Three of the four teams that reached last year's League Championship Series play in MLB's central divisions. Let's check in on the central with less than four weeks to go before Opening Day…
- Glen Perkins will earn $2.5MM in 2013 and $3.75MM in 2014 and 2015 on his new extension with the Twins, Joe Christensen of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune tweets. The deal includes a $4.5MM club option for 2016 with a $300K buyout.
- Former Cubs manager Mike Quade told Yahoo’s Tim Brown that he may take the summer off, but will coach again eventually (Twitter link). The Cubs dismissed Quade early in the offseason before hiring Dale Sveum to manage the team.
- Astros GM Jeff Luhnow apologized to Rangers president Nolan Ryan and GM Jon Daniels after saying last week that the Rangers spend on the international market “like drunken sailors.” Luhnow said his remarks were taken out of context, according to Brian McTaggart of MLB.com. “It was not a dig against that organization because they’ve done a great job there,” Luhnow said.
Jeff Luhnow is just jealous because he doesn’t have the budget to spend like a drunken sailor.
Houston needs to start spending on any young talent period and the pressure is on him with a 2.5x allotment increase allowed to them, as to how much they spent in 2011 in the 2012 draft.
Doubt Texas will return the jab at him, but he knows the pressure is all on him and the fanbase knows the draft/expenditures track record of the previous ownership.
drunken sailors…Classic !!!
You have to wonder where that old cliche statement even came from.. “drunken sailors”.. Maybe from 17-18th century and when ships almost never came into port?
Even when I was in the USN and 1 ship was out to see for 90 days before coming in, most of the crew IMO didn’t go out and get toasted (a sub tender btw) and that was at the time one of the places (subic bay, Philippines) where the local population made most of it’s money from the military.
Anyway.. One of those nearly meaningless terms of speech that must have been true centuries ago.
Sailors take offense to this comment. They can’t spend like the Rangers can.