ESPN - Phils lock up closer Lidge with three-year, $37.5M extension - MLB
A few years ago this might've looked like a steal, but Lidge has been terrific for the Phillies so far this season. There has to be some concern that he will return to his homer-prone ways -- he allowed 19 homeruns between 2006 and 2007 -- and that could be disastrous at CBP. He's not going to post sub-1.00 ERAs, but if he can be a top-5 closer then this will be a decent, if expensive, deal.
12 months ago
Eric Simon
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will regret this deal. It will not work out for them. I predict that next year Lidge will not pitch well at all. Owners complain about these big contracts but they make deals like this.
"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment." Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human,All Too Human" (1878)
by wgarrett on
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