Wishful Thinking
by Eric Stephen on Jan 16, 2012 7:38 AM PST
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PrintClayton Kershaw and his wife Ellen are promoting their book this week, Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself. Roberto Baly (and his baby boy!) of Vin Scully Is My Homeboy caught up with them at a book signing this weekend.
Kershaw and his wife are scheduled to meet with the media on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium. Just thinking out loud here, if Kershaw and the Dodgers were to agree to a multi-year contract extension, right around the time the two sides would file salary figures for arbitration, a Tuesday press conference would the perfect time to announce such a thing.
Maybe I'm just feeling optimistic on a Monday. But even if Kershaw doesn't join Matt Kemp in the long-term crew this year, there is still plenty of time to get a deal done, as Kershaw has three years before hitting free agency. I have to imagine that one of the top baseball priorities of whatever new ownership comes in on April 30 will be to lock up the ace.
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he should’ve gotten lester money, instead he’ll get verlander money. i don’t care either way, as long as his money is dodger blue.
here here!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 7:50 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
do a reverse trick
Take a stack of hundreds and wrap them in Monopoly 50s
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 7:58 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
she told me she would call you
I see she has not yet
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 8:04 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I am displeased
I’ll ask her about the name of the agency today.
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 8:07 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I do my best :)
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 8:12 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
quiet you! :)
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 9:08 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I'm such a fan of the Rays doing what they have done with their young players
It’s too bad we didn’t do something like one of those contracts with Kershaw.
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Of course it's crazy to do it for almost every player
The thing that sucks is Kershaw was clearly a pitcher that would have been worth rolling the dice of a multi million dollar contract early on.
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Career :)
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 8:30 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
but like, he’s 23 (?), if you gave him a 16 year, $300mil contract, it’s a HUGE risk, but if he stays healthy it’s a HUGE bargain. If he gets hurt, you’ve potentially crippled your club until 2030.
I know I know
I think Widow has the right idea
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by Tommy Blackjack on Jan 16, 2012 8:39 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I can’t see him signing anything longer than 5 or 6. That would still allow him to hit free agency before age 30. Works for everyone I think.
For Kershaw?
8 years, though 6 or 7 would make more sense. Honestly at that price it may not matter because it’s about keeping him here, not about getting any kind of a deal.
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It may be high risk
But the reward should be even higher. Injury risk is always on people’s mind for pitchers when talking extensions, but for a guy like this, we know we aren’t getting a Darren Driefort as far as both production and health, so minimum 5 years is great with me, though i’d like to see him for another couple years more than that personally (likely just for that specific contract, if things go right i’d want him back after).
If we have to roll the dice, i’m happy doing it on Kemp and Kershaw.
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and with pitchers
theres a ton of risk. And even more with young pitchers. Past history has not been kind to guys like Kershaw who dominated from an early age: a lot of them flamed out by 29-30. So not only do you have the risks inherent to pitchers, but the ones for young pitchers as well.
None of us wants to believe that will happen to Clayton, but the reality is its entirely possible. How do you build some sort of safety net around that possibility that both sides can agree on?
Julio Franco??
Too bad he’s still not around, lol. Wait, was he ever an all-star?
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Omar was first an all star in 1998. There was someone else also in 1998 who is still active. The site I saw said it was the other person, but Vizquel was the same year. I’m now doubting my source.
In the Kershaw arbitration thread
I suggested 6/$96M. Would people still consider this a bad off-season if we locked both Kemp and Kershaw up long term?
For the present, hell yes
For the future, no.
Ok
let me try to frame this question a little differently then.
Which would you take, scenario A or B
Scenario A:
Sellers starting 2B, Fielder signed to 8 year deal, Loney traded for scraps, Sands/Gwynn platoon in LF, Kuroda ($13M), Eovaldi 5th starter. With neither Kemp nor Kershaw signed to long term deals.
Scenario B:
What has happened so far with Kershaw extended for 6 years at some fair but pretty high amount.
NPUT
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