Carlos Lee Refuses Trade to Dodgers, Traded to the Marlins

[Chrispy]

Buster_ESPN
Sources: The Marlins are trading Matt Dominguez and P Rob Rasmussen for Carlos Lee.

zacharylevine
Carlos Lee's locker is empty.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Seriously, fuck both of these loons:



Florida isn't even in the top 25. Nice of ESPN to produce made up shit like this.

Florida is 3rd biggest east of the Mississippi and 10th in the nation. At one point Florida was actually the biggest cattle producing state IIRC.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

How does Carlos Lee help the Marlins?

Unless they are converting him to a reliever, I have no idea.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

How does Carlos Lee help the Marlins?

.194/.240/.283

 

Gaby Sanchez

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Unless they are converting him to a reliever, I have no idea.

.286/.336/.412

 

Carlos Lee

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Lee's power is gone, but he's a much better offensive player than Sanchez, who has been a black hole and has spent time in AAA.

The Brett Wallace era v2.0 is back in full effect in H-town.

 

[NAHSTE]

.286/.336/.412

 

Carlos Lee

Yes, Lee is empirically a better player than Gaby Sanchez. I still don't get the impetus to make a move for a team that currently has a 1% probability of making the playoffs.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

4.76/0.9

 

Marlins bullpen ERA and WAR

 

2nd worst ERA and 21st WAR

 

I don't think Carlos Lee will help with that

 

:dd:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Yes, Lee is empirically a better player than Gaby Sanchez. I still don't get the impetus to make a move for a team that currently has a 1% probability of making the playoffs.

Ozzie Guillen does not fold the fuckin tent, you got it?

 

[Goober]

Florida is 3rd biggest east of the Mississippi and 10th in the nation. At one point Florida was actually the biggest cattle producing state IIRC.

No. They're 26th. 9th east of the Mississippi.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0873.pdf

 

[RyanLeaf16]

No. They're 26th. 9th east of the Mississippi.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0873.pdf

I'm not trying to hijack the thread and go back and forth with you. However, the link you provided does not list the 10 states in any specific order and nowhere does it say that Florida is 26th in the country and 9th of the Mississippi. The only information that I could find that corroborates that number is from 2004. The rankings all depend on what type of production you are looking for and the link you provided shows a number of different rankings for beef production, value, milk production, etc. For example, if you measure the number of cattle per unit of land the top three states are: Missouri, Oklahoma and Kentucky. Most recent numbers I found through the USDA is that Florida ranks 11th in total number of cattle. 12th in the nation for number of beef cattle. Florida also has 7 of the nations largest calf/cattle ranches. This was all per the USDA site.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

It's the same contract. Nobody is asking him to tear it up. His state income tax would increase, for like three months, if he accepted the trade. The guy is making $18.5M this year, has already made nearly $100M on his current contract, and he is balking over what would amount to like $10k, if that.

He'd rather lose and fight with the Cubs for last place, rather than sacrifice something in the neighborhood of $10,000, which the Dodgers were willing to help compensate him for anyway, and a chance to play in the postseason.

Accepted a trade to a non-state income tax state...

10K more in his pocket, ya commy bastard.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

.194/.240/.283

 

Gaby Sanchez

Right there is your answer.

Gaby is struggling this season. They sent him down once...didn't get it together once he got the call back up...was only a matter of time until the Marlins got another 1B.