What a crazy off season its been so far and were only roughly a month and a half in people. I am talking about the crazy off season deals that are flying around Major League Baseball. First, lets talk about the wonderful but starving Boston Red Sox who signed 3-time All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez on day one of MLB Winter Meetings. Gonzalez hit .298 with 33 doubles, 31 homers and 101 RBIs in 160 games last season, and most importantly he's only 28 years old. He is set to make 6.2 million in 2011.
A second big deal that has heads turning around the league is the big pick up for the Washington Nationals, when they went balls out and picked Jayson Werth off the free agent list and signed him to a 7 years 126 million dollars. Now if your sitting back at home reading this I want you to think about this, if Werth is not in it for the money I don't know what else he is playing for. The guy is going to the worst team in baseball for one and what has he done so spectacular that's "WERTH" 126 million. I mean he was on the best NL team for roughly five years and one 1 ring, not a big playoff guy just saying. He did show up against the Yankees In 2009 World Series.
Finally for the many players who have not yet signed a contract for the 2011 season. Why has Carl Crawford one of the fastest guys in the game not have a job? Is this a joke the guy is going to steal roughly 50 bags, hit 20 home runs and his average will be in the high 200's or low 300's. The biggest surprise to me which i heard this morning on ESPN was that the Oakland A's were having conversations with Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui, if I am Matsui I am going nowhere near Oakland. One its way to ghetto for the Japanese guy, two the team just absolutely sucks plus its the worst/dirtiest ballpark in baseball.
Not trying to be a dick or anything I'm just stating facts Werth is not "Werth" that much, Matsui needs to talk to another team, and the Red Sox just got the best first basemen in baseball besides Aubrey Huff.
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