Lance Berkman - Part 4

LOL I think the plan for now is to put him in LF... and Matt "I drop important line drives" Holliday in RF? It makes no sense, and there was an article I read calling it a good deal because it's "only" $8M. UMMM WTF!? That's probably close to 10% of their payroll! I'd wager it's equal to or more than the percent of the Cards' payroll vs Ollie's salary and the Mets' payroll. Did that make sense?

Speaking of Ollie and not making sense, read this quote from http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5863996 "New York Mets left-hander Oliver Perez is still as wild as ever, but somehow he's getting better results in the Mexican Pacific League than he did in the past two seasons in the major leagues." (You can read the article for some stats...)

He's somehow doing better? SOMEHOW? PROBABLY BECAUSE IT'S THE #$%^&^$ MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE!!!!! The opposing bats will be much worse... but the strike zone is the same - that 9 bb/15IP is all I care about - not k's (which could be due to poor contact ability on their part) and I give two %$#^& about ERA. But $%#&, man, 9 walks in 15 innings?! That's like 6 per 9. I guess this is from espndeportes so I should say AYE DIOS MIO!

-Natron (12/7/10)

Lance Berkman - Part 3

It's pretty unreal. Maybe he'll make his grand return to right field? There was a time when he played there (with a weak arm - and last played in 2007). He's listed as the St. Louis Cardinals DH, which is funny given the roster spots available to DH's on NL teams. Hmm...

-StanO (12/6/10)

Lance Berkman - Part 2

I have no understanding of Berkman's contract. Forth the money he's owed, where on earth are the Cards gonna play him?! You got Pujols at first and Holliday in left. Honestly, where are they gonna play him?!

-Natron (12/5/10)

Lance Berkman - Part 1

Given that Berkman's numbers have declined in two consecutive years, how does he STILL get an $8 million deal for one year? I could see $8 million for two...

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=4118

-StanO (12/5/10)

What is he Werth, again?

Natron said it. The Nats messed up the whole market. Just when player contracts were moving in a "more reasonable direction," Werth signs an ABSURD contract. My goodness. Too long. Too much money. Both the years and per annum pay are way too elevated.

-StanO (12/6/10)

What is he Werth? Guest Time!

It's a good thing the Yanks aren't in the market for Crawford. Looks like they have Jeter signed and Rivera. Now if we can secure Lee we're pretty set in the free agent market.

Unless that rumor of us trading for Greinke is true...

-Ronjaya (12/6/10)

What is he Werth? Continued...

My best understanding with this is that the only way Werth could agree to play for the lowly Nats is if they overpaid and over-yeared him. I don't think any team would have given that to anyone on the market, even Crawford was unlikely to get that money... Now, though, how does Crawford accept anything less than this??

Even the Nats GM said they went overboard with the years so that JW would sign. It's all preposterous.

-Natron (12/5/10)