Dan Le Betard, on ESPN and the Marlin's beat writer, declared himself the one who gave the choice on his ballot to Deadspin, for multiple reasons (none of them money).
Here's a picture of the ballot...if there's ANY doubt of how stupidly stuck baseball is in its own arcahic history, here's a great example...MS Word document with wingdings, fax/mail as the only way to enter...and an .aol email address.
Alex Rodriguez has been suspended for the entire 2014 season by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who handed down a 162-game ban to the New York Yankees third baseman for his involvement in Major League Baseball's Biogenesis scandal.
The suspension also includes all potential playoff games in 2014.
Horowitz's ruling upholds a good portion of the original 211-game suspension levied by MLB, which banned Rodriguez in August after concluding its investigation. Rodriguez continued playing after appealing the decision.
Risky paying a pitcher that much. Tim Lincecum seems washed up at 29.
The contract has an out after 5 years. If I recall, Kershaw is 25 or 26 years old, so it's not as if they are paying for his 35-40 years or anything. I'd suspect deals like this (mega bucks, 'shorter term') may become more common in the short-term.
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Yankees win the Tanaka sweepstakes, 7 years and $155 million to get it done, plus a $20 million posting fee to Tanaka's former team. All it takes is one Red Sox World Series win to send the Yankees into megaspending mode.
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$22 million per season for a pitcher that has never pitched an inning in the MLB, over double what the Rangers had to pay for Darvish. Crazy.
No kidding. He also gets a living allowance, $85K annually for an interpreter of his choice and a few other "perks" as well. I hope he sucks in MLB like other Japanese hurlers who have tried to make the transition previously. The Yankees deserve as much suck as possible.
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$22 million per season for a pitcher that has never pitched an inning in the MLB, over double what the Rangers had to pay for Darvish. Crazy.
As a salary yes, but overall cost, it's close...the Rangers paid Darvish's team almost $52m as a posting fee. That was capped this year by MLB at $20m....so the Rangers really paid another $32m posting cash.
