Breaking: DD has interest in Hammel

[El Gordo]

6 hours ago, Yardball85 said:

Hammel and trade Ubaldo and Drake for Granderson?

We can dream, right.

Do people have cartoon dreams?

[wildcard]

4 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

The signing team might lose a third round pick.  That doesn't mean the losing team only gets a third.  They still get a sandwich pick between the first and second rounds.

Unless of course you think that Tillman won't make 50 million. (end of second round)

Or that the O's will be over the luxury tax threshold. (after the fourth round)

I guess I didn't understand the new CBA as well as I thought I did.   Your comments made be go read it again.  I understand a little more but still need to read more.

However, I still question if getting draft choice(s) and waiting two to four years for them to mature is good enough for a player like Tillman.   The O's may need to trade him this off season if they can't sign him.

[WEAVERMAN]

23 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I am looking at the pitchers on the market and judging by what is out there, it seems to me that he's going to get a decent payday.

 

You can easily over pay for someone like Hammel, don't over pay Orioles.

[mskrulz]

15 minutes ago, WEAVERMAN said:

You can easily over pay for someone like Hammel, don't over pay Orioles.

Just a question. What do you consider an overpay?

[25 Nuggets]

19 minutes ago, mskrulz said:

Just a question. What do you consider an overpay?

Tim Dierkes predicts a 3 yr, $42 mil deal for Hammel.

[LA2]

1 hour ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Tim Dierkes predicts a 3 yr, $42 mil deal for Hammel.

He'll be 37 years old in September of that third year. The Cubs let him go despite a $9 mil contract (during each of his first two years--Don't know what his third-year salary would have been; they took the buyout at $2 mil).

[Rene88]

1 hour ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Tim Dierkes predicts a 3 yr, $42 mil deal for Hammel.

LOL-well then someone else can have him:)

[weams]

24 minutes ago, LA2 said:

He'll be 37 years old in September of that third year. The Cubs let him go despite a $9 mil contract (during each of his first two years--Don't know what his third-year salary would have been; they took the buyout at $2 mil).

Club option was valued at $10MM. 

So they passed on him for one year / 8 million essentially. 

[MDtransplant757]

1 hour ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Tim Dierkes predicts a 3 yr, $42 mil deal for Hammel.

 

 

[Number5]

1 hour ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Tim Dierkes predicts a 3 yr, $42 mil deal for Hammel.

I think he was trying to account for the limited free agent pitching depth this off-season and overdid it.  I doubt if Dierkes would still peg Hammel for that kind of contract.

[weams]

2 minutes ago, Number5 said:

I think he was trying to account for the limited free agent pitching depth this off-season and overdid it.  I doubt if Dierkes would still peg Hammel for that kind of contract.

 I bet Hammel does not exceed 2/24.

[sportsfan8703]

Wasn't Hammel a guy we were happy to get rid of his contract 2 years ago?  So why would we want another potential Gallardo, Miley and Ubaldo type situation?

We can probably bring in a guy like Norris or Feldman on a milb deal with a ST invite.  

[Redskins Rick]

Why do we need Hamel, at this point?

 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Redskins Rick said:

Why do we need Hamel, at this point?

 

Pretty good chance the O's would win more games with him in the rotation than Ubaldo.

[Redskins Rick]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Pretty good chance the O's would win more games with him in the rotation than Ubaldo.

Im still trying to figure out, why the Cubs turned him lose and brought him out, his contract wasn't that big, compared to what SP gets.