Clayton Kash-Shaw

[Edgy MD]

Seven-year extension, $2[u:r8lppei8]1[/u:r8lppei8]5 million. Escape clause after five.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Seven-year extension, $25 million. Escape clause after five.

wow, $3.5 a year or so seems like a steal!

($215 really)

Pretty fair deal all around I guess. pitcher's being what they are.

[Edgy MD]

My "1" key was sticky today.

[Gwreck]

I bet he turns out to be worth it

[Edgy MD]

Maybe. but not many pitchers have been.

[Lefty Specialist]

They always reach year 7 of deals like this and people will say, "What were they thinking?"

[Edgy MD]

Or in the cases of Mike Hampton and Barry Zito, year one.

[MFS62]

Will they still have enough money to sign that Japanese pitcher (Tanaka?), or does this mean the path has been eased for the MFYs to get him?

Hoping this deal will be Zito-like, but worse.

Later

[Edgy MD]

With most teams, including the Mets (perhaps especially the Mets), it's almost never about cash on hand, but projected revenue streams and appreciation and depreciation and yadda yadda.

Who knows where they're going, but I think they're looking pretty over-leveraged for a 92-win team. Three long-term, big-buckz contracts in the rotation alone is quite a haul.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Lefty Specialist wrote: They always reach year 7 of deals like this and people will say, "What were they thinking?"

Except this is the guy-- 25 y/o, top of his field-- you SHOULD be lavishing with 7-year deals, and the situation-- hot-air-inflation-ridden market... and a 25-year-old two-time Cy winner-- in which you should be willing to lock in a guy.

If he stays healthy, he'll be opting out for an ungodly amount of money at age-30.

[ashie62]

When I think of the money Taneka may get... Kershaw may be a steal of sorts...

[Gwreck]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: and a 25-year-old two-time Cy winner

At the risk of sacrilege here, it probably should have been 3. No matter how good the R.A. Dickey narrative was.

[batmagadanleadoff]

and a 25-year-old two-time Cy winner At the risk of sacrilege here, it probably should have been 3. No matter how good the R.A. Dickey narrative was.

This wouldn't be the first time that a Met pitcher might've gotten into the meat middle of someone else's Cy Young sandwich, thus preventing a three-peat. At the risk of even more sacrilege, go and compare Seaver and Gibson's '69 stats, with close attention to some of those stats that either didn't exist, or were largely ignored 45 years ago. There might be a Mets precedent for Dickey's thwart*. Seaver had the ever-important Wins, the WHIP and the "terrific" story. Gibby had just about everything else. And Gibby did it for 40+ more innings than Seaver did.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1969-pitching-leaders.shtml

*Assuming, of course, that you think Dickey was undeserving of his CYA in the first place.