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Yahoo! Sports: MLB - For Bagwell, it's not about the money
This really rubs me the wrong way. Bagwell is going to make $17m/year for five years and it is not about the money? While, yes he may have made more on the free agent market he is also removing any risk involved with a poor season in 2001. See Juan Gonzalez for how much that risk can actually cost you.
Second, Rosenthal acts as if Bagwell is worth as much as Alex Rodriguez or Manny Ramirez. He isn't. He is four years older than Ramirez and six more than Rodriguez. If anything, the Astros are overpaying him. When his next contract would have come up, he would be 34, and while I expect Bagwell to age gracefully, I don't expect him to be nearly as good at age 34-38 as he was from 29-33.
I'm still waiting for the article lauding Barry Bonds for not testing the free agent market while with the Giants.
And while I'm shooting scattershot without a thesis, I wonder where this leaves Daryle Ward or Lance Berkman, one of whom really should be traded.
Not every potential free agent pulls an Alex Rodriguez.
This really rubs me the wrong way. Bagwell is going to make $17m/year for five years and it is not about the money? While, yes he may have made more on the free agent market he is also removing any risk involved with a poor season in 2001. See Juan Gonzalez for how much that risk can actually cost you.
Second, Rosenthal acts as if Bagwell is worth as much as Alex Rodriguez or Manny Ramirez. He isn't. He is four years older than Ramirez and six more than Rodriguez. If anything, the Astros are overpaying him. When his next contract would have come up, he would be 34, and while I expect Bagwell to age gracefully, I don't expect him to be nearly as good at age 34-38 as he was from 29-33.
I'm still waiting for the article lauding Barry Bonds for not testing the free agent market while with the Giants.
And while I'm shooting scattershot without a thesis, I wonder where this leaves Daryle Ward or Lance Berkman, one of whom really should be traded.
posted by Sean Foran # 9:46 AM 
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