Odds And Ends: Beckham, Rangers, Peterson, Drew

I agree that Drew was worth the money. I think I'm one of few who never doubted his return to form. Look at beckett. struggled his first year with boston turned out to be their ace. Coming to the Red Sox or Yankees is like coming to a different league. There is a different set of expectations set on you and you know how short the leash is and how fast especially hank steinbrenners trigger finger is. You are expected to come in and win. If you don't, the fans dont stop showing up because thier team is still good. but you will certainly hear your boos and "you weren't worth the money" and other lines that start to get to your head. This is mainly done in New York as Boston fans seem to be a little gentler to their struggling players but both beckett and drew have heard the questions surrounding their struggles in their first years with boston respectively.

"This is mainly done in New York as Boston fans seem to be a little gentler to their struggling players..." You should probably ask Mark Bellhorn what he thinks about that. Boston media and fans can be just as harsh and fickle as New York media and fans.

I'd like to see Drew keep up this production before declaring it to be a good signing. I wasn't on the I hate JD Drew banwagon last year simply because of fierce loyalty, but I will say I'm very happy to see he's stepped up much more than I anticipated he would.

"This is mainly done in New York as Boston fans seem to be a little gentler to their struggling players but both beckett and drew have heard the questions surrounding their struggles in their first years with boston respectively."

That's hilarious.

I hope something horrible happens to Julio Lugo.

Making fun of Carl Pavano is like flipping someone out of a wheelchair. Sure it's funny, but honestly, what's the challenge?

AA,
passan states in the introduction that he did not include "players who have yet to hit arbitration. Baseball rules artificially depress their salary, and the credit due to teams for signing them doesn’t apply." so that rules out martin as he doesn't hit arb until 2010 and mccann would be in the same position if he didn't sign his big contract, which i think is what passan means by "the credit due to teams for signing them doesn't apply." the way i see it, he is pointing out extraordinary circumstances. an overpaid veteran who is underperforming or an underpaid veteran who is playing well. either way, his intent is to focus on veterans whose contract doesn't match their production. it's easy to make a list with guys like mccann or martin because you could say that just about any young player with their ML experience is underpaid. the norm (though we have seen exceptions this year particularly with longoria, braun, etc.) is that a young player plays a few seasons at the min, becomes arb eligible, and then signs a big contract.

Take a players two best months away from him and he isn't very good. Okay, got it. My mistake.

Passan is right about everyone on that list. With all those Dodgers on that list, I am shocked Ned Colletti still has a job. If someone ran my company as poorly as Colletti has run the Dodgers, he would have been fired by now.

Newberg had me until "And then, when the Yankees reluctantly agreed to include both Phil Hughes and Jesus Montero in their four-player offer, Cleveland came back and said Davis or Ramirez or Font needs to be in the conversation to stay in the game?"

LOL! Not happening. Hughes and Montero are untouchables. If the Indians asked for them, Cashman would hang up.