Miguel Tejera

I was waiting to do this article until I got comment from Squeeky, however he has gone without comment for over a week now. Also if I wait any longer this article might not be relevant any more. So, here we go.

Miguel Tejera has gone for a whoping 22.5 million dollars per year this year. By far that is our most expensive free agent of the year. From what I can tell there were two serious bidders for him. Seattle Mariners and Syracuse Barge Canals were the two that were pursing him at all cost, well sort of at all costs. The Seattle Marineers drew the line at $21 million per year. Which was $20 million per year for five years and a $5 million dollar bonus.

Miguel Tejera has never received more than $7.5 million per year. After speaking with his former owner, Starbuckdc, in Owatta, he is sick over not renewing Miguel Tejera's contract. Apparently the Ottawa Oemba's had the opportunity to get a hometown discount at the price of $7.5 million per year. That is some hometown discount, $15 million per year. At 19 wins over the last two years, and a sub 3.00 ERA each year that is a great price in this reporters opinion. Ottawa definiately screwed the pooch on Miguel Tejera by letting him hit the free agent market. Ottawa's sports radio hosts must be up in arms. I can only imagine they are calling for Starbuckdc's head. What makes this worse is Miguel Tejera's OAV over the last two years were .229 and .220 respectively. Also he had a mere .275 for OBP last year. Again, locking him up at $7.5 million per year should have been one of the easiest decisions that the Ottawa Oemba's had this year. However they chose to part with him, and the Ottawa sports radio show hosts now have something new to yell about over the radio. I think that Ottawa's GM was being kind and throwing them a bone, as they don't really have much to complain about.

After hitting the free agent market, Miguel Tejera, went for a staggering $22.5 million per year for 5 years. After reaching em_knaps for comment, he claims that he drew the line at $21 million per year, and had serious reservations about offering him that. Seattle's GM states that no player is worth more than $20 million per year and that no player can ever live up to those expectations. He further points to Miguel Tejera's age. He is 28 at the writting of this article. Em_knaps claims that his best two years will be the last two, with this year possibly matching them and maybe next year. However he claims that from then on he will be on the decline. The Seattle GM states that he was basically paying for 2, possibly 3 years with the other two being neccesary to sign him. Em_knaps said he had an escape clause in the contract for the 5th year, so when he inevitably declined, he could cut his losses at that point. Here's hoping Squeekyethan did the same thing.

Squeekyethan, Syracuse Canal's GM paid $22.5 million per year for 5 years for Miguel Tejera. That is $20 million per year for 5 years and a $10 million bonus. The most that the GM's can offer a player per year is $20 million. So that leaves a $2.5 million descrepancy. Multiply that over 5 years and that gives us $10 million. Which would be the bonus offered to Miguel Tejera for year one. Basically Squeekyethan believes that Miguel Tejera is worth $30 million for the first year. If Miguel Tejera could up his win total by one, that would be 20 wins. At 20 wins per season, Syracuse's GM would have paid $1.125 million per win. At 19 wins the pay rate would be roughly $1.18 million per win. If Miguel Tejera does decline in year 4 and 5, Syracuse's GM would not be able to rid himself of the contract until possibly year 5 and that is only if he put in a buyout clause. Lets see down the road a little bit. In year 4 of this monstrous contract, Miguel Tejera would be 31 and possibly on the decline. Lets say he manages still to get 15 wins at $22.5 million per year. That is $1.5 million per win. Say he totally falls off and only wins 10 games, that is $2.25 million per win.

Here is to hoping that Miguel Tejera Syracuse's GM thought this contract out, and hopefully has a buyout clause for year 5 in case his player starts to regress back to his year 8 totals of 4.07 ERA with a 1.30 WHIP.

This reporter along with the rest of the league is still awaiting comment from Syracuse's GM. Maybe he is waiting for the season to speak for itself, however for this to work out the 4 years, possibly 5 years would have to speak for itself.