Sosa Wants $7MM

Sammy!  Sammy Sosa apparently misplaced a decimal point today, declaring that he wants a $7MM contract for 2007.  OK, that's not fair.  He's worth more than $700K.  He did post a better slugging percentage than the average DH, with a .468 mark.

However, the average DH also had a .355 OBP in 2007.  Sammy was at .311.  He hit .328/.410/.613 against lefties and .222/.267/.410 against righties.

Idea time!  GMs in the audience, you can thank me later.  If you're an AL team with an open DH slot, sign Sammy for $4MM.  Then trade for Scott Hatteberg.  You've got a $6MM DH combo right there.  Sosa only faces lefties, Hatteberg only faces righties.  If this pair had been combined like that in 2007, you'd have gotten a .324/.411/.524 line from your DH spot.  Booyah!  Where else are you going to get a .900 OPS for that price?      

Comments

[cyberzero_jays]

This is a great idea!
The only problem is I'm a Jays fan and we already have Lyle Overbay and Frank Thomas manning our DH and 1B spots. =(

[Grant77]

I am too.. anyways, that could be a real nice option for both the Twins and Rangers.

One question:
Have they always hit with those splits or is 2007 just an abberation?

[JasonV]

Please someone agree with me and say Sammy is insane if he thinks he'll land $7MM like dude just because you hit your 600th homerun* doesnt mean your worth the money if its like that then A-Rod's new contract should be 2yrs. $500MM

[Aduncaroo]

Sammy isn't going to get that...maybe half. Still, he did better than most people gave him credit for...and his RBI totals were outstanding, which was kind of a fluke and RBIs are a dumb stat anyway as far as actual stats to judge a player....but it will help his cause because even Elias is using it...so GMs will at least consider it,the dumber ones anyway...

[ArodSucksAtLife]

Tim you were recently thanked as the hardest working man on the internet. While I would give that award to someone on Naughty America, it's something. Even if it was a credit on the end of an awful offseason plan for the Yankees. Congrats.

[FineHamAbounds]

I'd take that in a heart beat. If you have a DH slot, I'm not sure why you wouldn't platoon 2 guys there and get the biggest bang for your buck. No fielding to worry about, and using a split like that to your advantage on a pure hitter? Where do I sign up?

[ArodSucksAtLife]

Considering that Sammy Sosa is boring as all f*ck to me, I'd like to take the time to point out to everyone, that Pedro Martinez is the single greatest pitcher anyone of us has ever seen. Ever.......eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeer. Unless you are an old bastard and actually got to watch Sandy Koufax pitch. Then for you old bastards for what its worth, Pedro was better and it wasn't even close.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=martipe02&year=2000

Just try and wrap your head around that.

Look at his losses.

[ArodSucksAtLife]

Seriously, when you are 80 years olds people will be shitting their pants at the fact that you watched Pedro Martinez pitch. That has to be slightly mindboggling right? The disregard of him makes me wonder how much people actually gave a sh*t about going to a Drysdale or Koufax game.

Bob Gibson that irrelevant pussy. Compare his 1968 season to Pedro's 2000, my god.

[Mike Simms]

Well, I heard there was a team in fantasy land that couldn't wait to give him an offer.

[Kramerica Industries]

Sammy is carzy.

"Now there are rumors circulating that the Yankees are prepared to offer as much as $70 million over five years, a deal that the Red Sox wouldn't — and shouldn't — match."

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7401470

If this true Mike Lowell is as good as gone..

[Land-Man]

"Pedro Martinez is the single greatest pitcher anyone of us has ever seen."

Says you. He's not even the greatest active pitcher. Clemens and Maddux are a tier above Pedro, Big Unit, et al.

If Pedro had been healthy throughout his career your claim would have more merit.

[buehrlebro]

Leave it to a Red Sox fan to take something totally irrelevant and dump it on a credible site. Get this asshole out of here.

[CardinalsFanatic]

This may be a stupid comment, but does Sosa want that money for next season? If so, then it would be for 2008 not for 2007.

[henry14theking]

Oh boy. 5/70 for Lowell in Yankee Stadium?

His away numbers were horrible this year.

Someone needs to tell Cashman that a team of overpaid 35 year olds isn't the way to go. He got the pitching part down pat, now he just needs to get some young hitters.

[scribbletone]

If Lowell gets 70 million, then someone should punch Brian Cashman in the face. Is he trying to make them shittier with that signing? Go trade for Atkins or something. Lowell deserves 3/36 or something

[nrmax88]

"Leave it to a Red Sox fan to take something totally irrelevant and dump it on a credible site. Get this asshole out of here."

Its funny, if you take out "red", and replace it with "white", you could be talking about yourself.

[boomshwa12]

dude shut up. sandy koufax threw a no-hitter in each of the last 4 years of his career, and threw 300+ innings in each of those seasons. in 65, the year he retired, he won games 2 and 5 of the world series before coming back to pitch game 7 on 2 days rest. the dodgers could have started drysdale, and supposedly his arm hurt so bad that he couldn't snap off his curveball. but he threw a 3-hit shutout to win the series

didn't pedro get tired after like 7 or 8 innings in the alcs against the yanks a few years back? and he didn't log near as many innings or pitch in as much pain as koufax did. go check out koufax's stats, then come back and tell me who's better

[boomshwa12]

wait my bad that was the second to last year of koufax's career that he did that. the year after that, against doctor's orders, he went 27-9 with a 1.73 in 323 innings

[ArodSucksAtLife]

Weird.

Anyways, that was supposed to say did he do that while being the greatest advertisement for Soul-Glo of all time and associating with the world's shortest man? I think not.

http://cache.boston.com/images/bostondirtdogs//Headline_Archives/pedro_reuters.jpg

[boomshwa12]

haha, i'm a pedro fan, don't get me wrong. he was pretty nasty in his prime, he's just not better than a guy like koufax

[nrmax88]

boomshwa your an idiot. You just wasted a lot of time because he clearly said.... Pedro is the best pitcher you will see unless u were lucky enough to watch Koufax. And comparing pitchers from this generation to one 30 years ago is just stupid. You dont sound all intelligent just so you know, you sound kind of stupid for arguing something that nobody is trying to disprove, and comparing pitchers from era wheres there was a 4 man rotation and then asking why Koufax logged more innings. Keep up the good work everybody is so proud of you.

[boomshwa12]

"Unless you are an old bastard and actually got to watch Sandy Koufax pitch. Then for you old bastards for what its worth, Pedro was better and it wasn't even close."

read the rest of it dude. the "pedro is better and it isn't even close" would indicate otherwise

[Land-Man]

Pedro is a fragile woman of a pitcher.