Home | Find it in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Suburban Journals | St. Louis' Best Bridal | Ladue News | MySTLtoday.com | Coupons | Mobile
Log In | Subscriber Services | Advertise | Privacy
Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Post new topic Reply to topic
>Previous Topic >Next Topic
author
message
E2
Forum User
E2 is offline 
Joined: 24 Jul 2008
Posts: 279
Post subject: Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 14:16 pm
Just passing along what others are writing. Not sure that SI's John Heyman has any special insight into the Cards. (didn't see this posted either)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_heyman/11/09/winter.preview/index.html?eref=writers

From the article:

CHICAGO -- No team is going to spend or presumably improve via free agency like the Yankees did last winter, when they doled out $423.5 million to three star players alone. Post-parade, and as the GM meetings get underway here on Monday, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the Yankees spent wisely. But with the Yankees far less needy this winter and this year's free-agent list less star-studded -- Matt Holliday, Jason Bay and John Lackey are the only in-their-prime players who can reasonably aim for $100 million deals and the only ones even sure to crack $50 million -- no team is expected to try to duplicate such a spending spree. Nor would one even be possible this time around.

While there's no pitching rotation transformer of CC Sabathia's ilk, and some baseball people might contend that there's no everyday player to match Mark Teixeira, either (though Holliday's agent, Scott Boras, uses Teixeira -- who's also his client -- as Holliday's main comp), that doesn't mean that the pursuit of this winter's top trio will be anything less than fascinating. The chances for a quick deal for any star with their incumbent team within the 15-day exclusive negotiating period are never great, but they appear to be especially slight in the case of Holliday, who, like his middle-of-the-order running mate Albert Pujols, doesn't appear to be rushing into a deal with the Cardinals.

Though the St. Louis Post-Dispatch suggested that the "framework'' of a contract offer to the 29-year-old Holliday, estimated to be $96 million for six years, has been put forth, Boras said on Sunday that the Cardinals have made no proposals. In cases of star players, Boras won't accept offers below a certain level (with Teixeira it was $160 million just to get into the game), and someone else close to Holliday wondered how such a reported contract bid could reasonably be accepted by Holliday considering that Alfonso Soriano, in some respects a less accomplished and more flawed player, received $136 million for eight years three winters ago from the Cubs. In any case, the chances for Holliday to remain a Cardinal look slim at this point.



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_heyman/11/09/winter.preview/index.html?eref=writers#ixzz0WOYDtrMK
Get a free NFL Team Jacket and Tee with SI Subscription
View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Blues19
Forum User
Blues19 is offline 
Joined: 14 Nov 2007
Posts: 1514
Post subject: Re: Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 14:25 pm
Yada Yada Same was said about Rolen.
View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
314sportsfan
Forum User
314sportsfan is offline 
Joined: 16 Apr 2006
Posts: 711
Post subject: Re: Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 14:29 pm

E2 wrote

Not sure that SI's John Heyman has any special insight into the Cards.


...and that's the $100M sentence. ALL these guys do is speculate. they talk to a couple "league sources" who may or may not work in the mail room and think they're fit to spout off. can't really blame them though, got to write something from November to March. fact is though they almost always know nothing.
_________________

View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
B_Ruby
Forum User
B_Ruby is offline 
Joined: 08 Aug 2008
Posts: 4379
Post subject: Re: Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 14:48 pm
Who wold have thought that Alfonso Soriano's contract would hurt the Cardinals so much, but in such a way?

What a novel competitive approach the Cubs took to take down their rivals: Damage your competitors' chances of re-signing their players by damaging yourself with a ridiculous contract. Shocked
View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
futuregm
Forum User
futuregm is offline 
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Posts: 5967
Post subject: Re: Heyman: Chances of Holliday to Cards are slim
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 14:50 pm

B_Ruby wrote

Who wold have thought that Alfonso Soriano's contract would hurt the Cardinals so much, but in such a way?

What a novel competitive approach the Cubs took to take down their rivals: Damage your competitors' chances of re-signing their players by damaging yourself with a ridiculous contract. Shocked


Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

Maybe that was their goal all along!
_________________


My Blog: unparalleledbaseball.blogspot.com
View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
All times are CST (CST6CDT)
Post new topic Reply to topic
> >Previous Topic >Next Topic
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum