BEN SHEETS!? BEN F’ING SHITS?!?!!?
wow news really is slow… how come nobody is as excited as i am for the dobber returning for 2 more? i think that’s as good a deal as hamels (well… not AS good but still really good!)…
if sheets takes a drastic paycut on a 1 or 2 yr deal loaded with incentives (such as IP or playoff production) then i could see us takin a shot at him…
i mean hell, when he’s on, he’s really on. and talk about a shakeup for our rotation…
1 – king cole
2 – myers
3 – sheets?
4 – blanton
5 – winner of moyer/corrasco/happ/park
that’s a nice amount of depth right there – i’d take him but not for than $3million guaranteed money… and i’d say with a decent amount of confidence that he garners more than that amount.

No thanks on Sheets. His mechanics leave him extremely injury prone. The contract would have to be very cheap to justify bringing in someone who will almost certainly break down and land on the DL several times per season.

I’d very happily take Sheets, at anything up to $10 million a year for two years. If you look at his track record, it’s true that he isn’t durable, but it’s also generally the case that he gives you 150-180 very good innings.

Problem is that with how the team seems to view its budget, it’s very unlikely that you’d have both Sheets and Myers. The rumor was that the Braves moved so aggressively on Lowe because the Phillies were trying to trade Myers to clear up payroll and go after Lowe. Sheets won’t cost that much, but unless they can dump salary somewhere else—and offloading a third of Jenkins’ contract, or getting Eaton to agree to pro-rate the money he’ll be stealing, won’t cut it—I don’t see this happening.

Fun to think about though.

And the list of times he’s been wrong this offseason can’t be held on one page.

Depend on the cost, the insurance and the incentives involved. Could be a smart low risk high reward signing worthy of good franchises.