Did The Tigers Overpay For Joaquin Benoit?

Keith Law thinks so. Or more accurately, Law thinks the Tigers were wrong to give Benoit a three-year deal… I truly thought major league GMs had moved beyond offering middle relievers three- or four-year deals. The history of those deals is so overwhelmingly negative, and the difficulty of predicting reliever health and performance so evident, the industry seemed to have wised up collectively, to the point where we wouldn’t see those contracts for non-closers…Benoit threw just 60 innings in 2010, none in 2009, and 45 in 2008. The odds of him staying healthy for the next three years when he threw 105 innings total in the last three — and when he has indicated his shoulder still bothered him during this “healthy” season — are incredibly low. On the other hand, maybe giving Benoit three years was a brilliant move. The Tigers are(...)Read the rest of Did The Tigers Overpay For Joaquin Benoit? (163 words) © The Professor for Rays Index,...