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Thursday, July 15, 2004

Pickoff Moves

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Raul "Sarcoma" Mondesi has started a rehab stint in Salt Lake.

ESPN's Most Overpaid

If you haven't seen it already, no surprises here: Colon and the Dodgers quartet of Dreifort, Green, Nomo, and Hundley topped ESPN's list of overpaid players. However, they forgot to mention Raul Mondesi, who failed to hit, fielded poorly, and then went on the DL, and Kevin Appier, who continues to get his obscene contract even though he (a) no longer plays for the Angels, and (b) has retired for 2004 and will attempt a comeback in 2005.

For This They Want Me To Pay?

Also on ESPN, this story asking whether A-Rod will be able to lure Randy Johnson to the Yanks. As if the Yanks had anything to give to the Diamondbacks. And this is their "Insider" content. Yeah.

Comments:
"Hideo Nomo had a great start to his major league career, but it's been downhill ever since."

Merron is an idiot. Nomo has been fucking brilliant the past few years. One last horrible year does not make his career "downhill" from the beginning. Yea, Nomo is hurting the team, and if I had it my way, he wouldn't pitch again now. But he deserves every cent for what he's done for the dodgers.

mattkew
 
I guess the question is, did Merron write that caption?
 
I seem to remember Greg Easterbrook lamenting in one of his TMQs that the ESPN columnists have no say in the photos or captions that accompany their articles.

Also, Mondesi isn't making all that much bank this season ($1.75m with the Angels). While that may be $1.75m too much, he's hardly comparable to the other names on that list.
 

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