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Originally Posted by kutulu
Yes and even though I'm not a Dodger fan I thought all of those were great ideas. Especially Beltre and Green (although they gave my DBacks way too much cash for Green and the signing of Drew was questionable in my book).
I'm glad to see Gagne should be 100% next year, all year. It will be great to see if the DBacks can continue to be virtually the only team that gets him to blow saves.
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Beltre wasn't on purpose, they were surprised and dissappointed to see him go. In retrospect, sure it was a good idea, but at the time, they just lost their best player via free agency. Regardless, my statement about losing all those players was in response goddfather40's statement about Gagne's popularity in LA, as all those players were fairly popular among the L.A. contigency.
You didn't comment on the main idea of my post, the fact that Gagne was drastically underpaid up through his Cy Young year. It may be uncommon to spend (what some may consider) a little much for a great player to remain with a team after that player has produced wonderfully in the past, but I think it is very fair and decent.
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The Dodgers gave him a 2yr $19M contract with a $12M option for 2007 and a $1M option. I don't care how good he is when he comes back, they'd be fools to pay $12M to ANY closer. I figure he gets a max of around 30 innings next season so with the 13 he's pitched they will pay him a total of $20M for 33 innings ($465,000 per inning).
Teams should never pay that much for a closer. There are so many other options available and the risk is too great.
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I think you meant 1 million dollar buyout for 2007. Fools to pay 12 million? If Gagne closed out the clinching game in the World Series in 2006, I think they would happily pay Gagne 12 million to comeback. It is fair of me to speculate that he could help them win the World Series in 2006 as it is of you to calculate the price they pay per inning in the long run (after he goes down with an injury this year, obviously skewing that number in a negative way). Bottom line, he has proven to be the best closer in the Majors the last two years, and this coming from a Braves fan who would prefer to side with Smoltz if it was a stalemate. This is MLB, where salaries are outrageous. You won't be able to convince me that L.A. overpaid for a great player like Gagne after he earned less than a million and won the Cy Young Award for them a couple years back.