[TheNoodleMan]

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I don't think he qualifies as "very good"....The fact that his payroll is limitless offsets the fact that he went and spent like 100 million for Dice-K (way too much for the result)

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Given the current market for pitchers (the one where Zito gets 7 years for $126 million, Zambrano gets $92 million for 5 years and GilgaMeche gets $55 million for 5), getting Dice-K 6 years at $100 million seems like fair market value.

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also, when you consider that $51m will not count against the luxury tax (important for any large budget team), consider some incremental revenue from Japan, consider dice-k's age, and consider the fact he had to adjust to a 5 man rotation for the first time (he looked awfully good for a while this season), it's likely that this deal will end up looking very good

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There is also the added fact that if they didn't get him it was very likely that he'd end up on the Yankees.