PRINCE FIELDER WATCH 2011
by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 27, 2011 9:25 PM PST
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PrintHello and welcome to the second in what I guess now qualifies as a series of PRINCE FIELDER WATCHes. Our first PRINCE FIELDER WATCH was a day and a half ago. We are writing a second so soon because in the time that's passed, the entire landscape has shifted. Which is to say that the entire landscape has shifted in one direction, and then shifted back in the other direction, such that the landscape presently looks exactly like it used to. Onward!
Has Prince Fielder signed a contract?
No.
Has Prince Fielder signed a contract with the Seattle Mariners?
No.
Is Prince Fielder close to signing a contract?
I completely and honestly have no idea.
What does your gut tell you?
This again? My gut tells me the same thing that it did yesterday. No, Prince Fielder is probably not close to signing a contract. You know what happened today? Free agent Dan Wheeler tried to contact the Twins, and he couldn't, because the Twins' front office is shut down for the holidays. Most front offices are shut down for the holidays, and Scott Boras isn't going to let Prince Fielder sign a contract until he's sure that everyone's paying attention. Expect Prince Fielder to sign in 2012. I would be very, very surprised if he made a decision by the end of the week.
What is the latest?
Earlier today, Peter Gammons tweeted that, in conversations with a handful of general managers, a number of them expressed a belief that Boras could have Fielder sign a rich three-year contract so he can re-enter the market at 30. It's evident that the Fielder market hasn't yet developed as Boras would like, so these GMs think he could try to give it another go down the road.
Later on, Boras told ESPN's Bruce Levine that the idea that Fielder could sign a rich three-year contract is "inaccurate and delusional." Boras then went on to accuse certain baseball people of being bored, which, can you blame them? Have you seen the nothing that's been going on? It's the week between Christmas and New Year's! Of course they're bored! I will say that baseball people must not be very creative if this is them exercising their imaginations. Maybe that's why they're baseball people instead of artists. Maybe there are other reasons too.
So, today, we were given the idea of Fielder signing a three-year contract, and then that idea was taken away. Of course, the three-year contract idea was just that - it was GMs engaging in speculation - and I don't think there are many reasons to take Boras at his word, so it's impossible to say what today actually meant. I would wager that today meant nothing. Today just gave people a couple things they could talk about for a little while as they wait for other things.
Prince Fielder is probably going to get a pretty long contract. Some team is probably going to blink. It only takes one, and Boras has made teams bid against themselves before. I can't see Albert Pujols getting ten years, and then Prince Fielder getting way less than ten years in the same offseason. But I can't see a lot of things. That's why I have to wear contact lenses. If I'm not wearing my contacts or my glasses, I'm a horrible person to talk to, because I'll just spend the whole time looking around, marveling at how I would be dead in nature. I wouldn't be able to see food or predators! I'd be like a mole without a burrow!
Are the Mariners still in the thick of things?
I see no reason to believe otherwise.
Haha, "thick of things."
Once was enough.
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Three years is indeed delusional.
Man, we really are bored.
by Teej on Dec 27, 2011 9:34 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
I just found my dad's house on Google Earth.
by Kermit. on Dec 27, 2011 9:39 PM PST up reply actions 17 recs
I bet it was a picture from like 7 years ago though
Keep refreshing, maybe it will update!
by OlSalty on Dec 28, 2011 12:17 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Or maybe you'll just keep seeing your ex's car in the friggin driveway
Would it kill Google to rent a van and a camera more often than once every 5 years? I mean really.
by Chris_FB on Dec 28, 2011 8:29 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I'll take that. 35 hr? Think about our past two seasons and then consider that number.
Then he can rebound and go .285/.390/.600 again the next year when we’re contending. These are my conditions, should you choose to accept them.
IGNORE ME
by tsunamijesus on Dec 28, 2011 6:34 PM PST up reply actions
I've seen this post already
It’s a rerun. I can tell you how it turns out, but don’t want to spoil for those who missed the original.
All hail JZ
You're doing the world a service.
by FaceRuiner on Dec 27, 2011 11:21 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Is he?
I heard there’s a director’s cut copy somewhere…
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Exactly
Or maybe a blooper’s reel.
All hail JZ
by Mariners_win on Dec 28, 2011 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
But has Munenori Kawasaki signed yet?
My offseason is still hollow without knowing whether Ichiro will have a dino-buddy for 2012.
by Chris_FB on Dec 28, 2011 8:32 AM PST via mobile reply actions
"marveling at how I would be dead in nature. I wouldn't be able to see food or predators! I'd be like a mole without a burrow!"
I think this every time I go outside without my glasses/contacts. I was studying in New Orleans this summer and my lenses tore the first day I was there and I didn’t have spares (d’oh) so I was blind, walking around in an, honestly, pretty intimidating city, for two weeks as a super white guy with a bad sunburn. I was a fannie pack away from “mug and kill me”
But, my eyes adjusted and I could actually see almost 20/25 by the end of two weeks. I could read signs and stuff from pretty far away. I’ll bet you’d survive in the wild, Jeff, you’d just be really hungry for a couple weeks. Unless you were a pack animal or agrarian, then you’d probably be the reason that our blind kind made it this far, evolution-speaking.
Baseball!
IGNORE ME
Boras the Spider
I’d like Prince better if Boras wasn’t his shill. Do we really want a triumphant Boras at a Safeco press conference ?
The only thing more annoying than Boras hate is the constant whining about Boras as if he were some sort of antichrist baby strangler
He is an agent. His job is to get his clients a lot of money. He does that job incredibly well. If I were a baseball player I would want Boras to get me a lot of money.
by pdb on Dec 28, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Thank goodness no other agents consider money in their clients itnerests.
It would mean chaos. Absolute chaos I tell you!
Not me.
One team player is what I’d be chasing, so I’d be wanting that no trade clause!
You know, providing I was good. I don’t think I’d be good.
by Aussie Mariner on Dec 28, 2011 9:45 PM PST up reply actions
If it means we signed a really good baseball player at a price the team can afford, then yes.
No matter where you go, there you are.
That was a pretty ambiguous term, I admit.
It was meant to say that if the Mariners got a player that could help the team out for the right price, than I could care less who the agent is. I guess I would consider a “really good player” someone who could be counted on to produce 3.5-4.0 WAR each season.
No matter where you go, there you are.
He is a Boras client so he must be really good too, right?
No matter where you go, there you are.
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