The stress of exams has kept me from posting, but I saw this and figured it was worth putting up here. He might be able to play for a few teams in France; they do love the bunt. As someone mentioned in a reply to last week’s post, the Gil Meche contract has truly set […]
The stress of exams has kept me from posting, but I saw this and figured it was worth putting up here. He might be able to play for a few teams in France; they do love the bunt.
As someone mentioned in a reply to last week’s post, the Gil Meche contract has truly set the bar for ill-advised spending by a general manager. How you could justify $11 million a year for a pitcher who
a) has never been healthy enough to pitch 200 innings in a year,
b) has never thrown over 100 innings at above league-average ERA+, and
c) got demoted to AAA as recently as 2004, and
d) has had a shoulder surgery?
Oh, wait. Make that two shoulder surgeries.
If Gil Meche, the definition of mediocrity, is worth $55 million over 5 years, then the value of a, you know, good pitcher is enough to get a mid-cap listing on the Nasdaq.
The mind reels.