Gonzalez and Teixeira, good comparisons...

Unfortunately, greedy baseball players are often left unsatisfied when the greedy Yankees are not involved...

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Statistically they are very, very close.

But I agree with the article that A-Gon won’t get Tex money.

by theodore donald kerabatsos on Mar 3, 2010 11:17 AM PST reply actions

At some point

We should consider that Teixeira doesn’t deserve Teixeira money, let alone Adrian.

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by R. Lankford on Mar 3, 2010 11:42 AM PST up reply actions

That's a really good point.

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by TheThinGwynn on Mar 3, 2010 12:27 PM PST up reply actions

id prefer that money be in the players pockets

and not the owners.

I agree the money is nuts, but Teix and Adrian deserve all that they can get.
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by wrveres on Mar 4, 2010 1:36 AM PST up reply actions

There have been plenty

of top dollar contracts that didn’t involve the Yankees in the bidding.

If any combination of the Red Sox, Mets, White Sox, Angels, etc pursue him, AG will get top dollar.

by strummer on Mar 3, 2010 11:17 AM PST reply actions

Yeah, he'll get top dollar...

But the Yankees pay top dollar and then some.

I think Adrian will get somewhere between $120m-$140m. Definitely top dollar, and certainly fair, but not as much as Tex’s ridiculous 8/$180m.

by theodore donald kerabatsos on Mar 3, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions

Seriously

All those teams have money to throw around, but how many times have they gotten a player that the Yankees were also bidding on?

It’s not like Teixeira didn’t have offers from the Angels and Red Sox on the table.

Also, I’m not sure I can think of a situation where the White Sox actually offered a free agent top dollar. Almost all their high salary players in recent times were either guys they re-signed or traded for. I can’t even think of one player they signed as a free agent that got a contract worth $10 million/year or more.

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by Wonko on Mar 3, 2010 11:54 AM PST up reply actions

I can't think of a player Texas offered top dollar to either,

Except for ARod, who they went and signed to the largest contract ever in 2001.

by strummer on Mar 3, 2010 12:17 PM PST up reply actions

That's great

But I was just pointing out that you included the White Sox as part of the teams that would give AG top dollar. I’m saying there is no evidence of that. You did not specifically say Texas in your list, so I’m not sure what your point is. They’d almost be better to include though than the White Sox since in addition to ARod they gave out high dollar contracts to Kevin Millwood, Chan Ho Park and Vicente Padilla.

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by Wonko on Mar 3, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions

Alright, scratch the White Sox if it makes you happy.

Instead, the Mets, Red Sox and Angels could bid for AG.

It is still the same point.

by strummer on Mar 3, 2010 12:48 PM PST up reply actions

Cubs would have made more sense.

I never said it changed your point.

I was more in awe of how the White Sox don’t acquire free agents, but yet have a high payroll and multiple highly paid players.

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by Wonko on Mar 3, 2010 1:21 PM PST up reply actions