Posted on 12/12/2015 11:36:28 AM PST by Jim W N
Will the Dodgers miss the playoffs next year?
The question gained a significant amount of gravity Friday, as the Dodgers received word that Zack Greinke wouldn't return next season.
Greinke agreed to a six-year deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Greinke's departure figures to be a setback for the Dodgers, whose rotation now consists of Clayton Kershaw and a series of wild cards.
Greinke finished second this year in voting for the Cy Young Award, close behind Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs.
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The Giants need more GOOD pitchers.
Woot! Goldschmidt, Pollack, Corbin, Greinke and Shelby Miller. We’re building our own All Star Team. We got two Zacks full on the mound. Greinke and Godley.
I believe Greinke said he would go wherever the most money was offered.
Brian Sabean said the Giants wouldn’t go for a sixth year. One story had the Giants offering $195 million.
Guy isn’t worth the money for a six year contract. He had three good seasons, last year was a monster, but is bound to regress to his norm.
By my calculations ,if he pitches about every 5th game and throws 100 pitches per game(unlikely)with his 36 million dollar salary per year(more or less) he is costing, get this, about $10,000 PER PITCH. An intentional walk=$40,000? C’mon America, get real! Is my math wrong?
The Giants didn’t want to spend that kind of money
for that length of a contract period. We’ll see how
they do with Samardzija who didn’t tear it up
w/the Chisox last season. Let the Dodgers, Red Sox,
Yanks try to buy their way into the series. The Giants
don’t roll that way to their credit.
I wonder why? Greinke almost certainly would put them in the playoffs and a contender to win it all again.
Probably because pitchers' arms don't seem to last that long anymore. Also, for some reason, the Giants have a hard time keeping their pitchers' ERA's low for an extended time unlike Atlanta in the 90's who had the same pitchers/rotation pitching great year after year.
Seems like it would have been worth it.
Because a guy who only plays every 5th game is grossly over priced at 34 million a year. I know the MLB cap is just a suggestion, but damn are they over paying. And that means they’ll suck for the length of this contract, plus probably just as long on the other side as they try to rebuild. Fastest way to kill a team is overpaying for talent.
Yet if a Doctor, Surgeon, Business owner, Lawyer, Plumber Electrician and/or virtually anyone else makes him/her self a hell of a good living, they are labeled as greedy, selfish, uncaring rip-off artists and charlatans.
But if a (truly) talented athlete or a silicon enhanced movie star signs a multi-million dollar contract the people rise up cheering and applauding.
Does this say anything about values?
I remember as a kid, reading editorials and sermons against greed and avarice when TED WILLIAMS signed a 4100,000 contract with the Red Sox.
Your math is good he’s over paid and yet sports fans whine about Ceo’s income who really do something for a living.
A baseball geek might say he was worth it, using WAR.
A win-above-replacement is worth $8 mil, so Greinke’s WAR of 4 or so would be worth his $30+ million annual salary.
Timmy and Matt are going to make wonderful recoveries and they win their 4th in this millennium.. Leakes is insurance.. Too bad Aoki is gone.
Oh vell.
Timmy may have to find another rotation to play for. If
he is kept he will be in the bullpen with the Giants
That’s, what...207k a game?
Or around a million dollars per start.
Pro salaries in general are getting way too high. Paying this much for a part-time player who relies on eight others to function is ridiculous. Team owners need to go to a results oriented system of pay, something like a base salary plus performance bonus.
When I see ticket prices to pro sports events, which help pay these high salaries, you wonder who is buying the tickets. How many people take the family to a ball game nowadays, vs. how many tickets are bought by corporations and the wealthy, who get a tax write off for buying the tickets???
I wonder if pro sports as we know them will survive into the future, if tax laws changed, and/or corporate types stopped buying the tickets. Could you still have these multimillion dollar contracts if ticket sales and TV viewership declines???
They did get Samardzija, who's not quite in Greinke's class, but is a pretty good pitcher. Suppose they get another good, not great, pitcher and maybe a hitter. Would that be a more effective use of their money than tying it up in one player?
And Shelby Miller.
At Greinke’s age, I’m not sure I’d go for a sizth year either. The Diamondbcaks figure to get about three good years out of Greinke.
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