What a great Tigers news day to start this blog off on...
In case you hadn't heard - Nate Robertson has been traded to the Florida Fish. Cant say I'm sad to see him go. Nate was never hated in my book, but he was never a favorite either... he just, well... he was just there...
I don't find this to be a bad deal, nor a good one. If the guy was going to be unhappy being a relief pitcher (which rumor has it where he was going to end up this season) than maybe it was in the best interest of everyone involved.
The most amazing part of the story is that in return for Mr. Robertson, the Tigers are getting (yet another) situational left handed pitcher who has spent most of his baseball life in the single A and AA leagues - uh... what? Mr Voss, we may not know you, but we are very familiar with your type here in the D...
Financially this is a slide rule in the accounting ledger - Nate was under contract for $10 million (yeah, insert gasp here) and the Marlins are only picking up roughly $400,000 of that (league minimum - what they would have paid this Voss kid if he wound up playing in the big dance). That means the Tigers are anting up $9.6 million to the Marlins so they can pay Nate's salary... what!!! Well - I guess we were going to pay him anyway so we might as well get something out of the deal, regardless if we see this Voss guy pitch or not...
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