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To be fair, he isn't "starting" the speculation. This has been going on for a while now.

If it is really something as simple as pitch tipping, this could be huge for Jackson. I imagine they will do the samething they did with Jose Contreras, and have him do that funky glove wiggle to cover up when he changes finger grip in his mitt. Here's to hoping it works.

QUOTE (bulokis @ Aug 3, 2010 -> 12:40 AM) Its a good thing we won because it will be a lot more harder to accept these changes if we did not win the Cup. It would have been four million dollars better if we didn't win the cup.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 05:26 PM) CCs and Santana's WAR was in the 7s leading up to their FA. Danks is 3.6 now, 2.9 last year, and 5.2 two years ago. I will say there is no way on earth he gets the ridiculous contract numbers thrown around here. Beckett money (4/68) is more realistic and even then I think Beckett is pretty much a better pitcher. So was Lackey. All of them were much older than Danks when they hit the open market. As was said earlier, Danks will be 27.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 05:11 PM) Well unless you pay Danksy $20 million a year for 8 years or something, he's not going to want too long a deal either. He's going to want another shot at signing a long-term contract once he hits 32 I would think. I think you either sign him to an extension this offseason...something that pays him above what he would get in arb, and slightly less than you project in his first 2 FA years, throw an option on there for a 5th, and call it a day. If he refuses to work with you on that, you deal him. 4/$48 extension with a club option of $18 million for 2015. If someone is willing to offer that security up front with that sort of huge money, he is signing it.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 04:26 PM) Something tells me that D1 gets moved before he hits FA. That is my guess. Hopefully I am wrong.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) I really doubt that would make a big difference downwards, since so many sales are going to have been locked in by season ticket purchases, especially coming off of a couple of playoff years. From the sounds of the fairweatheredness of the fans out there, it could make a big difference.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:20 PM) As I said, "Well over". I don't think he'll touch Captain Cheeseburger dollars...but he could always snap a sub-3 ERA season out in the next 2 years and put himself at that level. He is looking at a seven or eight year deal if he hits the open market. The guy doesn't miss starts and is left handed. In this day and age, that is worth about 10 million a season all by itself. Throw in the sub 4 eras, the way less than a hit per inning, and not many walks either, and you are in the 17/18 million a year range.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:23 PM) Unless they can push themselves back up into a race with the Giants and Padres, I don't see how the guys they've picked up will do that. Being 5 games out isn't going to create a walkup crowd; being 1 game out would. Ted Lilly isn't going to sell tickets. They're down about 2000/game compared to last year, but last year they were in first place the whole year. How about not creating no-shows by waving the white flag?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:17 PM) Whatever the change we made was on Thornton, we picked him up at the end of ST, KW said "Here stop asking for him", and by day 1 of the season he was the Matt we've come to know and love. IIRC the change in Matt was as simple as making him get the ball up over his wrist instead of on the side that way he had more control over it. That way he didn't have all of the sideways play in his release point.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 12:00 PM) They have a 4% shot of making the playoffs. I really didn't see the point of them buying at the deadline. Selling a few more tickets?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:02 PM) If D1 was interested in a long-term deal at a reasonable value for the team, I have a ton of confidence that it'd be done already. I think he's pitching his arbitration years and wants to hit FA. If nothing goes wrong with his arm, he could easily be looking at a deal well over $100 million. As healthy as he has been, and the numbers he has put up as a lefty, that would be the starting point for a deal.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 10:44 AM) This. I wouldn't be all that upset if Coop didn't make dramatic changes to Jackson overnight, or even this season. I would STILL have more faith in Jackson than Hudson in a big game in the playoffs this year. This whole thing reminds me so much of Brandon McCarthy. I think Edwin Jackson is going to be a monster next year. It depends on what the flaw they are changing is. I know DickAllen referenced Silva at some point. The change Rothschild made in him was as simple as moving to the other side of the rubber to maximize hiding the rotation of his pitch a fraction of a second longer. It could be something of hand positioning on the ball, or an arm slot change, or the finish on a pitch. The arm slot change would be probably the hardest to adjust to, but it depends on how quickly Jackson's musclememory would pick it up. If it is simple, it could pay immediate dividends.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 12:30 PM) Yeah, but we have some good young players that should step up and provide solid minutes. We were return basically 80% of ice time to the team, which is huge, and add a goalie whose abilities are roughly the same as Niemi's. I think we will be fine, but we won't be able to survive injuries all that well. Oh yeah, in the NHL, signing guys to offer sheets is pretty rare, so the Sharks were clearly trying to hurt the Hawks. They knew the Hawks were going to keep Hammer, so they figured, they offer a front-loaded deal, they can kill the Hawks ability to sign Niemi. Can't say I blame them as the Sharks had no shot at a Cup with the Hawks depth and talent. Front loaded deals don't matter in the NHL. The average his is spread out through the life on the contract. This is why the Hossa contract was controversial.

He'll be put on waivers, no doubt. It would be interesting to see if someone did claim him with an eye on 2011. I really doubt that anyone would claim him.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 10:36 AM) Am I missing something? I'm seeing that the club may not offer less than 80%/70% but I can't figure out if there's a benchmark for what the player asks for. There isn't. They could ask for a gazillion dollars if they wanted to.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 10:18 AM) I take it that there is now zero circumstance under which he could return to the Hawks? Yep.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 10:13 AM) Does Nieme stand a chance at getting the $2+ million that the arb ruled elsewhere? He's a free agent at this point. Anything can happen now, but I have to imagine it wouldn't be easy because teams already have their #1 guys.

Well at least I know now that my goalie can kick your goalies ass... He might not be able to stop much anymore, but he has a nasty right cross.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 09:23 AM) Are they just quoting Rosenthal on that? I'd bet on it. They don't do their own research for the most part they are just an RSS feed.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 09:56 AM) People seem to overlook that Coop was supposedly salivating over the chance to get Jackson. Think about it: if you're Kenny, and Coop comes to you and tells you that he feels he knows Hudson's ceiling and Hudson won't be very helpful down the stretch, but he's confident that he can turn Jackson into a stud, what would you do? In Cooper I trust. In Kenny I trust I think it was Matt Thornton that upon acquiring him Kenny went down to Don Cooper and told him something like "there you go, now you got him."

QUOTE (lord chas @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 11:28 PM) wow i still cant believe how bad this salary cap situation turned out to be. would it be possible to sign niemi then at least trade him for something? The bonuses alone are costing us almost 10% of our cap space this year. It is a tough price to pay, but it also means we won the Cup.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 10:37 PM) I can't celebrate a win in a game thread and a good job by my favorite Sox of all time? I was happy and celebrating people. Bobby is a member of the Sox. I thought others would be happy with me. I guess I was wrong. Why does everybody think there are ulterior motives to posts? If you are not happy for/with me, then sorry. It was not a troll thread. And I did have to go to church. As people in game threads may realize, I go Sunday afternoons. I did not realized I was disliked that much. Oh well. That's my true explanation for my post(s) after today's win and Bobby excellence. That is a good idea on Teahen. Hope we put him on waivers and Kotsay as well. It's pretty bad when a still-young player like Teahen won't be claimed. He was a mistake addition by KW. It has nothing to do with being liked or disliked. It is completely about you making a personal shot at everyone who has disagreed with you, despite being told to walk away from it multiple times.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 11:12 PM) Yes. Is that something he had written into his contract, or is that something that comes with 10-5 rights?