Juan Pierre to sign with the Dodgers

by ReLaunch on Nov 20, 2006 8:39 PM EST

I'm sorry, baseball is in a sorry state when players like Pierre are getting 45 million dollar contracts and Ted Lilly wants 9-10million a year. This should be the last year any of these teams or their fans complain about the Yankees spending

Free agent center fielder Juan Pierre has agreed to a five-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a source told ESPN.com on Monday. The deal is believed to be worth $44-45 million.

The deal will become complete when Pierre passes a physical exam, the source said.

Pierre, 29, is a .303 hitter over seven seasons with Colorado, Florida and the Chicago Cubs. He led the National League with 204 hits in 2006.

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Good Grief

And he's not even a good center fielder! He's worse leadoff hitter than Soriano!
I read an interesting piece a couple weeks ago about the death of free agency. Basically, the columnist argued that because clubs are locking up their star players sooner, buying out their first few free agent years by guaranteeing money in the arbitration years (see Pujols, David Wright, and Johan Santana), fixing a club through free agent signings is no longer possible.
This offseason seems to guarantee that; why would you ever let a guy Miguel Cabrera or Mark Prior sniff free agency before he turns 30? If he is chronically hurt it sucks, but its better to take that risk paying him $5 million/ year (about what Prior made last season) than to let him cost you $15 million because he stayed healthy.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

by jscape2000 on Nov 20, 2006 9:25 PM EST reply actions

Super bad signing

if it's true, the Dodgers just forfieted the NL West title for the next 5 year, i'm picking the Rockies over them next year if this is true.

by RollingWave on Nov 20, 2006 9:38 PM EST reply actions

Terrible

This actually may be worse than the Soriano move, but since the money is so much less, I think the Soriano barely wins out for worst move of the day. This is a terrible, terrible signing though.

It is kind of sad to see one of baseball's great franchises being run by morons. In that pathetic division, there is no reason that the Dodgers shouldn't dominate with their resources and that farm system. Yet, they fuck it up with moves like this.

Fear the Evil Empire

by pfistyunc on Nov 20, 2006 9:48 PM EST reply actions