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Ben Sheets' Last Year in Milwaukee?
We're well-overdue for a Ben Sheets rumor. I like Michael Hunt's point on what could be the inevitable departure of Sheets:
"Chances are this is Big Ben's last season with the Brewers, unless another medical anomaly throws a fat one over the heart of the team's checkbook. But that's the catch: The Brewers need him to be so good and healthy that he'll be out of their economic grasp. Such is their balancing act... Absent the miraculous - the union agreeing to a salary drag - the Brewers can't keep everyone. Maybe there's your Sheets decision."
If Hunt is right and Sheets has to leave, with Yovani Gallardo in the wings and a youthful studly lineup locked up the Brewers should be just fine. Sheets is due $11MM this year, the final year of his contract, with a limited no-trade clause (can be dealt to only 8 teams). There's a long list of starting pitching in the 2009 MLB free agent pool and if Sheets can remain healthy then he could even be up for a pay raise.
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Who are the 8 teams?
Posted by: Jay107 | March 02, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Unknown, at least on Cot's. Maybe I can dig.
Posted by: Tim Dierkes | March 02, 2008 at 12:37 PM
That's where I checked too. I wouldn't know where else to look.
Posted by: Jay107 | March 02, 2008 at 12:46 PM
I know the Yanks, Red Sox, Mets are 3 of them...
He actually really loves the Brewers and Milwaukee..
The BRewers have a lot of money coming off the books end of this year..close to 30-35 million dollars and even more with some club option guys leaving...
Who knows...if he has a good year I could see him get 16 million a year...maybe he would take 14 million a year to stay with the Brewers
But if he does good and same with Gagne and turnbow.. The Brewers then have 3 type A free agents..and at worst should be type B free agents
Posted by: erbacaine | March 02, 2008 at 02:30 PM
The Brewers going to raise their payroll with the extra revenue from last season and possibly this season?
Any word on that?
Posted by: Jay107 | March 02, 2008 at 06:58 PM