Friday, February 15, 2008

Are we about to get Boozered again?

Well it was in this morning's paper that CC Sabathia made a statement that he is tabling the negotiations for a new contract with the Indians until after the season. I do respect the fact that he would like to focus on baseball and not the contract and with Spring Training starting it is time he shift his focus on the season. However, doesn't he have an agent to deal with that. Hasn't he said to his agent here is what I am looking for - between $100-$150 million for 5 years - obviously the more money/years the better for "security" - and then leave it to the agent and team to hash out the rest? I guess not.

Why do I feel like CC is pulling Jim Thome or Carlos Boozer saying one thing and his intentions the whole time are to do another. I hate the business side of baseball sometimes - especially when it seems like we always get the short end of the stick. I guess we'll just have to watch and enjoy CC's farewell tour.

2 comments:

  1. Remember, CC called Cleveland his 'second home'. Which means he has a first home. Which isn't Cleveland. And if you already have a second home, perhaps you are open to the idea of making a third location home as well.

    As long as he doesn't say he wants to spend the rest of his career in and Indians uniform and look at his wife as a "rock", we might be OK.

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  2. CC is worth twice as much as Barry Zito. Look what Zito is making. When Zito was really good, CC was still worth 1.5 times as much.

    To win big with a payroll of less than $110 million or so, a team has to make every right decision and offering a long term deal to a proven veteran player is one of the toughest decisions to make.

    It would serve no purpose for CC to say during spring training, "This is my last year, 'cause y'all can't afford me."

    If that is the case though, the Indians need to know at what point is the best point to deal. If you can't keep him, do you deal him?

    Maybe Tribe fans and Twins fans can get together and commiserate over a beer.

    Robby

    PS I forgot how to log in as a real blogger.

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