Saturday, December 20, 2003
NO CEDENO
Just another midnight and another two articles...
Finnigan has his article covering Jeff Cirillo's exercising his no-trade clause. Even still, much of the article had to do with Freddy Garcia and the circumstances surrounding the tender/nontender decision. All I'll say about this is that it seems everyone forgot (or at least the media did before tonight, and in turn everyone else forgot) that Jeff Cirillo had a limited no-trade clause built into his contract.
The one quote that caught my eye here, though, was this --
If Garcia agrees [to a $6-7M/yr deal believed to be offered by the Mariners], and chooses not to become a non-tendered free agent, it is expected the pitcher's contract would eat up the financial leeway the Mariners built into the 2004 player payroll budget by limiting Ichiro's contract to a possible $7.5 million next season, including one-quarter of the prorated $6 million signing bonus, plus incentives.
And of course, it perks my ears up whenever I read a Mariner-related article and see the phrase "financial leeway." If your ears/eyes are tuned to the same frequency/wavelength as mine, you'd know that my interpretation of that quote is "we're not doing a damn thing at the next deadline AGAIN, just in case you had any inclination to think we were."
And here's Hickey's article on the situation, with much more stuff about the growing phenomenon of nontenders and the Rich Aurilia pursuit.
News should pick up in about 18 hours, because midnight ET is the non-tender deadline for arb-eligible players.
I've said it before, but I miss the rush...whoever decided to push the July 31st trading deadline up from midnight ET to 4pm ET should have their head(s) checked. There was just this certain rush I got on the night of July 31st when I would watch Baseball Tonight and they were busy as hell in the studio, and they were doing game highlights and trade coverage in the same action-packed show. All the while, they had every camera shot of when the player would be sitting there in the dugout and the manager would come up to them, then the player would suddenly get up and stroll toward the tunnel. Great times. PUT THE TRADE DEADLINE BACK TO MIDNIGHT ET!!!
Finnigan has his article covering Jeff Cirillo's exercising his no-trade clause. Even still, much of the article had to do with Freddy Garcia and the circumstances surrounding the tender/nontender decision. All I'll say about this is that it seems everyone forgot (or at least the media did before tonight, and in turn everyone else forgot) that Jeff Cirillo had a limited no-trade clause built into his contract.
The one quote that caught my eye here, though, was this --
If Garcia agrees [to a $6-7M/yr deal believed to be offered by the Mariners], and chooses not to become a non-tendered free agent, it is expected the pitcher's contract would eat up the financial leeway the Mariners built into the 2004 player payroll budget by limiting Ichiro's contract to a possible $7.5 million next season, including one-quarter of the prorated $6 million signing bonus, plus incentives.
And of course, it perks my ears up whenever I read a Mariner-related article and see the phrase "financial leeway." If your ears/eyes are tuned to the same frequency/wavelength as mine, you'd know that my interpretation of that quote is "we're not doing a damn thing at the next deadline AGAIN, just in case you had any inclination to think we were."
And here's Hickey's article on the situation, with much more stuff about the growing phenomenon of nontenders and the Rich Aurilia pursuit.
News should pick up in about 18 hours, because midnight ET is the non-tender deadline for arb-eligible players.
I've said it before, but I miss the rush...whoever decided to push the July 31st trading deadline up from midnight ET to 4pm ET should have their head(s) checked. There was just this certain rush I got on the night of July 31st when I would watch Baseball Tonight and they were busy as hell in the studio, and they were doing game highlights and trade coverage in the same action-packed show. All the while, they had every camera shot of when the player would be sitting there in the dugout and the manager would come up to them, then the player would suddenly get up and stroll toward the tunnel. Great times. PUT THE TRADE DEADLINE BACK TO MIDNIGHT ET!!!
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