Thread: 2010 American League East

Ah.... the Red Sox came back last night.

Jays are going to have it extremely difficult this year. Hope we see some more young talent step.

Jays just signed Adam Lind to a decent contract.

Interesting.....a different look.

I'm not too happy about seeing Josh Beckett getting knocked around.

Didn't the Red Sox win the first 8 or 9 against the Yankees last year? That worked out well in the end.

Anyway, full slate of games today!

I like the addition of Scuttaro and Beltre.

Beltre could have a real good year, being a righty in that park.

Sox sign Beckett to 4 year extension.
Beckett agrees to four-year extension - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog

wow Vernon Wells actually did something. Homerun

Good first full day of baseball!

Jason Heyward hits a BOMB in his first ML plate appearance.
Albert Pooholes hits two home runs.
Roy Halladay and Tim Lincecum looked great.
Mark Buehrle made what will probably be the best defensive play of the season.

HOORAY baseball!

That Buehrle play was unreal. I still can't believe it.

Jays lost..... However Marcum had a very strong start.
We gots issues at the closer position.

Hopefully Vernon Wells is awake this season.... looked good at the plate yesterday.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Hopefully Vernon Wells is awake this season.... looked good at the plate yesterday.

For the sake of the Blue Jays, I hope he does well. That contract is an anchor otherwise.

wow!Buehrle's wizardry reaches another level | MLB.com: News

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

For the sake of the Blue Jays, I hope he does well. That contract is an anchor otherwise.

Yep 23 mill next year, then 21 mill the next 3 after that.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Yep 23 mill next year, then 21 mill the next 3 after that.

If this was the NFL, he'd have been cut.

From an SI article on MLB's worst contracts:

1. Vernon Wells (Toronto Blue Jays). Cot's Baseball Contracts -- the incredibly awesome site where I got these numbers from -- is one of my favorite Internet stops. And on occasion, just for fun, I will go to the site just to look up Vernon Wells' contract. I don't know why. It gives me hope, somehow. It tells me that in this world, anything is possible. It tells me that good things happen, funny things, unexpected things. Don't tell me that I won't win the lottery ... just look at Vernon Wells' contract.

In 2011 Vernon Wells will get paid $23 million. No. Really. He will get paid $23 million.

In 2012 he will have to take a paycut and will only get $21 million. Same in 2013. And same again in 2014.

This isn't a baseball contract. This is a testament to the power of mankind to do the impossible.

Oh, Vernon Wells also has a full no-trade clause in his contract. Well, sure, why not? Then, what difference would it make? This is the most untradable contract in the history of the world. Vernon Wells turns 31 this year. The Dewan has him a minus-29 center fielder, which means he's exactly as bad defensively as you can be while a manager who is still breathing allows you to play centerfield. He has an 85 OPS+. He has a lifetime .329 on-base percentage. He's slugging .408. He IS third in the American League in making outs. So he has that going for him.

And it never made sense. Ever. Wells had a very good year in 2003 (and he was a very good fielder then), a couple of OK years, a good year in 2006 at age 27. But he never got on base much, and he was inconsistent, and ... then the Blue Jays gave him this hysterical contract: seven years, $126 million.

This deal, to be honest, is not the sort of thing that leads to a general manager getting fired. It's the sort of thing that leads to entire villages getting pillaged. And that's what I mean about Ricciardi. I mean, this contract alone should be enough to put him in the Bad Contract Hall of Fame. But when you look over the whole body of work ... he IS the Bad Contract Hall of Fame.

In fact, really, we should just start referring to bad baseball contracts as "Ricciardis."

This room needs some Yankee decor.
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We'll post some more Yankee stuff after they lose tonight.

I agree: STFU, Brewers.

New York Yankees' Randy Levine to Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio: Don't whine - ESPN New York

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

We'll post some more Yankee stuff after they lose tonight.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

I agree: STFU, Brewers.

New York Yankees' Randy Levine to Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio: Don't whine - ESPN New York

Ouch...

"I'm sorry that my friend Mark continues to whine about his running the Brewers," Levine told ESPNNewYork.com in a phone interview Tuesday morning. "We play by all the rules and there doesn't seem to be any complaints when teams such as the Brewers receive hundreds of millions of dollars that they get from us in revenue sharing the last few years. Take some of that money that you get from us and use that to sign your players.

"The question that should be asked is: Where has the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing gone?"

Originally Posted by min0 lee

What's that? I only see a red x. There is no Jeter World Series pic there.

Eff.

"You guys wait till [expletive] happens, then you can talk [expletive]. Two [expletive] games, and already you [expletives] are going crazy. What's up with that, man? [Expletive]. [Expletive] 160 games left. That's a [expletive]. One of you [expletives] got to go ahead and hit for me." -- David Ortiz



LOLZ

I can't blame him.

Apparently, after checking with my MLB insider sources, it would appear that Curtis Granderson is indeed a homosexual man.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

We'll post some more Yankee stuff after they lose tonight.

Ah, so that explains why you haven't posted any Yankee stuff the past couple of days.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

Apparently, after checking with my MLB insider sources, it would appear that Curtis Granderson is indeed a homosexual man.

LOL, He looks OK so far.
He has 2 homers against the beloved Papelsmear...I would say he's off to a good start in pinstripes.

Need a little steroid testing on Vernon Wells. 4 Jacks that is 1/3 of his output from last year.