Mike Leake to Cardinals (5 years/80 million)

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http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/12/st-louis-cardinals-sign-mike-leake.html

[3and2Fastball]

I have no doubt he'll put up a 2.95 ERA season with the Cardinals

 

wish that was in blue

[And That]

Leake was the one FA pitcher I was kind of hoping the Brewers would have been in on. Apparently not.

 

Probably good move for the Cardinals, and for the Brewers if it means a few more losses in the next couple of seasons.

[NievesNoNO]

I was just thinking the same thing. I have no doubt the Cardinals will make that work somehow. He'll keep throwing ground balls, they'll figure out a tweak that ups his K rate a bit and he'll go on to win 15 games a year until he's a FA again.

[brwrsfan]

I was just thinking the same thing. I have no doubt the Cardinals will make that work somehow. He'll keep throwing ground balls, they'll figure out a tweak that ups his K rate a bit and he'll go on to win 15 games a year until he's a FA again.

 

THEN the Brewers will sign him and watch him slowly decline until the wheels completely fall off .

[pacopete4]

Yeah this is a good signing for the Cardinals. Dangit.

[Thurston Fluff]

Or he could the the Cardinals next Kip Wells. They do not succeed in making every move work like so many here insinuate.

[Ennder]

I'd rather have leake than lackey so I feel they upgraded. Put up solid numbers in a hitters park while skipping most of the minors.

[jerichoholicninja]

Not a bad signing money wise but Leake really isn't anything special. He's a #3 on most, #2 on some teams. I don't think he makes them much better at all. He feels like the Brewers signing of Lohse, Suppan, and Wolf that they are really just paying for health/innings and not getting anything great in terms of results.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

That's a lot of purchasing power for Macy's. Maybe he'll use it in St. Louis.

[3and2Fastball]

I was just thinking the same thing. I have no doubt the Cardinals will make that work somehow. He'll keep throwing ground balls, they'll figure out a tweak that ups his K rate a bit and he'll go on to win 15 games a year until he's a FA again.

 

THEN the Brewers will sign him and watch him slowly decline until the wheels completely fall off .

 

 

No worries. Doug Melvin has retired

[hawing]

That's a lot of purchasing power for Macy's. Maybe he'll use it in St. Louis.

I've been waiting for someone to say the Cardinals got a real steal in Leake. Maybe that's played out by now?

[stalton]

That's a lot of purchasing power for Macy's. Maybe he'll use it in St. Louis.

I've been waiting for someone to say the Cardinals got a real steal in Leake. Maybe that's played out by now?

 

I heard part of the contract was that the cards would make him the beneficiary of the new shirt off their back promotion.

[Ennder]

Not a bad signing money wise but Leake really isn't anything special. He's a #3 on most, #2 on some teams. I don't think he makes them much better at all. He feels like the Brewers signing of Lohse, Suppan, and Wolf that they are really just paying for health/innings and not getting anything great in terms of results.

 

A #2 or #3 for that contract is a great deal. Suppan was just an awful deal and we all knew it the moment it was signed. Lohse would have been fine if he was as young as Leake was when we signed him, age caught up with him which is what everyone worried about. Wolf was more of a hope he is healthy style risk.

[logan82]

Loshe would have been a good signing around 2008 - 2011. The big problem with the Lohse signing was we were a mediocre team more than one pitcher away.

 

Wolf wasn't a terrible signing. It didn't cost us a pick and made us better in 2011. It was enough to push us into the playoffs.

[StearnsFTW]

I don't see how this is a good signing. $80MM for the very definition of an average pitcher. Color me unimpressed. I think it's pretty bad for St. Louis actually.

[jerichoholicninja]

I don't see how this is a good signing. $80MM for the very definition of an average pitcher. Color me unimpressed. I think it's pretty bad for St. Louis actually.

 

Leake is getting market value. Pitching is expensive.

[MrTPlush]

Mike Leake is a solid pitcher and is entering his 28 year old season. That is going to cost some money.

[craigharmann]

Mike Leake is a solid pitcher and is entering his 28 year old season. That is going to cost some money.

 

But, will it be enough to keep him from getting the "hometown discount" from local STL establishments?

[brewcrewdue80]

I was just thinking the same thing. I have no doubt the Cardinals will make that work somehow. He'll keep throwing ground balls, they'll figure out a tweak that ups his K rate a bit and he'll go on to win 15 games a year until he's a FA again.

 

"tweak that ups his Krate"

The tweak is Molina getting 1-2inches off the plate called strikes.

[jerichoholicninja]

Mike Leake is a solid pitcher and is entering his 28 year old season. That is going to cost some money.

 

But, will it be enough to keep him from getting the "hometown discount" from local STL establishments?

 

What are all these references about? There have been a few in this thread.

[jjkoestler]

Mike Leake is a solid pitcher and is entering his 28 year old season. That is going to cost some money.

 

But, will it be enough to keep him from getting the "hometown discount" from local STL establishments?

 

What are all these references about? There have been a few in this thread.

 

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/17944298/

[jerichoholicninja]

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/17944298/

 

Well, jeez, with a history like that how can the Cards sign him in good conscience? That was a totally unclassy act. Molinia and Peralta are going to have to give him some lessons in how to be a good, upstanding citizen and role model for the children of Cardinal nation.

[TooLiveBrew]

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/17944298/

 

Well, jeez, with a history like that how can the Cards sign him in good conscience? That was a totally unclassy act. Molinia and Peralta are going to have to give him some lessons in how to be a good, upstanding citizen and role model for the children of Cardinal nation.

Most notably, Chris Carpenter's