I wonder if this will give him a kick in the ass. Boston papers reported that he told Theo to put him on waivers and guaranteed the Yankees would pick him up.
Transmogrifier wrote:I wonder if this will give him a kick in the ass. Boston papers reported that he told Theo to put him on waivers and guaranteed the Yankees would pick him up.
Embarrasing that no one did, wouldn't you say?
well, i am sure if he was getting like 10 million a year, then teams would have tried to pick him up.
Madison wrote:I have to admit that I'm surprised by it. No one picked him up. I understood the reasons to, and the reasons not, but I really figured someone would jump at the opportunity.
I'm amazed that you thought that.
That's a LOT of dough.
It's a lot of money, but just look at the numbers. I mean they are almost guaranteed every year. I'm not a big fan of Manny's, but I do respect what he can and does at the plate.
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Transmogrifier wrote:I wonder if this will give him a kick in the ass. Boston papers reported that he told Theo to put him on waivers and guaranteed the Yankees would pick him up.
Embarrasing that no one did, wouldn't you say?
well, i am sure if he was getting like 10 million a year, then teams would have tried to pick him up.
If Manny was making $10 mil a year, the Red Sox wouldn't have put him on waivers.
Great move by Theo. Calling Manny's bluff like that ...
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ramble2 wrote:If Manny was making $10 mil a year, the Red Sox wouldn't have put him on waivers.
Good point.
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Transmogrifier wrote:Agreed. Defense is not accurately measured. I mean, Manny has a decent fielding percentage, too. But how many times has he misread balls? His defense is horrid; just watch him play a full season. It's embarrasing.
Agreed. I mean Palmiero won a Gold Glove a few years ago playing like 30 games at first base.
Bill James has written about this. It was a statistical fluke, a remnant of the voting system. I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with vote-splitting, blah blah blah.
Gold gloves are voted by the mgrs who put no time or thought in it.
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