2006-12-29 17:13:04 · 28 answers · asked by Papa[s]murF 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
No. But he has the most dynamic agent at work for him. Scott Boras is the same guy that got A-Rod his huge contract with Texas. If a team is dumb enough to way over pay, you can't blame Zito for taking it.
2006-12-29 17:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not 126 mil, but I think 7 years is fine.
I only think the pitchers that are worth $18,000,000 anually over 7 years are Johan Santana, Carlos Zambrano, and Chris Carpenter. I think that people will see the likes of Jake Peavy, Roy Halladay, and Ben Sheets (when his extension is up) get exorbitant contracts because of Zito. Not to mention Brandon Webb.
Obviously, he is not worth 126 million dollars, but Scott Boras has pulled off miracles before.
2006-12-30 05:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by vinsanity7000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, anyone that makes more than 15 million a year is greedy and only maybe 10 players should be payed over 10 million, and Zito is not even on that list. All it does is make us the fans pay more at the box, and for the stuff.
I'm a Cubs fan and think it is great we have everybody but I do not think paying that much will help.
2006-12-30 00:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by frogyspond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. No pitcher is worth that much. Zito is declining. The Giants didn't even need him that much and they probably won't win a World Series anytime soon. They already had a good batch of starters. He was much better suited for the Mets and he passed up a great opportunity. He said on ESPN that the park being beautiful and the Giants commitment to winning was the reason for going there but it had to be the 126 million and just that.
2006-12-29 17:20:57 · answer #4 · answered by jjc92787 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No pitcher is worth that much unless they can win at least 17 games and loose less than 4 or 5. I am a Blue Jays fan and I wouldn't want the Jays to put that kinda money on resigning Roy Halladay. But the person who brought up Santana. You have to remember that YES Santana is a good pitcher but he does seem to struggle early in a season and even thought he wins alot he still get quite a bit of losses.
2006-12-30 11:19:20 · answer #5 · answered by Smooth Move EX-LAX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody is worth that kind of money - NOBODY!!! Of course if he pitches like the Zito of old and wins 20 games, he'll be worth a lot, but not that kind of dough. I like Zito and hope he wins 25 games which he could do playing in the National League West which isn't exactly a strong division. One thing is certain - he's worth more than they're paying Barry "Steroids" Bonds.
2006-12-30 05:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, pitchers with deals over four years usually have a history of getting hurt and it turns out that Alfonso Soriano was cheaper than barry zito and the cubs have soriano for his eighth year for only 3 million if you include the savings they will have (Soriano 17M, Zito 18M)
2006-12-30 05:05:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Young, lefty, superstar. It's about time the people who control the game got nice large wages. I think he's definately worth it. The money was obviously avaibable. Why not take a great pitcher like Zito?
2006-12-29 18:32:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No he's not relatively worth it over the size of his settlement. he will pitch extra helpful interior the national League yet he's suseptible to harm because of the fact of his extreme pitch counts. there is benefit in signing Zito that it relatively is an attempt to tutor destiny loose brokers that the Giants try to win after Bonds retires. If the Giants are actually not a minimum of semi-competative contained in here few years then they are able to have difficulty attracting destiny good gamers. Even this 365 days, the Giants might desire to no longer persuade Pierre and Gonzalez to sign with them instead of the Dodgers. the only way they have been able to sign Zito became to extremely overbid the Mets with the aid of $40 8 million who appeared to be the only different extreme team. it relatively is going to be harder and harder to allure to premire gamers the extra the Giants proceed to slip farther down interior the standings. The Giants farm gadget is virtually depleted and had in basic terms one participant indexed interior the precise 50 possibilities on the respectable minor league website. What makes it worse is that in the event that they p.c. to apply Lincecum as a reliever, which might cut back his impact. regrettably the Giants traded away Liriano, Bonzer and Nathan who alongside with Cain and Lowry might have made the extra youthful Giants pitching team the perfect in baseball. additionally regrettably this week for Giants followers, Baseball united states ranked the Dodgers (#2), Rockies (#3) and Diamondbacks (#4)as 3 of the precise 4 minor league companies. So interior the arrival years, those 3 communities must be loaded. This did no longer comprise the Padres who did win the branch final 365 days. If the Giants can no longer improve their very own superstar gamers which curiously like the farm gadget can no longer, and if the Giants can no longer allure to them as loose brokers as they could no longer try this 365 days, they are going to be in massive difficulty. Zito's signing is a drop in a bucket in direction of those targets. here is what Rob Neyer had to assert approximately Zito on ESPN: "the only subject this deal does is make the Giants seem ridiculous. Granted, Zito's era gets a enhance from the national League and the Giants' homestead ballpark. And this one isn't as dumb because of the fact the Mike Hampton manage the Rockies. yet based on the info to hand, this looks to me like between the dumber loose-agent signings ever. Zito merely isn't terrific."
2016-11-25 00:18:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For 7 Years I Think That's Reasonable.
The Mets Didn't Get Him Cause They Didn't Want To Spend The MONEY.
2006-12-30 02:56:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋