that sox 250/8 just might have been more attractive than 330/13

Both of these guys got signed for near predicted market values. Both were interested in the Sox. Both signed elsewhere.

I'd be almost as angry as I was about Machado but I'm anesthetized to the pain now.

Hey, that money will be spent...on some no talent kegger.

You look at their off season moves this season and they amount to about $45 million for a big pile of shit. That is almost two years worth of Harper.

Hilarious photo.

Why do you guys not like Harper?

The hair?

So Boras says he wanted to be in one city and all that....but is he really going to be happy in 5 years making 25 million a season if more guys are getting more than him? That 13 yr no opt out deal sounds good to him now, but will it in the future? Still seems crazy to me.

Sounds like the Cubs really didn’t have a chance ever.

Why do you guys not like Harper?

The hair?

Cubs we're his preferred destination, that broke bitch Ricketts dropped the ball.

We don't want him, 312. We do it The Cubs Way.

White

Cubs we're his preferred destination, that broke bitch Ricketts dropped the ball.

while Harper and Arietta push for a World Series.

Whenever I hear about one of these huge contracts I recoil, but the actual results have not been as awful as I thought they were. I pulled a list of the biggest contracts in MLB history that were signed at least three years ago (so we can have some perspective). Here it is:

1. Giancarlo Stanton, 2014, 13/325 (a rough patch with injuries in 2015 and 2016, but so far so good)
2. A-Rod, 2008, 10/275, (three good years, then he fell off the cliff)
3. A-Rod, 2001, 10/252/ (insanely good performance for the seven years he actually played under this contract)
4. Robinson Cano, 2014, 10/240 (solid performance)
5. Albert Pujols, 2012, 10/240 (two good years, the rest were middling or awful)
6. Joey Votto, 2014 10/225 (so far so good)
7. Prince Fielder, 2012 9/214 (two good years, the rest were awful)
8. Max Scherzer 2015, 7/210 (excellent so far)
9. Derek Jeter, 2001, 10/189 (eight years were solid to great)
10. Joe Mauer, 2011, 8/184 (two good years, the rest were pretty bad)

So four (A-Rod II, Pujols, Fielder, Mauer) of these mega deals were pretty bad, three (A-Rod I, Votto, Scherzer) were pretty good, and three (Stanton, Cano, Jeter) were solid. That 40% disaster rate is not good, but you've still a got a better than 50/50 chance of the contract being at least decent.

So Boras says he wanted to be in one city and all that....but is he really going to be happy in 5 years making 25 million a season if more guys are getting more than him? That 13 yr no opt out deal sounds good to him now, but will it in the future? Still seems crazy to me.

Slow your role there, Juiced

I don't see that happening at all. They won't even sniff a World Series so I hope he enjoys that $$$.

that sox 250/8 just might have been more attractive than 330/13

Both of these guys got signed for near predicted market values. Both were interested in the Sox. Both signed elsewhere.

I dont think Harper was interested in the Sox.

I bet hell make over 300 milliyin endorsements over the next 8 years.

Harper's deal with the Phillies expires after the 2032 season. That seems like a lifetime away. But throughout that lifetime, and on the four July firsts that follow the end of the Harper megadeal, Bobby Bonilla will arrive in Flushing to pick up his annual seven figure check.

Regarding this and your earlier post... Outside of money I do not get why he would not want to have his family and so on for 13 years in Chicago. Especially with his buddy on the other side of town. That is besides the 330M guaranteed.

As for that I can completely see there being a wink and nod that he will only play 10 out of 13.

Regarding this and your earlier post... Outside of money I do not get why he would not want to have his family and so on for 13 years in Chicago. Especially with his buddy on the other side of town. That is besides the 330M guaranteed.

As for that I can completely see there being a wink and nod that he will only play 10 out of 13.

They might not, but how the hell are any of us to know what the league will be like in 2030?


They'll be good for a while.

I predict:
They will win a World Series in the next three years.
Arietta makes the all star team this year.
Tatis is ROY