December 31, 2006

Happy New Year!


Best wishes to all of you for 2007!

4 comments:

s1c said...

Hoping that 2007 is better than 2006 for you and yours.

Anonymous said...

Sifting through the print and electronic media this morning for my daily seamhead fix and came across an interesting story in the NY Times (aka, Pravda) by Murray Chass on long-term contracts for pitchers.

Yes, yes, I know many among you will howl in disdain at seeing the words "interesting" and "Murray Chass" used in the same space. However, he offers some excellent analysis on some of the more notable big-FA, big contract deals (i.e., Hampton, Nagle, Brown, Martinez, et al), and how most all of these deals have left smoking holes in the wallets of the owners who have been unable to save themselves from themselves...

Within the context of the latest monumental brain fart by an owner in this category (Zito & SF), consider the following nugget of information:

"And then there was Wayne Garland, a more remote but nonetheless relevant example. A 20-game winner with Baltimore in 1976, his fourth season in the majors, Garland, two years from 28, was in the first class of free agents. Cleveland signed him to a stunning 10-year contract for $2.3 million, a lot of money then."

10 years? $230K per? If another passing year wasn't enough to remind me how old I am, this little data point confirmed it. For a link to the story, copy/paste the following:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/sports/baseball/02chass.html?ref=baseball

Peter N said...

A little late, but happy happy to you too!!!

9casey said...

When the 2007 basball season ends ..what would you say we could see from DP.