http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/01/healthy-hudson-shouldnt-come-cheap/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/01/healthy-hudson-shouldnt-come-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:05:07 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1563#comment-4470 You can’t count the first two contracts, since they are Yankee contracts and the Yanks pay 20-30% over market. While Dempster is about market value, the other three contracts were bad signings. The clubs would be eating $5M+ pa on each contract if they traded the players. Lohse is actually pretty funny. He averaged 8-12 with an ERA in the high 4′s in the 4 years before his walk year. He had a good walk year, but he is now back to 6-9 with an ERA in the high 4′s. You’d have thought that the ‘good walk year for a pitcher’ would’ve sunk in after 30 years of doing this, but apparently not.
Not to mention that Hudson is 34. Anything beyond about $30M/3 is too much.

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