Tag Archives: Derek Jeter

What Can You Get For $140 Million?: Shortstop

I’m happy that the Cubs payroll is among the highest in baseball.  The Cubs are a large market team with among the highest revenue streams in all of the sport.  Their payroll should be among the highest. The problem is that on the surface, it doesn’t look to me like the Cubs roster stacks up [...]

Cubs Interested in Curtis Granderson

The Detroit Tigers need to shed payroll going into the 2010 season which Joel Sherman of the New York Post says could make Tigers’ center fielder Curtis Granderson available for trade.  Granderson, who had two very good years in 2007 and 2008, had a down year offensively in 2009.  He hit .249/.327/.453 in 631 ABs.  [...]