Category: Fantasy Baseball (Page 30 of 48)

      Boras: Dodgers’ offer for Manny not long enough

      November 7, 2008 /

      The Los Angeles Dodgers have a $45 million offer on the table for Manny Ramirez, but apparently the contract it isn’t long enough for agent Scott Boras’s liking. The Dodgers are offering a 2-year deal, but Ramirez and Boras are seeking a 6-year contract.

      One of the two sources said the Dodgers presented agent Scott Boras with a back-loaded deal that would pay Ramirez $15 million in 2009, down from the $20 million he earned this year. Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti said Wednesday that the contract included an option year.

      Boras wouldn’t confirm the details of the proposed contract but wondered aloud why it didn’t include more years. He has said that Ramirez deserves a six-year deal.

      “There is evidence of major league teams giving a player that’s older a contract for five years,” Boras said.

      The reference was to the five-year deal the San Francisco Giants awarded Barry Bonds in 2002, when he was 37. Boras noted that he negotiated that contract with Colletti, who was the Giants’ assistant general manager at the time.

      Six years seems ridiculous given Manny’s age, but then again, it’s not like his production is declining. Nobody knows if he’ll continue to play at a high level in his late 30s, but he seems like a decent risk worth taking.

      Fantasy Baseball, MLB

      Trade “shares” of players at OneSeason.com

      November 6, 2008 /

      OneSeason.com has created a market where fans can buy and sell shares (with real money) of players in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. Supply and demand drive the price of each share, and value would theoretically rise as the player gets better. This would allow savvy fans to identify players that are about to break out and make a profit in the process.

      I actually had a similar idea several years ago, but I was never able to get my head around how the cycle for each player would end. A player’s stock would continue to be traded into his retirement, but other than a potential Hall of Fame induction, there is no more “potential” to speak of. When investors buy shares of a company in the stock market, they effectively own a piece of the company. And since all companies are (presumably) going to continue to be profitable into the future, there is only a small risk that the company goes out of business leaving the shareholder with nothing. At OneSeason, a player’s stock will be expected to fall as he tops out in his career. He no longer has “potential” and, assuming the number of total investors stays the same, his stock price will fall.

      So it seems to me that this market will be driven by young players that are rising stars. Once a player hits 27 or 28 years of age, he probably won’t improve his game/performance, so his share price would take a dump. Investors would start to notice this, so they would want to sell their shares earlier to avoid this decrease, so players would start to see a share price dip at 26 or even 25 years old.

      It’s an interesting idea, but without a continual increase in the number of investors, I don’t know how a player’s share will sustain its value through the end of his career and into his retirement. This virtual certainty of a loss in value would seem to play havoc with share valuations throughout his career, making the entire market a bad idea on the whole. I think people could make money in spots, but they would be capitalizing on the losses of fellow fans.

      Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Football, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL

      Yankees preparing to overspend for CC Sabathia

      November 6, 2008 /

      The New York Yankees are getting ready to offer CC Sabathia an exorbitant amount of money.

      CC SabathiaCiting two unnamed baseball executives, the New York Daily News is reporting the New York Yankees are preparing to make free agent left-hander C.C. Sabathia a ‘huge’ offer after Nov. 14. Sabathia has already been offered $100 million by the Milwaukee Brewers, who retain exclusive negotiating rights until Nov. 14.

      Two executives said Wednesday at the GM meetings that they believe Sabathia will wind up in New York, based solely on the expectation that the Bombers’ offer would easily exceed all others.

      Word has it that the Yankees are also prepared to deal for Jake Peavy of the Padres. The Bombers are also interested in Cole Hamels, Tim Lincecum, Cliff Lee, Brandon Webb, Johan Santana, Roy Halladay and are looking at the cost of digging up Cy Young.

      Fantasy Baseball, MLB

      Dodgers willing to pony up for Manny Ramirez

      November 6, 2008 /

      Manny RamirezThe Los Angeles Dodgers are willing to spend big to retain Manny Ramirez.

      General manager Ned Colletti said Wednesday the Dodgers’ pitch to the free-agent slugger would give him the second-highest average salary in the sport behind Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez.

      “If you saw the bid, it’s nothing that we’re embarrassed by,” Colletti said at the GM meetings. “Manny was close to that number, anyway — closer to that area than the last place he’s been.”

      Rodriguez currently has the top average at $27.5 million under the 10-year deal he agreed to before last season. Mets pitcher Johan Santana is second at $22.9 million under the six-season deal he agreed to this year.

      Ramirez, acquired from Boston on July 31, is coming off an eight-year, $160 million contract he signed with the Red Sox before the 2001 season.

      This is all well and good, but they’ll have to top whatever the Yankees offer. A couple of weeks ago, Ramirez flat out said that he wanted to see which team offered him the highest contract. If the Yankees concentrate on trying to sign ace CC Sabathia, there’s a great chance that Man-Ram will wind up back in Dodger blue. But if Sabathia re-ups with the Brewers or signs quickly with another team, I’m willing to bet the Yankees go full-blast for Ramirez.

      Fantasy Baseball, MLB

      Yankees target CC Sabathia, Manny Ramirez and Mark Teixeira

      November 5, 2008 /

      Jon Heyman of SI.com reports that the New York Yankees have made ace CC Sabathia their top winter target. And just for good measure, they’ll also have Manny Ramirez and Mark Teixeira on their radar this offseason, too.

      CC SabathiaThe incumbent Brewers extended to Sabathia a very respectable offer for about $100 million, and at least the Dodgers and Angels may also heavily compete for the Vallejo, Calif., native. But baseball people at the general manager meetings here see the Yankees as attempting to blow away the field for Sabathia. Santana’s record deal for a pitcher is over six years.

      Boosted by the new Yankee Stadium, revenues that are expected to skyrocket even in a flagging economy, the potential of about $80 million in player payroll coming off their books and driven by their first non-playoff season since before the Joe Torre era, the Yankees will also make plays for superstar first baseman Mark Teixeira and outfielder and hitting savant Manny Ramirez, a longtime Yankee killer (and in 2008 a Red Sox killer, as well), and haven’t ruled out signing one of those two sluggers along with Sabathia.

      If you hated the Yankees before, you’ll hate him even more this offseason. Not that it matters because it’s the Yankees and they can finically do whatever they want, but a word of warning to the Steinbrenner’s – watch your spending on top flight free agent pitching. Just to name a few: Barry Zito, Mike Hampton, Russ Ortiz, Kevin Brown, Jason Schmidt – all highly coveted free agent starting pitchers, all gigantic busts.

      Now maybe Sabathia is less of a risk considering he’s used to pitching in the AL, but signing him to one of the richest contract in baseball history has trouble written all over it. But again, not that it matters because the Yankees can do whatever they want when it comes to spending.

      Fantasy Baseball, MLB, Rumors & Gossip

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