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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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5/50

and slightly backloaded, 11 and 12 mil the next 2 years.

the preceding post was a great success.

by DShep on Oct 27, 2009 8:31 PM CDT up reply actions  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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 MayurP on Oct 27, 2009 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions  

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  

Haha

So if GMJ suddenly wimps out, Vlad would still slice him.

by chrisR on Oct 28, 2009 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions  

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  

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  

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 LSJ on Oct 27, 2009 9:25 PM CDT reply actions  

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  

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 LSJ on Oct 27, 2009 9:56 PM CDT up reply actions  

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  

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 Cecilio's Guante on Oct 28, 2009 9:40 AM CDT reply actions  

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 octoberty on Oct 28, 2009 9:54 AM CDT reply actions  

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  

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  

Um....

Because they made a dumb move. Just like I can criticize the Rangers when they do something dumb.

by Big50 on Oct 29, 2009 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions  

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