NEW ORLEANS -- The Detroit Tigers kept up their free-agent spending Saturday night, agreeing to a $6 million, two-year contract with outfielder Rondell White.

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wow, only 6 million. Good pickup for the Tigers.

techfan4 Wrote:wow, only 6 million. Good pickup for the Tigers.

Agreed. And they signed Vina to play second base the other day. They're quietly having a good offseason.

Just enough to avoid another 20 game loser. :D

techfan4 Wrote:wow, only 6 million. Good pickup for the Tigers.

only six million?! $3 million a year for White? Talk about overpaying. if they would've waited another month, they could've gotten him for 2 years at 4 million. he hit well last year, but he hit the best in kansas city, which is supposed to be an awesome hitter's park. The biggest reason i'm calling this overpaying, is because the guy hasn't played more than 137 games, since 1999 (and he only played 138 that season). Think of what he's going to hit in Comerica, one of the toughest hitters' parks in the league.

he's never had 90 RBI in a season. If you ask me, this is the typical example of a team with a lot of money who panicked and figured they needed to spend it all right now.

people say there's no competitive balance, but the bad teams aren't bad because of a lack of money, they're bad because they have terrible management.

The Tigers need all the help they can get. White's no star, but he's better than some of the scrubs they've been throwing out there.

GDawgs88 Wrote:The Tigers need all the help they can get. White's no star, but he's better than some of the scrubs they've been throwing out there.

he definitely is better than most of their guys, but that doesn't mean they should overpay for him, especially when no other team was banging down his door.

flyingswoosh Wrote:

techfan4 Wrote:wow, only 6 million. Good pickup for the Tigers.

only six million?! $3 million a year for White? Talk about overpaying. if they would've waited another month, they could've gotten him for 2 years at 4 million. he hit well last year, but he hit the best in kansas city, which is supposed to be an awesome hitter's park. The biggest reason i'm calling this overpaying, is because the guy hasn't played more than 137 games, since 1999 (and he only played 138 that season). Think of what he's going to hit in Comerica, one of the toughest hitters' parks in the league.

he's never had 90 RBI in a season. If you ask me, this is the typical example of a team with a lot of money who panicked and figured they needed to spend it all right now.

people say there's no competitive balance, but the bad teams aren't bad because of a lack of money, they're bad because they have terrible management.

another problem is that bad teams have trouble luring good free agents to their team,so in the end they have money to spend, with noone to spend it on, which is why they end up overpaying a lot of people

not being able to lure good free agents and overpaying for people, have nothing to do with eachother. The fact is that if the Tigers would've waited another month, they coud've saved 2 million. But as we've heard in many reports, the Tigers' GM is starting to panic about the team's future.