Dodgers sign Manny

by Robert on Mar 3, 2009 5:59 PM PST Comment 64 comments

After multiple failed attempts, Ramirez and the Dodgers agreed to a two-year, $45 million deal on Tuesday.

...The outfielder is expected to travel to Los Angeles tonight. Ramirez would then report to the Dodgers' spring training camp in Ranch Camel.

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So, it's the same damn contract both sides rejected?

I was looking forward to the Dodgers getting wise and start dropping their offer.

by Matthew on Mar 3, 2009 6:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I don't get it, is Manny even worth this much?

by Fin on Mar 3, 2009 9:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Not really

especially not in this market.

by Jeff on Mar 3, 2009 9:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Even assuming the market for his skill set hadn't tanked,

he’d need to be a 4- to 5-win player for the next two years. It’s not out of the question, but I’m not putting my money on it.

by Teej on Mar 3, 2009 10:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

If Fenway really has affected his defense

than he might be able to sustain 4-5 WAR a year. Also, and I hate to say this, he really will bring in a more ticket sales.

vivaelbeñsheets

by vivaelpujols on Mar 3, 2009 10:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

PR-wise, it's a big move for the Dodgers

but talk about your clusterfuck negotiations.

by Jeff on Mar 3, 2009 10:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

How the fuck Manny didn't have a market

after the season he put up is puzzling.

Guess it’s a bad idea to be a grade a douchenozzle.

by JI on Mar 3, 2009 10:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That's the hilarious part to me.

Supposedly, many teams were concerned about handing Manny a big long term deal because they’re wary of his antics. So what negotiating tactic does Scott Boras employ? One that makes Manny look like a jitterbug.

by Matthew on Mar 3, 2009 10:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe it would have been different had the Yankees missed on Teixeria

by JI on Mar 3, 2009 10:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I think that Boras' tactic

was to make the Dodgers believe that the only way that Manny wouldn’t be a bitch is if he was got the deal that he wanted. That would explain why they were seemingly bidding against themselves.

vivaelbeñsheets

by vivaelpujols on Mar 4, 2009 8:29 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Yup.

Once again, kudos to Boras for getting a team to outbid itself to a great degree.

by Teej on Mar 3, 2009 10:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I thought Fenway was supposed to have positively affected his defense if anything

by seattlebruin on Mar 3, 2009 11:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I thought that until I saw Jason Bay's UZR.

by acblue on Mar 4, 2009 12:04 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Bay sucked as a Pirate too though.

His sample size with the Red Sox was too small to blame the difference on the stadium. He’s not a very good fielder to begin with.

by Vatinius on Mar 4, 2009 1:07 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Fenway does massively inflate doubles to LF, though, doesn't it?

Flyballs that would otherwise be outs hit the monster and become doubles, but no outfielder could have had a play on them.

I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.

by Llewdor on Mar 4, 2009 9:31 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

This just in

Red Sox have signed Inspector Gadget to play LF

Free Stephen "Awesome" Strasburg!

by seattlecougar on Mar 4, 2009 12:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

This is a little on the old side...

…but The Fielding Bible has Manny’s basic +/- at -19 at home and -12 on the road from 2003 to 2005. I can’t find it mentioned what typical home/road splits are. (Like a lot of these splits, there seems to be a lot of year-to-year variation. In ’05 alone, Manny was -13 at home and -1 on the road.)

by ubelmann on Mar 4, 2009 9:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs