wow
wow
crazycakes.
I actually thought he would get more.
The mega market teams will make it so no one other than they can afford to play pretty soon. Yankees, Bsox, Phillies, Dodgers etc are all pricing everyone else out of the game.
I wish our owner knew what baseball was.
NinersSBChamps (01-17-2014)
Pretty much why i dont care much for baseball, can buy a championship.
30 million a year for a player that will start 30 times. Ridiculous. Trout's mouth just started to water. He's gonna be the first 40 million a year player I bet.
This contract is guaranteed to be a problem by year 4. (JMHO)
he can opt out at age 30Originally Posted by mfree80
If he has Tommy John at any point they're screwed. I mean not screwed in the traditional sense bc they basically mint their own money but screwed in the sense that they'll be wasting 30 million dollars. That's 30 million down the toilet for the year he misses plus however much time he's ineffective regaining his form the following year.
He makes more then the entire Astros last year.
He'll be 29 by then.
I dont believe it will be but 30 million for a pitcher, albeit the best one in baseball is insane.
I know Kershaw is arguably the best pitcher in MLB, but this contract is crazy. If he gets hurt, that's going to really HURT the Dodgers. Elbow ligaments can go at any time. If I was a Dodgers fan, this contract would scare me.
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It's the not the money so much as the years. I wouldn't give any pitcher a 7 year contract.
Injury is the biggest risk. We have seen the Dodgers burned here before in this regard: Kevin Brown and Darren Dreifort. Ironically, both pitchers' insane contracts were among the last before MLB began self-correcting its inflated pacts, which is where I think baseball is headed now (quite slowly, but inevitably).
That being said, they had to lock Kershaw up ... and there are few better players to spend $30MM on per season.
When does it stop? Hank Aaron made 2.1 million in 22 years of play. The average salary is 3.5 million per year. As long as the owners pay, the players will take the contracts. But, how far will this go?
Comes to a million bucks per start. More than many people make in their entire lifetimes. Absolutely ludicrous.
if he makes 30 starts
and pitches 110 pitches in all 30 starts
everytime he throws the ball to his catcher
he will make $9,400
Dodgers got a steal.
thethe (01-15-2014)
But he's throwing those warm-up tosses for free: that's where your bargain resides.
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