Teams (except O's) keep saying not in on Cobb.

[atomic]

1 hour ago, backwardsk said:

Palmer tweets that Cobb is looking for 4/68.  Do you do that?

Well if that is the case Orioles should have given Lynn 2/24.  The Orioles have painted themselves into a corner by waiting for Cobb. 

[weams]

7 hours ago, Frobby said:

It’s certainly long enough where I wouldn’t worry about giving Cobb a three-year deal.   

I agree here. 

[weams]

4 minutes ago, atomic said:

Well if that is the case Orioles should have given Lynn 2/24.  The Orioles have painted themselves into a corner by waiting for Cobb. 

Why would Cobb take 2/24? Do you know that the Orioles were not more than that for both two and three seasons?

[25 Nuggets]

3/45.  Does Cobb take that now?

35 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

I'd go 3/50 M, but no more, in this market.

Or that.  Gordo and I are in the same boat.  Assuming the Orioles won't go 4 years.

[Frobby]

So, here’s the market so far for top starting pitchers:

Darvish 6/$126 mm

Arietta 3/$75 mm (with opt out and options)

Chatwood 3/$38 mm

Cashner 2/$16 mm (incentives could make it 3/$41 mm)

Vargas 2/$16 mm ($8 mm option, $2 mm buyout included in the $16 mm)

Chacin 2/$15.5 mm

Mikolas 2/15.5 mm

Lynn 1/$12 mm

Sabathia 1/$10 mm

Garcia 1/$10 mm

I don’t see Cobb getting 4/$68 mm.

[Frobby]

By the way, Chatwood’s agent is looking pretty good here.    

[mdbdotcom]

If Cobb is negotiating with the O's, his price might have gone up today after Tillman's start. "Want me to save your season? Pay me, boys, pay me."

[tntoriole]

3 minutes ago, mdbdotcom said:

If Cobb is negotiating with the O's, his price might have gone up today after Tillman's start. "Want me to save your season? Pay me, boys, pay me."

I think I liked baseball better when the players were slaves.  lol.   All this interminable negotiating and the lawyer agents drive me bonkers.     Just pick a daggone team and get on with it, for God's sake.  

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

I think I liked baseball better when the players were slaves.  lol.   All this interminable negotiating and the lawyer agents drive me bonkers.     Just pick a daggone team and get on with it, for God's sake.  

Not slaves really, I mean they were free to quit and go back to the farm.  Heck that's a better deal than serfs and indentured servants get.

[Rene88]

36 minutes ago, Frobby said:

So, here’s the market so far for top starting pitchers:

Darvish 6/$126 mm

Arietta 3/$75 mm (with opt out and options)

Chatwood 3/$38 mm

Cashner 2/$16 mm (incentives could make it 3/$41 mm)

Vargas 2/$16 mm ($8 mm option, $2 mm buyout included in the $16 mm)

Chacin 2/$15.5 mm

Mikolas 2/15.5 mm

Lynn 1/$12 mm

Sabathia 1/$10 mm

Garcia 1/$10 mm

I don’t see Cobb getting 4/$68 mm.

Jake could make $130 million:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynemcdonnell/2018/03/12/creativity-and-patience-lead-the-phillies-to-jake-arrieta/

Hearing they are going to get Cobb too, they have $$$ to burn so he could possibly get more than that.

[tntoriole]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Not slaves really, I mean they were free to quit and go back to the farm.  Heck that's a better deal than serfs and indentured servants get.

I was just being dramatic...lol.    Babe Ruth made more than President Hoover...but then he had a better year.   

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

I was just being dramatic...lol.    Babe Ruth made more than President Hoover...but then he had a better year.   

I wasn't taking you seriously.  I was just riffing away.

[weams]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

So, here’s the market so far for top starting pitchers:

Darvish 6/$126 mm

Arietta 3/$75 mm (with opt out and options)

Chatwood 3/$38 mm

Cashner 2/$16 mm (incentives could make it 3/$41 mm)

Vargas 2/$16 mm ($8 mm option, $2 mm buyout included in the $16 mm)

Chacin 2/$15.5 mm

Mikolas 2/15.5 mm

Lynn 1/$12 mm

Sabathia 1/$10 mm

Garcia 1/$10 mm

I don’t see Cobb getting 4/$68 mm.

He sounds Chatwoodian to me. 

[tntoriole]

46 minutes ago, Rene88 said:

Jake could make $130 million:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynemcdonnell/2018/03/12/creativity-and-patience-lead-the-phillies-to-jake-arrieta/

Hearing they are going to get Cobb too, they have $$$ to burn so he could possibly get more than that.

Turns out it was Tommy Hunter who snagged Jake...lol. 

There is a part of me that hopes the old Oriole group of AM and Klentak and Hunter and Jake all fall right on their faces.  Plus I don’t like the Phillies or Philadelphia fans. 

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/pro_sports/sports-briefs-hunter-makes-his-pitch-helps-phillies-land-jake/article_9991baa8-adea-5c0a-8b89-0490c240f33d.html

[sportsfan8703]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

So, here’s the market so far for top starting pitchers:

Darvish 6/$126 mm

Arietta 3/$75 mm (with opt out and options)

Chatwood 3/$38 mm

Cashner 2/$16 mm (incentives could make it 3/$41 mm)

Vargas 2/$16 mm ($8 mm option, $2 mm buyout included in the $16 mm)

Chacin 2/$15.5 mm

Mikolas 2/15.5 mm

Lynn 1/$12 mm

Sabathia 1/$10 mm

Garcia 1/$10 mm

I don’t see Cobb getting 4/$68 mm.

Arrieta 3/75

Cobb 3/??? (45 seems about right)

Chatwood 3/38