Jayson Werth Now A Washington National?

7 year deal he's supposedly about to sign.

 

Seems a bit long.

 

Wouldn't surprise me...

 

7/126? Thats disgusting for an over 30 journeyman player who hadn't really done jack in an 8 year career until the last few.

Good Job Nats!!

 

:icon_cry: My view from right field will never be the same. Glad he's staying in the NL though.

 

Werth agrees to $126 million, 7-yr deal with Nats - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

The Nats done gone crazy.

 

One hell of a retirement package he received

 

Everybody is basically bashing this move. It's obvious that he's overpaid and towards the end of the contract it'll be a bunch of money, but this is what the Nationals had to do to get him. And what it does is make a guy like Willingham more likely to be traded to sure up the rotation and possibly bring in another young player.

The Nats look dumb for the signing, and if another team did it they'd look desperate, so at this point the only thing that matters to me is that the Nats were aggressive. We could've had an OF of Willingham, Morgan, and Bernadina with Morse at 1st and many people wouldn't have been happy.

Was Dunn a better option? Possibly, less years and money. But Werth can put up power (although not the same) and a better average. He has good OF defense and most likely whoever plays 1st will be better at defense than Dunn.

This could all be a mute point years from now but it's something to look at I guess.

 

I understand being optimistic but worth was in a superstar lineup playing for a contract. This is Barry Zito bad.

 

Good for him...cash in while you can.

He'll wind up being somewhere in between Jason Michaels and the "Phillies" Jayson Werth. He won't be the Werth that played for the Phils...lol.

 

Moot point.

 

What difference does it make. Most baseball contracts are ridiculously ridiculous anyway relatively speaking. Guess this is just extra ridiculously ridiculous.

 

If you go to bleacherreport.com, they say that the Nats have offered Lee a seven-year deal. If that is the case, where are they getting all of this money?

 

the owner(s) of the nats are loaded. money isn't an issue and if the nats can sign lee along with werth they will put a lot more asses in the seats.

HTTR hit it on the head really, if the nats want guys like werth & lee they have to overpay. the phillies did it with thome and it worked perfectly.

werth is going to have to find a way to have better at bats as he will not be protected. if he takes the clea-up spot there's going to be issues as his slugging percentage went to crap and he will be in a bigger stadium.

all that said i can't fault the nats for doing this, at all.

the only thing that buggem me with all of this is werth saying he felt unwanted. what ?

 

This deal is fine with me. Now it's going to take one helluva big butt contract to get Carl Crawford signed. Hopefully no one will be willing to give him something similar and he stays a Ray.

I know I'm dreaming but it's all I got at this poinrt.

 

This is off topic but Friedman said before the year if the attendance revenue didn't improve he was going to cut payroll. So it's our (Tampa Bay fans) fault for not supporting the team Plus it's obvious he want a stadium over here on the Tampa side of the bay.