March 07, 2007
Concise
Great headline here summing up Javier Vazquez's day.
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Posted by David Pinto at
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As you read the article about Mr Vasquez, you really see what is so wrong with current major league baseball. Vasquz has been a major league pitcher for 9 years. He is 100-105. That says that he is an average to mediocre big league pitcher. There are probably 50 kids in AAA ball who could pitch as poorly in the big leagues for the major league minimum this year. Yet, he not only will get $12.5 million this year, now he is guaranteed $11.5 million per year for three more years. Does anyone doubt that at the end of that four year period he will be no better than about 140-150? The problem with major league baseball saleries is not that superstars make $20 million a year. It is that mediocre players like Vasquez make $11.5 million.
Wins & Losses aren't the best barometer for how good or bad a pitcher is. Vazquez pitched for some bad Expos teams and a bad D'Backs team. And he's not mediocre.
I like the deal. He's durable, almost 4-1 K/BB and career WHIP around 1.25. He's only 30 years old. I'll concede that the money is insane. But given the market, the Sox actually got a decent deal.