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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.

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.

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.

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~

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.

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.

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

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

i know right?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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Mark Attanasio aint' Wendy Selig.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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