakefield is both the best and the worst.
Nah, I'd go with Babe Ruth as best and Bill Bergen for worst under the reserve clause, which Wakefield effectively brought back.
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