Thoughts, lists and other compulsive bits about baseball from comedian filmmaker television producer/Red Sox fan Paul Francis Sullivan.... feel free to call him “Sully.”
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Cliff Lee's name will be said by more agents than you can imagine this winter
Cliff Lee won a landslide victory over Roy Halladay for the Cy Young Award.
It's a great story... the guy was a solid pitcher who was so bad in 2007 that he was sent back to the minors.
He missed out of the Indians ALCS run last year and was barely given a mention from people picking Cleveland in 2008.
And out he came with a 22-3 record and a 2.54 ERA and walks home with some hardware.
(Seriously, if you had told me that Cliff Lee was going to be the Cy Young Award Winner, I would have assumed the Indians won the Division by 21 games, not have to struggle to a .500 record.)
Well that's the good news for Cliff.
The bad news is there are a lot of pitchers coming off of bad seasons... and their agents are going to be singing Cliff Lee's story to every team.
"Why should we sign Glendon Rusch to a 3 year, $27 million conract?"
"He's the next Cliff Lee!"
And chances are there will be a few clubs stupid enough to sign the Kris Bensons, Mike Hamptons and Carl Pavanos of the world thinking they have the next Cliff Lee on their hands.
What I am saying is... Kris, Mike, and Carl...
WELCOME TO THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS!!!!
A great pitcher to be in this select group.
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