So you have a pitcher who is 22-5 with nine saves in nine opportunities at home over a three year period. Your home park is atrocious and pitcher's avoid throwing here like they avoid the plague. Your pitcher ultimately leaves after not "feeling the love" and signs for five years and $77.5M. Your player is CJ Wilson.
Instead you post nearly $52M to have a chance to sign a pitcher and ultimately do so...spending another $60M for five years. That is $112M for five years for a guy, who as a good as he was in Japan, has never pitched a day in the Major Leagues. You know, where lineups stack up one to nine and pitchers have to work against every batter.
While local Rangers fans are ecstatic, I don't get it. You had a known commodity in CJ Wilson and a guy who got you to the last series of the year...twice and you decide to spend another thirty-five million dollar on a pretty good pitcher in his league, but it still aint the Majors. Maybe time will prove me wrong, but this seems to be another mistake by an organization that got incredibly close twice before collapsing. Is Yu somehow going to be Mr. Baseball. I think he is more likely to be a Chan Ho Park, but time will tell.
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