Phillies Sign Delmon Young
Via Paul White -
The Philadelphia Phillies obviously weren’t as concerned about Delmon Young’s ability to play the outfield as his previous employers.
The former Detroit outfielder and mostly DH signed a one-year, $750,000 contract with the Phillies today. The contract also includes undisclosed performance incentives.
“Delmon is an experienced major league bat who will add some depth to our relatively inexperienced outfield and another layer of competition for playing time there as well,” said general manager Ruben Amaro in a statement released by the club.
Average hitter, at best. Terrible fielder, at best. And, not the nicest person in the world, by any means. But, $750,000 ain’t that much more than the big league minimum.
If he behaves, hits like he normally does, and they have a defensive caddy for him, the ROI here could be pretty good.
We’ll see how much his defense drags down his offensive value. But, definitely, for $750K, it has the potential to provide a lot of surplus value for the Phillies.
Yep. And if he acts up, for whatever reason, he gets cut.
Yeah I thought the same thing, too. That’s cheap. Low risk, high reward. Why can’t our GM make signings like that?
What is the minimum now??
BOHAN wrote:
League minimum is $490,000.
Garcia wrote:
To be fair, he has. Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia provided roughly two wins above replacement for a combined $2.4M in 2011. Raul Ibanez was only a replacement-level player — mainly because he played TOO much and his defensive value dragged down the contributions he made with the bat — but was paid $1.1M in 2012.