Robertson Looking For Extension

4 Years 36MM seams more reasonable.

In exchange for the extra year he may give the team an option year at 12MM.

nate is worth locking up for a few more years. but the dollars you guys are throwing out there are the same as what's being discussed for a dontrelle extension and also what bonderman got a year ago. these are two players that nate is rightly behind in the rotation. did he have a season that warrants a 150% pay raise?
that said, i'd rather give that money to nate more than a lohse or a silva or whatever muddling back of the rotation guy would otherwise be there to collect the money in a year or two.

As long as Dontrelle works out and is extended, Porcello looks like he will be big league ready by 2010, we pay Verlander his ace money, and plan on giving Bonderman another contract after 2010, then I say letting Robertson walk after 09 is a no brainer. Our payroll is gonna skyrocket with Verlander and Cabrera extensions. Alternatively, I'd be all for locking Nate up low and shopping Bonderman down the line.

Robertson can easily make $10MM per when he hits free agency, I don't see why he'd take less money when guys like Carlos Silva are about to make $44MM over 4.

“Robertson can easily make $10MM per when he hits free agency, I don't see why he'd take less money when guys like Carlos Silva are about to make $44MM over 4”

Are you kidding? Silva sadly is much better than Robertson, and has shown much, much more ability although not quite as consistent. Here:

2003 ~ 087.1 IP, 4.43 ERA vs 3.99 *LgERA, 1.477 WHIP
2004 ~ 203.0 IP, 4.21 ERA vs 4.73 *LgERA, 1.429 WHIP
2005 ~ 188.1 IP, 3.44 ERA vs 4.45 *LgERA, 1.173 WHIP
2006 ~ 180.1 IP, 5.94 ERA vs 4.47 *LgERA, 1.542 WHIP
2007 ~ 202.0 IP, 4.19 ERA vs 4.33 *LgERA, 1.312 WHIP
Check out those numbers outside of the horrible 06 campaign ~ that’s far superior, 04-05 were great and 07 was on the nice side of LgAvg as well.

Even with 06, this is what the career numbers look like:
CAR ~ 945.0 IP, 4.31 ERA to 4.39 *LgERA (-.08 to Avg), 1.368 WHIP

To Robertson looking like this:
CAR ~ 832.2 IP, 4.60 ERA vs 4.45 *LgERA (+.15 to Avg), 1.411 WHIP

Even Jason Marquis is a bit better than Nate, and he only signed for an average of what, like 7M a year I believe… Robertson is not worth more than 7M really, and 9M max ~ he’s a SP4 type who is rather old at this point and has only had one fluke year of anything resembling true success. He's on the negative side of LgAvg ~ his IP are the only real plus so he should not get 10M or more...