100% disagree. its market value due to the thin FA class. He is nowhere near worth the 4/52. He isnt good. you do NOT pay 13 million a year for a number 5 starter. Its about young pitching and pitchers under team control. There is zero to be positive.
Really? Soooo... Paying Anibal Sanchez $30 million more with an extra season would've been a better value? They both fill the same role -- a #3 starter who walks too many guys, and will never transform into a shutdown starter. He is what he is -- a guy who'll give you innings, throw erratically, occasionally dominate and make his start every fifth day. Unfortunately, if you want to pay for a starter who's proven he can stay healthy and flash some quality, it's going to cost you $10 million or more per season. Is the yearly salary a bit high for my taste? Sure it is. Would I have rather had Sanchez? I guess... but it all goes back to this -- would either guy put the team over the top? No. He's a fixture in the rotation now. The guy had been pitching on one-year deals mainly because he kept getting dealt to teams as a stopgap.
As for Xfactors comments....he was a worse pitcher in the NL before he came to the AL and the sox.
That necessarily isn't a bad thing. Hasn't the AL been the consensus 'better league' for the past 15 years? Wouldn't that suggest that he fared better against superior competition, based on this logic?
Also note that he has bounced around and is basically a misfit, a right handed liriano. anyone who thinks he is a number 3 or better on a good team is off their rocker.
None of us consider the Cubs a good team. He'll be our de-facto #3 starter, as we're one of the five worst teams in baseball. Still, I could think of worse options. You know, like anyone we had last season.
also comments about "oh the team is showing they will spend" is theo doing what he does, business....these comments from fans are what theo wants the fans to believe. this is a small investment to gain profit on a larger scale for ticket and merch revenue.
100% false. The Cubs have a guy who's proven he can eat innings on a contract that's respectable, all things considered. It's not the ridiculously immovable contract Zambrano had. Nor did we give a guy in his mid-30s a long-term deal. What this move shows, as well as subsequent moves, is that the Cubs are adding players to their roster to fill out glaring weaknesses without hamstringing to make larger, more impactful moves in the future, as their prospects mature and gain experience. The number one goal coming into this new management was to create a sustainable roster. Payroll is going to be well south of $100 million this year. They shown in the past that they're willing to spend money. In due time, that may happen. As of now, I'm perfectly content with filling out the roster and acquring assets. And let's be serious, do you think adding Edwin Jackson is going push people through the gates? Come on, man.....
