lethal wrote:I'm sure 1 year of Trout is worth quite a lot, but I don't know about 80M. If you signed one player and that guaranteed that you'd win the World Series that year, what's the increase in revenue? If you increase attendance by 10K per game, that's 800K a year, at $50 per person, that's $40M.

Werthless wrote:Sidebar, only tangentially related to Hamels:

I am convinced that mediocrity is overvalued by the sabermetrically inclined baseball establishment. A 4 WAR player is worth more than 2x as much as a 2 WAR player, and 2 WAR player is worth more than 2x a 1 WAR player.

If a 10 WAR player like Mike Trout became available as a free agent, today, he would be worth 80MM on a 1 year deal. If any of these superstars would stop selling themselves short and take shorter deals, they might be surprised what kind of deals they could get on a year-to-year basis. How risk averse should you be if you've already made $50MM?

Look at what the White Sox are throwing money at.... They just spent all that money for less than 10WAR. I can't imagine what Detroit would spend on Trout on a 1 year deal.

BigEd76 wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Chase Utley will appear on the Ellen show at 3

Thanks Amaro

Bill McNeal wrote:Breathlessly waiting for Ed's recap.

http://ellentube.com/videos/0-ay5qfykf/

He invited her to as many games as she wants next season. [insert inappropriate joke here]

A great gesture by Utley and the Phillies, right?

WPHT 1210 AM's morning host Chris Stigall didn't think so.

Tuesday, Stigall talked on his show about Monday's appearance by Utley and noted that the second baseman may not even be with the Phillies at the start of the 2015 season.


"You know Chase Utley's probably not even going to be around to take the cancer patient to the games," said Stigall. "It's a nice invite, but he won't even be there."

OK, maybe Stigall is just trying to be a realist, but I'm sure even if Utley is traded during the offseason, the Phillies would still stand good on the invite to all the games.

Stigall didn't stop there, though. His next comments crossed the line of human decency.

"Plus, it's probably terminal what that woman has. You think she's going to live through an entire season?"