Report: Brewers, Gagne Reach Agreement On $10M, 1-Year Deal

a-rod · Post #1 » by **a-rod** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:10 am

wow the brewers are taken a chance him he better take advantage and prove he can be the Gagne of old or next stop will be retirement , maybe
im wrong but if i remember correctly he did blow up lots of saves last season. anyway good luck to Gagne, im rooting for him to get back 100% mentally and Physically.

trwi7 · Post #2 » by **trwi7** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:13 am

How is it a chance? It's for one year, if it doesn't work out we just let him go. I doubt it's $10 million guaranteed as well I'm guess about $7 million with incentives that could push it to $10 million.

a-rod · Post #3 » by **a-rod** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:33 am

trwi7 wrote:How is it a chance? It's for one year, if it doesn't work out we just let him go. I doubt it's $10 million guaranteed as well I'm guess about $7 million with incentives that could push it to $10 million.

I meant taken a chance on him being the closer because i consider
the brewers playoff contenders and their playing tough in division so they need every game. but money wise your probably right its low risk high reword.

Post #4 » by **Chach** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 8:56 am

Milwaukee isn't exactly New York so $10 million is ALOT of money. Second, while he pitched fairly well in Texas, he sucked the big one in Boston and I am somewhat positive that he was injured here. He couldn't hold his arm slot and relied on his fastball more because he couldn't throw his off-speed stuff for strikes. And even if he is healthy, he wasn't $10 million good in Texas, he was a bit lucky in Texas. Bad move by the BrewCrew. mahalo
~Chach~

trwi7 · Post #5 » by **trwi7** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 9:19 am

Again how is it a bad deal? I would agree if it's say 2 or 3 years but it's 1 year, if he sucks we just let him walk, if he's good then he moves on anyways and we collect the draft picks.

Edit: Okay I just looked and it looks like it's for $10 million with $1 million in incentives. I'm still fine with it though, paying him this much was probably the only way we could've gotten him to sign a 1 year deal.

I'd also like the say how far the Brewers as an organization have come. Why only a few years ago Gagne said he would never consider pitching for the Brewers referring to them as a "AAA Club" he was right at the time, not anymore.

Post #6 » by **Flash3** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 1:59 pm

trwi7 wrote:Again how is it a bad deal? I would agree if it's say 2 or 3 years but it's 1 year, if he sucks we just let him walk, if he's good then he moves on anyways and we collect the draft picks.

Edit: Okay I just looked and it looks like it's for $10 million with $1 million in incentives. I'm still fine with it though, paying him this much was probably the only way we could've gotten him to sign a 1 year deal.

I'd also like the say how far the Brewers as an organization have come. Why only a few years ago Gagne said he would never consider pitching for the Brewers referring to them as a "AAA Club" he was right at the time, not anymore.

They're (over)paying him a boatload of $. Anyone would change their mindset. :wink:

cb4_89 · Post #7 » by **cb4_89** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 2:05 pm

why didn't they just give cordero 12-13 million?

A.J. · Post #8 » by **A.J.** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 2:56 pm

cb4_89 wrote:why didn't they just give cordero 12-13 million?

i know right?

WEFFPIM · Post #9 » by **WEFFPIM** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 3:40 pm

cb4_89 wrote:why didn't they just give cordero 12-13 million?

That would have been a 4-year deal. This is for 1

risktaker91 · Post #10 » by **risktaker91** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 4:30 pm

Even though its a one year deal, 10 million for gagne is way too much...

trwi7 · Post #11 » by **trwi7** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 6:37 pm

risktaker91 wrote:Even though its a one year deal, 10 million for gagne is way too much...

And $12-13 million over four years for Cordero is too much and 5/90 for Torii Hunter is too much and whatever Aaron Rowand is going to get is too much and whatever Carlos Silva is going to get is too much and whatever Kyle Lohse is going to get is too much. This is free agency you have to overpay and we only wanted him for one year so we had a overpay a lot otherwise we would've had to give him a multi-year deal.

http://www.last.fm/user/DPF55 · Post #12 » by **Buck You** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:16 pm

cb4_89 wrote:why didn't they just give cordero 12-13 million?

That would have been for 4 years and Cordero's home/road splits were horrible.

Also, it's a ONE YEAR DEAL. Like Buster Onley on Espnews said, it's a Low risk, high reward type move. This guy was dominant before, what makes you think he can't at least be decent? I mean, this will be his contract year and his chance to prove everyone wrong.

ACGB · Post #13 » by **ACGB** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:35 pm

Chach wrote:Milwaukee isn't exactly New York so $10 million is ALOT of money. Second, while he pitched fairly well in Texas, he sucked the big one in Boston and I am somewhat positive that he was injured here. He couldn't hold his arm slot and relied on his fastball more because he couldn't throw his off-speed stuff for strikes. And even if he is healthy, he wasn't $10 million good in Texas, he was a bit lucky in Texas. Bad move by the BrewCrew. mahalo
~Chach~

Mark Attanasio aint' Wendy Selig.

trwi7 · Post #14 » by **trwi7** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 8:17 pm

ALLCAPSGOBUCKS wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Mark Attanasio aint' Wendy Selig.

Pats19andO · Post #15 » by **Pats19andO** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 11:11 pm

LOl Milwauke will run dis fool out of town. Having GagME for 2 1/2 month seriously caused physcological damage to me. I swear I had a heart attack everytime i saw that messed up face. And to think we gave up Gabbard for him!

livestrong4ever · Post #16 » by **livestrong4ever** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 11:13 pm

finally some mofo people who agree with me so I aint a crazy dumb ass.

trwi7 · Post #17 » by **trwi7** » Sun Dec 9, 2007 11:18 pm

Pats19andO wrote:LOl Milwauke will run dis fool out of town. Having GagME for 2 1/2 month seriously caused physcological damage to me. I swear I had a heart attack everytime i saw that messed up face. And to think we gave up Gabbard for him!

No I'm pretty sure that happened before Gagne showed up in Beantown.

StrykerKB24 · Post #18 » by **StrykerKB24** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:09 am

Hopefully Gagne can turn it around. Luckily he's going from the AL East to the NL Central so that should cut at least 1 run off his ERA.

Jasen777 · Post #19 » by **Jasen777** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:28 am

He was great in Texas (2.16 ERA, 1.05 WHIP), I don't know what happened to him in Boston.

Post #20 » by **Rafael122** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:52 pm

What happened to Turnbow? I thought he was going to get a shot?