Lowe Wants $16MM

is that 16mil maybe the discount rate lowe is willing to take to sign with the red sox, he's made it clear that he wants to play for them. 16mil seems pretty fair compared to what cc and aj will get

there is no way any1 signs a 35 year old pitcher for 16 mill. unless your desperate like the yankees are! man one missed playoff and they are out to spend as much as humanly possible!

4 years $64 million. Mets should offer that to him right now. Considering Sabathia is getting ~25 million a year, 16 million for the consistent Lowe is a good deal.

You've got a pitcher who has never been on the DL and was consistently good over the past four years. He's started at least 32 games and 200 innings all four years (well, 199 1/3 in 2007). Compare that to the $13MM Dempster got for 1 year of starting and I'd say that's a good contract. 3 or 4 years for a sinker ball pitcher who doesn't rely on the radar gun to get outs? Too bad he doesn't want to stay in LA. He was great to have.

As a Mets fan, I wouldn't give him 4 years. I wish Omar would get younger...I can see Lowe being the next guy we sign long term that snaps his elbow. UGH!

$16M is way to high for a guy like Lowe. He eats innings, but is not a #1 by any means. Here are the pitchers making more by average than he would at $16M.
Here is his comps:

1. Sabathia - Asumption -$25.00M/Avg
2. Santana - $22.917M
3. Zambrano - $18.30M
4. Zito - $18.00M
5. Burnett - $16.00M - Assumed
6. Pettite - $16.00M - (1 year deal)

I would think a deal in the $13.5M-$14.5M over 3 years with a option is more likely.

The last mega deal the Yanks signed (5 years or better) was for Mike Mussina (6 yrs/88 mil). I'll sit back and breeze thru all the posts about how the Yanks are responsible for all the evils of the world. The Pavano deal, despit being a big mistake due to his injuries, @ 4/40 was no where near being a big contract compared to other deals that were signed prior to his. However, there still lies this ridculous commentary that somehow were the ones who set forth the pitching spending spree. And please before I hear it, the Yanks are in need of an ace and everyone in the world knows CC was looking for Santana type money and needed an incentive to not sign with a west coast team. I can live with the top player getting the top money. It all started with Zito. (Boras' quote "Seeking Zito-type money).

And I was referring to mega deals for a pitcher.

It started with Hampton, not Zito

I can see the Yanks doing 5 years $100M... would make sense to them.

I thought Kevin Brown started it all, though he did work out somewhat better than Zito and Hampton. Asking for 'Zito-type' money is hilarious considering pretty much all of baseball knows Zito isn't worth close to his contract.

As a sidenote I'm glad to hear most GMs are dismissing any agent using Silva's horrible contract last year as a benchmark. Teams shouldn't have to accept ridiculous contracts for mediocre pitchers just because one GM made a stupid mistake one year and accidently changed the market.

"I can see the Yanks doing 5 years $100M... would make sense to them."

I'm not even a Yankees fan but my god am I irritated by everyone calling out the Yankees wallet. You're all sounding like cynical crybabies.

Yes you are right. Kevin Brown, Mike Hampton, Chan Ho Park, Darren Dreifort, Barry Zito. I have no problems with the money that guys like Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux, Mike Mussina and even Johan Santana received. great players deserve more money than the mediocre ones. problem is that a good agent will say why should my guy who's a Cy Young winner accept less money than a guy who was 10-17 last year and is avg $18 mil a year?

The braves better jump now and offer 17million to lowe and 5 million to ben sheets and get at least one of them signed then go after peavy.

Not that I'm advocating a $165million pay roll.

Aha!!!!.. Kenan and Kel has finally been identified as a Red Sucks lover. Now it all makes sense.... :)

Theo knows Lowe was done after 04 and made the right move then by letting him walk. He will do the right thing again and stay away. So he was good in the NL what does that tell you about how he can pitch in the AL in the latter stages of his career? Nothing.

I'm a big fan of Burnett and his stuff but not a big fan of his history of arm troubles. The problem is that there's a huge fall off after CC. There are no "tried and true" studs that don't have some sort of baggage or issues.

Dempster-Lack of a resume as a starter

Sheets and Burnett- Health history.

Lowe, Pettite, Mussina, Pedro- Age and long term durability.

So what do you do? Roll the dice and hope for the best or pass completely. Unfortunately for the Yanks we don't have the depth in the farm to make a big trade like that for Peavy. So either we just go with CC or we, along with other teams hoping to get better this year, roll the dice and hope we get lucky.

four years, $64MM for Lowe?

NO THANKS.

Again, I'll repeat:

Lowe spent three seasons (99-01) in the bullpen. He's a 36-y.o. with a 33-y.o. arm.

Anyone offering 4/$64 might regret the fourth year of the contract, but for a team needing an effective starter who does more than eat innings, Lowe is not a bad choice.

Wren, make it happen.

Who ever give Lowe a $16M salary is an idiot...He's 35 years old and Dodgers stadium is a pitchers park and he plays in the weak NL West...The highest is go is 3 years $39M.