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  • Cardinals take a Leake

    Reportedly a 5-year Leake. Might want to see a prostate specialist about that.

    ETA: 5 years, 75mil

    For the second time in less than a year, Mike Leake has found a new home, agreeing to terms with the St. Louis Cardinals ...

  • #2
    Originally posted by eldiablo505
    No idea why a league average pitcher gets insane money like that. Doesn't even have much upside, either. I guess reliability is worth $75M.
    It's Christmas and he is the last cabbage patch doll?

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    • #3
      This year seems to mark a significant shift toward paying more for pitching relative to hitting, it seems. That may, in fact, be appropriate based on team needs and supply/demand, but it should make some of these teams' fan bases nervous given the significant risk involved with pitchers.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by eldiablo505
        No idea why a league average pitcher gets insane money like that. Doesn't even have much upside, either. I guess reliability is worth $75M.
        See Brett Anderson.
        "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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        • #5
          A guy in our league once took a Leake and a Knapp in the same farmhand draft. a rival noted, "and that's the better order to do it in!"
          finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
          own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
          won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84

          SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
          RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
          C Stallings 2, Casali 1
          1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
          OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1

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          • #6
            Originally posted by eldiablo505
            Oh, right. Brett Anderson totally got $75 million. Good point.
            $15 mi!lion for one year is insane too. Just not as insane. A lesser level of insanity.
            "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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