Which baseball team spent their money the best?

Answer 1

In all seriousness, I have to say none of them did. Not a single player that has been signed during free agency is worth the money they are being payed. Soriano was definitely the best free agent on the market, so because the Cubs bagged him, I guess you could say that at least they spent their money on the best option, but even they signed Lilly for some ridiculously overpriced contract. Boston spending 100 million on a guy who has never pitched in the league before. Are you serious? JD Drew? Ha Ha. Carlos Lee? A guy who can't play defense at all and goes through major slumps throughout the season gets over 100 million (almost three times what the Brewers wanted to pay him). I love baseball more then any other sport and more then any other form of entertainment in the world, but honestly, the last two off seasons have been two of the most retarded times in the history of professional sports. How can you not root for the underdogs in this kind of environment. GO BREWERS! GO DEVIL RAYS! GO PIRATES! You get the point.

Answer 2

The Toronto Blue Jays. They did not spend money on resigning Ted Lilly and bringing in Gil Meche. They were both too overpriced and not worth the money. They are at best 4th starters.

Instead of spending money on Lilly and Meche, the Jays used the extra cash to resign their franchise player Vernon Wells to a 7 year contract worth $126 million. Wells came at a good price, compared to Soriano and Carlos Lee, plus many people thought Wells could have made 20 million or more on the open market. The structure of the contract enables the Jays to save money for the first three years (details on website below).

Wells is a five tool player and is still only 28. The Jays invested properly in bringing back one of their franchise players and their 3 time gold glove centre fielder, whom is more talented than Soriano and Carlos Lee. Money Well Spent!

Frank Thomas was a good signing also. If healthy, Thomas can be one of the best hitters in the game. Look what he did in Oakland last year: 39HR, 114 RBI. Compared to what other hitters made on the market; the Thomas signing looks good: short term contract, at $8 million a season. Overall if Thomas stays healthy, its a good bang for the buck.

Answer 3

The guy who said none of the teams did is right. All the recent success of teams who build from farm systems and trades for minor league prospects shows that buying high priced talent has a way of backfiring. The Twins rotation in 2002 was Brad Radke, Eric Milton, Joe Mays, Rick Reed and whoever they could march out there after that. None were high priced free agents, Radke Milton and Mays were either Twins draft picks or minor league trades. In 2006 the rotation was Johan Santana , Brad Radke, Carlos Silva, with Francisco Liriano, Boof Bonser, Matt Garza, and Scott Baker all making starts, none of them were high priced free agents. The Twins won 4 of 5 division titles between 2002 and 2006 you can pretty much do the same with the starting lineup and bullpen. The high spending Yankees have not won a World Series since 2000. So teams are still being stoooopid with the money they have. (meant to spell stupid wrong).

Answer 4

Certainly not the Cubs or the Royals. Royals overpaid for Gil Meche. Cubs overpaid for Ted Lilly and Alfonso Soriano. Lilly and Meche are being paid more than Johan Santana. Soriano will be paid $18 million when he hits 37 years old. Don't get me wrong Soriano is a great player but this is an Arod contract and that killed the Rangers and this will kill the Cubs. The team that spent wisely was nobody.

Answer 5

If the Pirate vendors wanted to win, that they'd spend extra money. As referred to above, the Yankees have lost money the superb few years attempting to construct a winner. If each crew had an proprietor that wanted to win as a lot as Steinbrenner, baseball will be a a procedures more beneficial recreation.

Answer 6

The Cardinals have a pretty wise GM in Walt Jocketty and we haven't made any expensive, high-risk moves, so we have probably spent our money wisely. Also, don't say the Cardinals are cheap. We made almost the same exact offer to Schmidt as the Dodgers did, but he wanted to go to CA. We just don't offer 3 years/$21 mil to Marquis.

Answer 7

The Yankees,,For once we didn't go and BUY every single good Pitcher out there,We didn't spent 100mil on Zito,We traded Sheffield for two Tiger pitchers,Pettitte didn't cost much,in fact we got him 2mil cheaper then if we signed Lilly. we're now working on a setup man from the Pirates,but we might trade Milkey for him.The most money we spent was on that jap pitcher
and we got him pretty cheep compared to what Boston spent on there's.This is one of the better questions i'v seen in a while!!

Answer 8

By far the Cubs. They resigned Ramirez. They got to keep Kerry Woods for a bargain. He will do just fine coming out of the bull pen. Signed 40/40 man Soriano who was worth every penny. Went and got a very witty manager in Lou Piniella. May have over paid a tad for Ted Lilly but that's ok. Lilly is no longer pitching in the AL east so his numbers should look a lot better than years past.

Answer 9

The Devil Rays spent their money the best so far. The got a six time gold glove who has a .300 career batting average and has 188 home runs in his career. He has hit over .300 and had 30 Home runs in the past 3 years. They only payed 7.7 million over 3 years and a 4.5 million winning bid.

Answer 10

There is no question it is the Yankees.They signed a proven winner in Yankee Stadium.A player who knows how to pitch on the toughest stage in all of sports.He eats up innings and rarely misses a start.He is a lefty and a ticket to help you get Roger Clemens for the stetch drive the crafty Andy Pettitte.