Stephen Drew signed a 1 year deal

[Troll Daddy]

with the Red Sox

[nando714]

Cool

[wopphil]

Smart move to reject the QO. Only cost himself $4,000,000.

[Lou]

Congrats, TD

[Glen]

I hope that Mike Napoli gives him scabies.

[DMVol]

Boras is one smart cookie....

[RallyMo]

How do Red Sox fans other than yourself feel about this, pimp?

[Bruce Nye]

Is K-Mo next?

 

Fine job, Boras.  You showed them.

[Brian Ilten]

Boras is complaining that the "system is broken"

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/stephen-drew-signs-with-red-sox-after-all-200005603.html

Edited May 20, 2014 by Brian Ilten

[arch stanton]

Maybe the baseball world is just sick of the Boras/Drew long term deal with player options then straight to the DL routine.

[ScottT]

System ovbiously has a huge flaw when things like this happen.   Teams overvaluing draft picks doesn't help.    

 

It has very little to do with Boras... or Drew's injury problems.  

[disarcina]

I think the system works fine........if guys are going to ask too much, teams are going to think long and hard before losing a draft pick......

 

meanwhile, good pick up by the Red Sox.........am surprised M's were not interested........they need an SS.

[ScottT]

The system doesn't work fine when good players have trouble finding reasonable one year deals... and risk the same fate the next year.   There will be changes.  

[eaterfan]

Why will there be changes? Players just agreed to the CBA. Plus it's only like 2 or 3 players a year. How about all the players who are making an extra $2-3 million a year who took the option. The teams aren't complaining the system is broken when they have to risk overpaying guys when they offer them arb.

[ScottT]

There will be changes because players won't agree to it next time around.  

 

It isn't good for the players... or the sport... when guys like this have trouble finding a reasonable gig and may be subject to the same thing multiple times.

[eaterfan]

There will be changes because players won't agree to it next time around.  

 

It isn't good for the players... or the sport... when guys like this have trouble finding a reasonable gig and may be subject to the same thing multiple times.

 

Stephen Drew getting $10 million for a one year contract seems reasonable. 

[eaterfan]

Stephen Drew is the one who should try context. People were saying as soon as he rejected arb he wouldn't do better. 

 

Isn't the CBA for like the next 8 years. The players pretty much have to pound sand until then.

[ScottT]

It isn't reasonable because if there was no draft pick compensation, he'd get a hell of a lot more than he did.  It isn't reasonable because a guy of his stature should get more than one year.  As far as context goes...  check out baseball salaries.  Joe Blanton got 2/15 and although that was a reach there are plenty of guys that get near what Drew got, or more, but aren't near the player Drew is.   That is a flawed system.

[ScottT]

Maybe he made a mistake and misjudged the market. Maybe  not... he is still getting essentially the same rate salary.   That isn't the point.  

 

CBA is 2012-2016

[eaterfan]

What does it tell you about how good people think Stephen Drew is if they will give Blanton $13 million but won't pay Stephen Drew? Maybe you think he is better than teams do. 29 teams passed on him and many of them are more than happy to throw good money after bad. If he didn't have draft pick compensation tied to him he wouldn't get that much more.

[ScottT]

 Jhonny Peralta got 4 years, $53 million.   They are reasonably comparable players.  Omar Infante got 4/30.   Drew would've gotten a lot more than 1/14  without the draft pick compensation. 

Edited May 21, 2014 by ScottT

[Blarg]

Drew and Bora's made their choice knowing the risks. Don't cry for millionaires making calculated mistakes.