Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
1) You don't know that. It sounds like Richards was set on NYR and was willing to take a slight discount to go there.
2) I don't any of the other serious offers were far off what he ended up with. At most they'd be a million less a season or 2-3 years less. Either way, they'd all be relatively long term contracts, that would be in similar in nature to what Richards got.
To criticize Feaster for taking a shot on Richards is ridiculous. Every GM who could did the same thing. All the analysts said he was worth it too. Richards was universally described as one of the hottest commodities to ever reach free agency. With his style of game, he was predicted to play at top form for many years to come. It didn't happen that way. No one can predict the future.
|
A lot of GM's backed off because the bidding was getting ridiculously high. And while analysts thought he'd get a lot, a lot of people knew some idiot sucker would win the Richards sweepstakes but in a few years would be left holding the bag..... in fact lots of people here thought that.