Over the first three seasons of his contract with Anaheim, Matthews has been worth -$5.3 million in salary. That minus sign is not a typo. Given his performance relative to the value that could have been found by playing any random Triple-A guy instead, Matthews owes the Angels $5.3 million for taking wins off the board.
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Isn't he like a 10 mill per year player?
by jam0152 on Oct 27, 2009 8:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Dumb question but does that -$5.3 MM take into account playing time?
Regardless, that was one dumb contract. Maybe the Angels are the new Yankees – they can sign a Pavano and not really miss a step.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
by WyoRanger on Oct 27, 2009 8:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Athough at least Pavano had the decency to get injured and not take up a spot
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
by WyoRanger on Oct 27, 2009 8:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes.
The “replacement” column in WAR is playing time.
Note that Dave made a typo — GMJ has actually been “worth” -$6.3M.
by jwiscarson on Oct 28, 2009 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
My favorite comment
Was this one: “The Royals need a centerfielder. Dayton Moore is an idiot. Need I explain further?”
"we’re a bunch of knee-jerking yahoos who like new and shiny things." -- FirebatM3 July 10, 2009
by Oddibee on Oct 27, 2009 8:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Frank Wren and Dayton Moore
Somewhere out there, John Schuerholz (sic?) is strangling a kitty
by chrisR on Oct 27, 2009 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Given his performance relative to the value that could have been found by playing any random Triple-A guy instead, Matthews owes the Angels $5.3 million for taking wins off the board.
Wouldn’t he actually owe them the $5.3M + the $25M he has collected in salary?
Favorite bumper sticker of all time, seen on a VW bus:
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody rides for free"
by tricer on Oct 27, 2009 8:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
That's what I was thinking
He should just commit seppuku.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Oct 27, 2009 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Buck Schowalter
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
by hinduplaya on Oct 27, 2009 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It'd have to be someone
with real good bat control, maybe Vlad.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Oct 28, 2009 10:24 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn it
When I read this post I was going to respond with that and got busy.
by bdavison94 on Oct 28, 2009 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Someone tell Jim Reeves
From his April 2007 column (thanks to AJM for clipping this previously):
“Tom Hicks flew in here from Liverpool, England, on Monday, presumably with the $10 million he saved by not re-signing Gary Matthews Jr. this past off-season jingling around in his pocket with a few extra British pounds in his loose change.
What the Angels got for their $10 million was Matthews’ usual spectacular defense in center field and a three-game sweep of the Rangers to open the season.
I’ll let you figure out who got the best end of the deal.
- * *
Suddenly, the $50 million the Angels will pay Matthews over the next five years doesn’t seem quite so extravagant."
by JPenn on Oct 27, 2009 9:00 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
He was also
- steriods
That's why they call them business sox
by egriffey on Oct 27, 2009 9:07 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The sad thing is, I have to disagree with Cameron on GMJ's future playing time
Somebody like the Royals, White Sox or Reds will probably pick him up and give him 100+ games. He just won’t be making no 10 million per year ever again…
"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN
by lonestarJon on Oct 27, 2009 9:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Uhh
He’s still owed $23M over the next two years…
This is the Texas Rangers, professional destroyers of hope, we're talking about. - BAC
by nikpin on Oct 27, 2009 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, by the Angels anyway.
"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN
by lonestarJon on Oct 27, 2009 9:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
sounds like the kind of guy the Cubs might be interested in...
by MikeEl on Oct 27, 2009 10:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe a swap
Milton for GMJ!
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
by NYTXFAN on Oct 28, 2009 12:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
declining players and bad contracts are hard to stomach
let’s hope we don’t make that mistake with Byrd.
let Byrd fly far away, far away from here.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
by NothinG on Oct 28, 2009 1:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
in other news,
sky is blue
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Oct 28, 2009 8:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
GMJ
The reason every player should do steroids.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Ryin A on Oct 28, 2009 9:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
x
“I don’t expect to be back; it’s time to move on,” said the outfielder. “I’m ready to play for an organization that wants me to play every day. This organization has other plans, and that’s OK.” -GMJ
by tyd3311 on Oct 28, 2009 9:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Why are Ranger fans criticizing Angel management?
They’ve made the playoffs all three years GMJ has been with the Angels.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Oct 28, 2009 1:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
And clearly that's because of GMJ...
you really are that dumb aren’t you?
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on Oct 28, 2009 7:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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