the cliff lee sweepstakes

Pharmcat · Post #1 » by **Pharmcat** » Wed Dec 8, 2010 5:19 pm

please hold your offer, we are not accepting them yet :lol:

ive never seen an agent working like this b4, you have big market teams willing to spend big $$, and despite meeting with the teams, the agent and lee are still not accepting offers, amazing strategy

btw, reports say yanks to make 6 yr 140-150 mill offer today

Wavy Q · Post #2 » by **Wavy Q** » Thu Dec 9, 2010 3:11 am

lol @ Nationals offering him a contract

Dr Positivity · Post #3 » by **Dr Positivity** » Thu Dec 9, 2010 10:33 pm

Why would the Rangers want a 140 mil contract. I'm surprised they're not smarter than this.

CentralQB5 · Post #4 » by **CentralQB5** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:09 am

any where but the damn yanks

trwi7 · Post #5 » by **trwi7** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:14 am

Pharmcat wrote:please hold your offer, we are not accepting them yet

ive never seen an agent working like this b4, you have big market teams willing to spend big $$, and despite meeting with the teams, the agent and lee are still not accepting offers, amazing strategy

btw, reports say yanks to make 6 yr 140-150 mill offer today

It seems to be working, doesn't it? The Rangers have already raised their offer. Who knows if the Yankees get nervous and raise their offer.

I'll echo anyone but the Yankees.

Wade2k6 · Post #6 » by **Wade2k6** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:58 am

I don't understand why these idiots think the mystery team is the Phillies. There is a better chance of me making the major leagues then the Phillies shelling out 150+ million for Lee over the next 7 years.

trwi7 · Post #7 » by **trwi7** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:47 am

Wade2k6 wrote:I don't understand why these idiots think the mystery team is the Phillies. There is a better chance of me making the major leagues then the Phillies shelling out 150+ million for Lee over the next 7 years.

Well Rosenthal, Heyman and Crasnick are all saying it's the Phillies. Seems that it would probably be them, no?

Edit: And Jack Curry of YES says there is a belief he's heading to the Phillies. Wow would that be an insane rotation. Halladay/Lee/Oswalt/Hamels/Who cares who the 5th starter is? It could be a four year old and that would be the best rotation in baseball.

http://twitter.com/JackCurryYES/status/ ... 6416030720

Wade2k6 · Post #8 » by **Wade2k6** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:18 am

If they're in on Lee now, why would they have traded him in the first place? Supposedly they traded him away to "replenish their farm system" after acquiring Halladay, but I think everybody realizes they traded him away because they knew they couldn't afford him the following off-season & wanted to get some sort of compensation.

trwi7 · Post #9 » by **trwi7** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:28 am

Right and now they're looking to trade Joe Blanton, have Werth off the books and Ibanez will be off the books after this year, plus they reportedly offered less than the Yankees. Just look around all over the web. Just a few minutes ago Joel Sherman tweeted that the Yankees are extremely negative about landing Lee and the Phillies are the favorites.

Relentless88 · Post #10 » by **Relentless88** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:38 am

That would suck for the Yankees if Lee ends up in Philly. Philly adds Lee to a deadly rotation and Boston just added Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez. New York added....

trwi7 · Post #11 » by **trwi7** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:00 am

Relentless88 wrote:New York added....

Carl Pavano is still available.

trwi7 · Post #12 » by **trwi7** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:00 am

LOL. Lee agrees to deal with Phillies. Those guys who said the Phillies are the 3rd suitor sure are idiots.

http://trsullivan.mlblogs.com/archives/ ... ladel.html

Post #13 » by **Celtics_Champs** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:06 am

Is that a reliable source?

espn just said the yanks are out of it.

Post #14 » by **HMFFL** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:06 am

ESPN just reported that the Yankees are out of the running.

Philly with Cliff Lee would obviously be dangerous.

trwi7 · Post #15 » by **trwi7** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:09 am

Celtics_Champs wrote:Is that a reliable source?

espn just said the yanks are out of it.

T.R. Sullivan is the Rangers beat writer for mlb.com, so I'd imagine he's pretty reliable. Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News says it's a 5 year deal.

Post #16 » by **Celtics_Champs** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:13 am

trwi7 wrote:
Celtics_Champs wrote:Is that a reliable source?

espn just said the yanks are out of it.

T.R. Sullivan is the Rangers beat writer for mlb.com, so I'd imagine he's pretty reliable. Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News says it's a 5 year deal.

Sweet. Glad he's not going to the yankees.

Wade2k6 · Post #17 » by **Wade2k6** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:16 am

I'm shocked, I guess these guys weren't idiots after all. I never thought the Philly organization would give out a huge contract to Lee.

Dirty Water · Post #18 » by **Dirty Water** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:20 am

Wow. Just wow. If the Phils weren't NL favorites before.... they are now

Dirty Water · Post #19 » by **Dirty Water** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:20 am

Wade2k6 wrote:I'm shocked, I guess these guys weren't idiots after all. I never thought the Philly organization would give out a huge contract to Lee.

If he turned down the Yankees then it probably wasn't all about the money....

Wade2k6 · Post #20 » by **Wade2k6** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:25 am

Dirty Water wrote:If he turned down the Yankees then it probably wasn't all about the money....

Yeah it might not be all about money, but I'd imagine he's still being signed for at least 100 million over 5 years.