The Offseason- Pitching Market
The Pitching Market this offseason is arguably the best market ever. You have names like, Kershaw, Verlander, Hernandez, Romero, Morrow and Cueto. The list just keeps going on and on. Now normally, we would just stand pat with what we have. But we can't miss out on a market like this. It's just too good.
There you get a good glimpse of what Oppenheimer has to work with this season. Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay followed by Hanson and Medlen then you get into prospect territory. Now at first glance there's some good talent. But, upon further examination, you will notice. That our two best are 36 and 37. That's not going to fly. We need to get younger and younger we will get. Which is why we made the largest free agent contract signing ever in the McGovern era.
That's right, Clayton F'n Kershaw. We literally dropped the bank on him here. He was the youngest out there on the market that we just had to drop a couple stacks on him. Now originally, we had a 5 year 70 million offer on the table for him but then other teams jumped in and were offering less years for more annually. We gave him the best of both words and he signed with us giving us a rotation of:
Cliff Lee
Roy Halladay
Clayton Kershaw
Tommy Hanson
Kris Medlen
That is a darn good rotation and we would be content with that. Well, until things started swinging the other way in the league...