Note, 4:19pm: Dave has authored an updated version of this post, available here.
Note: This post was edited at 1:45pm to reflect updated contract information about Lee’s deal with the Phillies. We initially heard that the overall package for Lee was worth $147.5 [...]
As Dave Cameron noted at Fangraphs, the Phillies’ new top four of -Cliff Lee-- may have a case for greatest of all time.
Check out these eye-popping numbers:
The Phillies’ 2011 top four starters combined for [...]
For just the second time in the last two decades, a premier free agent pitcher has spurned the Yankees for less money elsewhere.
In the biggest offseason shocker since the Yankees’ signing two Decembers ago and perhaps one of the biggest surprises in baseball history, Cliff [...]
(The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog. For a revised analysis based on updated contract terms, click here.)
probably wanted to return to Philadelphia all along, but he did not leave a lot of money on the table to do so. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, the five-year, [...]
The news broke late last night, the mystery team was real after all and it proved to be the Phillies. There were reports that Cliff Lee let it be known in recent days that his first preference would a return to Philadelphia, and the two sides worked out an agreement for 5 [...]
Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus recently published a piece (subs required) where he posits something that I know many Yankee fans have been ruminating about in recent days, myself included. The money and years in the Cliff Lee sweepstakes have reached a point where the team that loses the bidding will ultimately be better off. [...]
It’s a cold, rainy day here in New York, and in the Yankee universe (ahem) all anybody wants to talk about is the waiting game for Cliff Lee. I’ve weighed in here numerous times, as have most of my fellow writers. So I thought it would be a good time to open things up to [...]
As we continue to wait on , my confidence that he’s coming to the Yankees was emboldened by Jon Heyman’s and Tom Verducci’s latest columns for SI.com. Heyman writes (emphasis mine):
“In the race for free agent left-hander , people familiar with [...]
(The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog).
In an effort to evaluate whether the Yankees and Rangers are setting themselves up for a fall by offering a long-term contract to Cliff Lee, many have invoked similar deals that were given to the likes of ,
We’ve mostly stayed away from discussing Cliff Lee this week due primarily to the fact that there really hasn’t been a ton to comment on outside of a plethora of rumors, hearsay and conjecture. The Winter Meetings started, but nothing happened on Monday. Word got out that more [...]
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