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bigpat
It’s funny that the oldest and most out of shape guy actually stayed reasonably productive throughout the length of his contract, Lee, meanwhile guys like Soriano and Wells are completely useless, and Werth and Crawford are making teams regret their deals one year in. Baseball is a funny game sometimes.
BlueSkyLA
It can be freaking hilarious. You didn’t include the Angels more recent signings. Maybe they aren’t there yet but Regretsville is ahead on the roadmap. So much of this game is luck, good and bad. Maybe that’s why the players are so superstitious.
Kyle MacGregor
I think the entertainment value of watching El Caballo get on his horse and leg out a triple is worth $18MM. Took a little more out of him than the usual sprint singles or trot around the basepaths.
Tony Watson
Houston fans would much rather see the declining Lee depart and sign Berkman as a free agent to be DH next year. Lee is still productive but not a middle of the order threat any longer.
stroh
Not only have the Astros only $17M in contract commitments, next year they have a cable deal with Comcast for an additional $30M in revenue (in adddition to this year). So take the $61M payroll this year (which is by far the lowest it has been since the early 1990s for the Astros) and add $30M in revenue from the Comcast deal and this team can easily afford a $90M payroll. But, the Astros are committed to youth, and Crane has said he wants to slowly build up the payroll to what it should be. Agree that Berkman at $5-6M (if he will sign for that) would be better than Lee at $2-3M, but maybe they could use both, with Berkman at 1B and Lee at DH. Jonathan Singleton, who is a minor league baseball top-50 1B prospect is in AA this year, and may not make it up to the bigs until Sep next year — he is doing well in AA but probably can use the extra time in AAA. Plus, Berkman remains an Astro by all accounts even though he wears a Cardinals uniform — he has said as much.
Dano
still playin money ball, come on man