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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, January 17, 2012K-Rod signs for $8 millionWhy make billions when you can make millions?
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Posted: January 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. Nasty Nate Posted: January 17, 2012 at 02:11 PM (#4038740)The results were there but by God it didn't FEEL that effective
That fella gave me about 8 heart attacks and four strokes
[It's a heart attack joke, not a political joke -- don't take it personally]
Figured you'd be used to that type of relief appearance. You did live Coco Cordero, or was he not as nerve-racking in Milwaukee?
Can't agree. I would absolutely NOT have wanted the Mets to be on the hook for an $8M contract for K-Rod for 2012. Dealing him had nothing whatsoever to do with the warm bodies the Mets got in return; it had to do with making sure the Mets would not have to bear the risk of his unsupportable option vesting. As it turned out, the Brewers paid him some nominal money to alter the deal and get rid of the option, but there's no guarantee the Mets would have been able to make that same deal. And even if they had, they would either still have ended up with this contract because he accepted arbitration -- and I wouldn't want to be paying him this much -- or they'd have lost him for nothing anyway because he'd have walked when they didn't offer arb. Since I wouldn't have wanted him at this price, the deal remains OK by me.
I have no problem wishing him and the Brewers well, but I equally have no problem wishing him gone.
@12: If he hadn't been K-Rod, I wouldn't have particularly minded the Mets getting his likely 2012 performance for 8m vs. Francisco's likely 2012 season for 6m--all other things being equal. But, it was K-Rod, and the Mets don't need the half a win he might provide over Francisco. For that fractional improvement, there's no reason for this current Mets team to keep a guy who's been a not insignificant part of the unhappy soap opera in Queens. It's like Zambrano in Chicago. The hypothetical--even likely--small improvement ain't worth it. Certainly not for teams that have no hope of contending.
He won't be missed.
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