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6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Roster Notes
FanHouse: Should CC Sign for $100 Million or $140 Million? It Goes Deeper Than Money.
Fire Ned Colletti Now: Around The Web: Boobs
River Avenue Blues: Did the Yanks offer Sabathia enough?
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com: Yankees "What If": No A.J., CC, Lowe?
Roster Notes
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
... , Jeff Sackmann at Brew Crew Ball relays an extensive analysis of why the Yankees' $140M offer and the Brewers' $100M offer aren't really that far apart. Cost of living, and especially, taxes will draw them closer. It's also possible that a shorter contract will, surprisingly, work in Sabathia's favor, because if he turns out to be the horse he's selling himself as, he'll have an opportunity to cash in again that much sooner, and for more real dollars. Bottom line, if the Dodgers are serious about making a bid for C.C., they might not have to outbid the Yankees ...
Should CC Sign for $100 Million or $140 Million? It Goes Deeper Than Money.
FanHouse —
... As always, though, there's more to things than the numbers. Jeff Sackmann at Brew Crew Ball breaks down the two offers and considers cost of living in New York and Milwaukee, as well as the effect of contract length on future earning potential and determines that the Yanks' offer might not be as great as people think. ...
Around The Web: Boobs
Fire Ned Colletti Now —
... Brew Crew Ball: A very original take on how the Brewers' 100 million dollar offer might not be all that much different from the Yankees' 140 million dollar offer. ...
Did the Yanks offer Sabathia enough?
River Avenue Blues —
... In an excellent piece of analysis earlier this week, Jeff Sackman at Brew Crew Ball examined how these two offers aren’t as different as the media would make them out to be. First, we have the issue of average annual value. The Brewers are reportedly offering $20 million a season while the Yanks’ contract comes in at $23.3 million. If Sabathia truly does enjoy the NL and Milwaukee, would a meager $3.3 million per season be enough to convince him to come to New York? ...
Yankees "What If": No A.J., CC, Lowe?
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... and Brew Crew Ball look at the "actual" disparity between the financial terms of the contracts offered to the big lefty by the Yankees and Brewers. I say "actual" because, as the articles admit, this type of information is hard to concretely determine. However, as the authors show, the actual difference may be alarmingly smaller than most might have thought. ...
