Extension Updates for Cain/Bum

[ColinCoby]

From espn in:

The contract talks between Matt Cain and the Giants, and those between the Philadelphia Phillies and Cole Hamels, remain in holding patterns. Each team knows what it will take to sign its respective pitcher, and both teams know there's an excellent chance that if they don't pay, some other team will pay in the fall if the players become free agents.

It's perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances, for each pitcher to want and expect a market-price deal for something in the range of 5-6 years at $20-24 million a year. It's also perfectly reasonable for the Giants and the Phillies to pass. We'll see what happens.

 

[gp956]

From espn in:

The contract talks between Matt Cain and the Giants, and those between the Philadelphia Phillies and Cole Hamels, remain in holding patterns. Each team knows what it will take to sign its respective pitcher, and both teams know there's an excellent chance that if they don't pay, some other team will pay in the fall if the players become free agents.

It's perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances, for each pitcher to want and expect a market-price deal for something in the range of 5-6 years at $20-24 million a year. It's also perfectly reasonable for the Giants and the Phillies to pass. We'll see what happens.

Can you imagine the Dodgers signing them both!

They've got Kemp signed long term @21.5, Billingsly signed until 2015, and Kershaw won't be a FA until 2015. They've got 92M committed to 2013.

Sign them both at 5/25M and they should be able to field a pretty great team at around 170M in 2013. They'd have Hamels/Cain/Kemp locked up until 2017.

 

[calsnowskier]

Can you imagine the Dodgers signing them both!

They've got Kemp signed long term @21.5, Billingsly signed until 2015, and Kershaw won't be a FA until 2015. They've got 92M committed to 2013.

Sign them both at 5/25M and they should be able to field a pretty great team at around 170M in 2013. They'd have Hamels/Cain/Kemp locked up until 2017.

Yet another neg-worthy post on this board.

What has this place become?

 

[Heathbar012]

Yet another neg-worthy post on this board.

What has this place become?

Cal hates hypothetical situations that involve a lack of Giants' success. Too much imagination or not enough?

 

[calsnowskier]

Cal hates hypothetical situations that involve a lack of Giants' success. Too much imagination or not enough?

But this one had not only a lack of Giants success, but it had the added feature of Doggy success.

Damn, I REALLY want to neg that one...

 

[gp956]

But this one had not only a lack of Giants success, but it had the added feature of Doggy success.

Damn, I REALLY want to neg that one...

Come on man..... you're supposed to present the flip side, by having the Giants lock up Hamels and Cain. What else is that rainy day fund for?

 

[filosofy29]

Come on man..... you're supposed to present the flip side, by having the Giants lock up Hamels and Cain. What else is that rainy day fund for?

It used to be for a years supply of Bowties and some Microsoft stock. Not sure where it's allocated now.

 

[gp956]

Andrew Baggarly ‏ @CSNBaggs
#SFGiants working furiously to get something done with Matt Cain. Too soon to tell if meaningful progress is being made.

Henry Schulman ‏ @hankschulman
Piggybacking on what @CSNBaggs just Tweeted, I’ve gotten a strong sense yesterday and today that Cain-Giants talks are at sizzle stage.

 

[tzill]

Andrew Baggarly ‏ @CSNBaggs
#SFGiants working furiously to get something done with Matt Cain. Too soon to tell if meaningful progress is being made.

Henry Schulman ‏ @hankschulman
Piggybacking on what @CSNBaggs just Tweeted, I’ve gotten a strong sense yesterday and today that Cain-Giants talks are at sizzle stage.

This makes me happy.

 

[gp956]

This makes me happy.

Even if they get it done now, they wouldn't announce today....would they?

 

[tzill]

Even if they get it done now, they wouldn't announce today....would they?

I think it'd leak out about 15 mins after the ink dried.

 

[msgkings322]

Even if they get it done now, they wouldn't announce today....would they?

If they did maybe they'd have the humor to announce a 10 year deal at $1 mil per.

That's the problem with the modern internet saturated world, April Fools Day is so full of prank announcements that if something weird actually happens today, no one will believe it.

But that's it, that's the only problem with the modern world. Just that right there.

 

[tzill]

If they did maybe they'd have the humor to announce a 10 year deal at $1 mil per.

That's the problem with the modern internet saturated world, April Fools Day is so full of prank announcements that if something weird actually happens today, no one will believe it.

But that's it, that's the only problem with the modern world. Just that right there.

True. The whole global warming thing is a scam, as is that silly anti-Semitism in the Middle East.

Well, there is ONE more problem with the world: The DH. Nothing else though.

 

[gp956]

If they did maybe they'd have the humor to announce a 10 year deal at $1 mil per.

That's the problem with the modern internet saturated world, April Fools Day is so full of prank announcements that if something weird actually happens today, no one will believe it.

But that's it, that's the only problem with the modern world. Just that right there.

I think that sums it up.

 

[mistgl]

True. The whole global warming thing is a scam, as is that silly anti-Semitism in the Middle East.

Well, there is ONE more problem with the world: The DH. Nothing else though.

Th DH is more un-American than terrorist.... just saying.

 

[msgkings322]

Th DH is more un-American than terrorist.... just saying.

Well, to be precise, the DH is totally American....League.

 

[mistgl]

Well, to be precise, the DH is totally American....League.

Like I said, un-American.....

 

[Stokes1931]

I think it'd leak out about 15 mins after the ink dried.

Why wait so long?

Unless some news about Susac is announced at the same time....

 

[MarcoPolo]

That's the problem with the modern internet saturated world, April Fools Day is so full of prank announcements that if something weird actually happens today, no one will believe it.

Did you hear about the prank the Cards pulled?

Cards prank Adam Wainwright

JUPITER, Fla. -- A lucky fan was about to win a truck, and Adam Wainwright thought it was pretty cool.

Until the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher realized it was his white pickup being driven onto the field.

Cardinals teammates Lance Berkman and Skip Schumaker pulled off an April Fools' Day prank Sunday that had Wainwright hoping at first that it was all just for laughs.

"As long as that's a joke, that is well done," Wainwright said. "I don't know if that's a joke, yet."

Turned out, it sure was. And it got Wainwright good.

Following the second inning of the Cardinals' 2-1 spring training loss to the Washington Nationals, public address announcer John Frost read a fake script proclaiming that a fan won a car. Berkman drove a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado onto the field from the left-field fence -- just as a local dealership had done during an advertising spot before the start of the previous inning.

Berkman, in uniform but not in the starting lineup, drove toward home plate and then to the front of the Cardinals' dugout, where he started honking the horn.

Wainwright quickly realized something was up.

"I wanted to see who was driving," Wainwright said. "I looked around (the dugout) and didn't hear or see Lance, so ... ."

Meanwhile, Matt Griffin -- the uncle of third baseman David Freese -- kept the gag going in the stands. Holding a ticket to the "winning" seat just announced over the stadium speakers, Griffin jumped around wildly as though he'd won the car. Griffin grabbed his son, ran down onto the field and climbed into the bed of the pickup.

"Something needed to be done. It's April Fools'," Schumaker said. "We collectively just thought about doing something. As usual, Lance took it over the top."

Berkman struggled to maneuver the oversized truck around the Cardinals' bullpen mounds before exiting the field through the right-field gate. St. Louis manager Mike Matheny knew the prank would happen, but was not part of the planning.

"Hilarious," Wainwright said of the practical joke. "Those are the kinds of things that keep baseball pretty fun -- besides the fact that baseball is already pretty fun."

 

[gp956]

Cain Expected To Sign Five-Year Deal

The Giants will sign right-hander Matt Cain to an extension "in the neighborhood of" five years and $110MM by Opening Day, two sources tell John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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