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Jack Conness
Another AWESOME deal for the White Sox. Even if Quintana doesn’t become a superstar, five million or so for a starting pitcher in the Bigs is a great deal. I love it. Sale and Quintana COULD be (down the road) the best bang for your buck 1-2 starters in the game. GO SOX! AND RICK HAHN!
silverwidow
Jose Fernandez/Andrew Heaney in Miami will probably be better.
Jack Conness
Andrew Heaney has never thrown a pitch in the Majors, so it is kind of hard to argue that.
silverwidow
You mentioned “down the road” in your first post. Present day, I’d take Fernandez over Sale. Heaney is obviously wait-and-see, but I think most would value him over Quintana long term.
John Billings
Dang, man. Can’t we just be happy with our signing? There are a lot of great pitchers in this league, and this is how we’re building our foundation.
johnnynewguy
There is argument to be made that Sale is the best pitcher in the AL and top 5 in baseball. Present day you should take Sale. Down the road maybe Fernandez.
authenhausen
Until the marlins trade Fernandez for prospects
brian310
Very fair deal. If he is great: steal. If he is just average or a bit below average, it doesn’t hurt the team. Imagine if they had been able to sign Tanaka too. They’d be able to afford one high priced contract in the rotation while others are making bread crumbs (Sale and Quintana on great deals and also Johnson will also be making the minimum the next 3 seasons).
lug
John Danks disagrees with this post.
brian310
Danks is making like 13 mill which isn’t as bad annually as other pitchers have gotten this off season. He is coming off that shoulder injury so you can throw last year away. Now that he has had a normal off season to prepare for this upcoming off-season, he should pitch better and possibly dealt at the deadline.
mikecws91
Why deal him? The plan is to compete in 2015 or 2016. If Danks looks good this year, he makes that a greater possibility.
westcoastwhitesox
That’s a big ‘if’…in my opinion he’s never looked like a $13mm per year pitcher.
mikecws91
Were you not around for 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2011?
LazerTown
Probably right on the mark.
If it runs through 2018 then it includes this year. So for $21.5MM it includes 2 pre-arb seasons, or $20.5MM for 3 arb seasons. He probably could outearn it if he keeps going this way, but if he washes out he has some nice security.
Pretty good rule 5 pick, really wish he was still on the Yankees now.
Bronx Bombers
He had some good numbers in the Yankee farm system, that’s surprising he never ranked that high.
Justin Allen
The White Sox claimed him from the Yankees. Later it leaked out that he was acutally a ptbnl that was slid under the table, but was never confirmed
StevetheBaker
the ptbnl idea makes no sense.
westcoastwhitesox
yeah. I’ve seen enough to have the opinion he isn’t a big-game, big-money, top-of-the-rotation pitcher. An awesome year would totally change my opinion, though! I’m looking forward to this year on the south side.
Mason Malmuth
2005 called to let you know that the going rate for “big-money, top-of-the-rotation” pitchers is quite a bit more than 13m.
mikecws91
Some pitchers who got “big money” with multiyear deals this offseason:
Matt Garza ($12.5M/year)
Ubaldo Jimenez ($12.5M)
Ricky Nolasco ($12.25M)
Scott Kazmir ($11M)
Scott Feldman ($10M)
Bartolo Colon ($10M)
At the time Danks signed his extension, he was way better than all of these guys are now.
WillieWildkat
Not a big-game pitcher? What part of Gm 163 don’t you remember?