Ramirez to Dodgers, finally?
ESPN is reporting that Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers have come to terms on a 2-year deal, details of which have yet to be released. Of course, while I'm watching this on TV right now, ESPN has yet to update their site.
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I don't know the numbers yet, but the Dodgers clearly overpaid
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by NYRoyal on Mar 4, 2009 5:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
It's Colleti, are you surprised by that?
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by NHZ on Mar 4, 2009 5:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Nope
He’s been determined to give ManRam too much money all offseason. Looks like he’s finally landed his big overpaid whale.
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by NYRoyal on Mar 4, 2009 5:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Looking at it just from a WAR standpoint,
Manny WILL help the Dodgers. But it’ll be a joke that’s not particularly funny if he gets over 20 milion a year, as the rumors to say.
May I say that it’s good to be blogging with you again? :)
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by NHZ on Mar 4, 2009 5:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Welcome back
It’s good to have you back in the fold. It was really uncool of Will to ban and exile you there for a while. But I’m confident you’ve been rehabilitated and are ready to be a productive member of society again.*
Manny is likely good for around 4 WAR (with a significance chance of collapsing down to 2-3 WAR due to his age). Of course Ned doesn’t care that such production used to be worth about $20M per year and is now worth about $16M. So he’s throwing $25M at him. And given his age, Manny will likely be more like a 3.5 WAR player (or considerably worse) in the second year of his contract.
If I were Colletti, I would have offered him 2/34 with significant bonuses for massive production (let’s say top 5 MVP voting, or some other awards like Silver Slugger). Then I would have given him a hard deadline of March 15. If he doesn’t want it or can get more elsewhere, then he can go there or sit out the year.
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by NYRoyal on Mar 4, 2009 6:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Forgot my asterisk
- - for those who may be relatively new to Royals Review, the second and third sentences were a joke.
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by NYRoyal on Mar 4, 2009 6:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's OK that you forgot your asterisk.
The only good place for those is in the Hall of Fame.*
WTF, self?
by minda33 on Mar 4, 2009 11:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think that would've been a good offer
but Colletti wouldn’t have the stones to recognize who has the leverage.
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by NHZ on Mar 5, 2009 12:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
but what about the offeres from those "other teams?????////??slash?"
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by devil_fingers on Mar 5, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, Snakeskin Boots...
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by NHZ on Mar 5, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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