Lester, actually, is in the very same place as Scherzer this season: a rough BABIP that makes his ERA look worse than his peripherals say it should.
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The Red Sox took that show of good will, gave him an all-time lowball offer – four years and $70 million, half of Scherzer's offer despite Lester winning two World Series rings and owning the exact 117 career ERA+ as Scherzer – and now he's headed to free agency, where the market can determine what he's worth. Jon Lester came out and publicly said he wanted to remain with Boston. It makes staying where you've succeeded appealing, divesting yourself of at least one potential bad variable, and it's why.
The price of riches is scrutiny, and no matter where he goes, Scherzer understands it chases him.
A $100 million pitcher is even sketchier, what with elbows dissolving like cotton candy, and to give at least $150 million, and maybe closer to $200 million, to a pitcher with a 3.38 ERA simply doesn't register.Īnd no matter how wrongheaded that thinking may be – Scherzer's strikeout, walk and home run rates are almost identical to last season, only his luck on balls in play has flipped 70 batting-average points in the wrong direction – it's the sort of question $100 million players face. Even as industry revenues blow past $9 billion, the nine-figure player remains a rare breed, scrutinized to the end. Still, Scherzer presents an interesting case for whichever team tries to sign him. And considering the Tigers offered him $144 million before the season and he turned it down, that possibility looms ever greater, even if he isn't quite duplicating his 2013 Cy Young season. Even if Martinez sticks around, chances are they'll end up with an extra pick on account of. A year at the $15 million or so it will pay is a bargain – remember, there's no such thing as a bad one-year contract – and the market should reward Martinez with a multiyear deal, even if he's limited to American League teams. Surely Detroit will attach a qualifying offer to Martinez. He is Edgar Martinez without the walks, and anyone who played during Edgar's era agrees that even a conditional comparison is about the best compliment one can pay a hitter. At 35 years old, he somehow has grown into an amalgamation of prime-era Ichiro Suzuki and Albert Pujols, dangerous from both sides of the plate, powerful yet in complete control. He controls the plate like no hitter in baseball. If Cruz is the Boomstick, Martinez should be the Pixie Stick, with a swing as sweet and refined as sugar. Far lesser hitters have far more real-world worth, and yet big bats remain such a rare commodity that the market for Cruz and Martinez could well run wild this offseason. Victor Martinez share the position of designated hitter that takes away so much value. Victor Martinez remains a valuable commodity. There were the drug ties and the bad glove and the 1980 birthday and draft-bonus money, and as happens with free agency, once a narrative attaches itself to a player, the 30 teams huddle together and shy away. It didn't matter that before his Biogenesis suspension, Cruz was on pace to hit 40-plus home runs, a rare feat in today's power-starved environment. He turned down $14 million, which seemed like the right move until the market for good players with draft-pick compensation attached completely collapsed around him. As far as multimillionaire problems go, it got sort of sad. Nelson Cruz sat as a free agent, ripe to be picked, for nearly four months. He might be the most interesting, considering where he's been, what he's doing and how exactly the industry will view him come November.
Among the glitterati of the group, there was one unaccounted-for epithet above: the powerful enigma.
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