{"id":5122,"date":"2012-11-13T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2012-11-13T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:35:16","slug":"setting-the-market-for-sean-burnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Market for Sean Burnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5125\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/BurnettSean-Winslow-Townson-Getty-images-via-bleacherreport.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5125\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5125\" title=\"BurnettSean Winslow Townson Getty images via bleacherreport.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/BurnettSean-Winslow-Townson-Getty-images-via-bleacherreport.com_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The price of lefty relievers like Sean Burnett has gone up.  Photo Winslow Townson\/Getty images via bleacherreport.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Word came down yesterday that the Giants have re-signed their own lefty specialist <strong>Jeremy Affeldt<\/strong> to an expected\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hardballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2012\/11\/12\/jeremy-affeldts-deal-with-giants-expected-to-be-18-million\/\">3 year, $18M deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder <strong>Sean Burnett<\/strong> declined his side of the 2013 mutual option (for $3.5M) he had in his last contract. \u00a0Because clearly, if Affeldt is getting a $6M AAV contract at the age of 33 after a 3 year stint with San Francisco in which he posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/affelje01.shtml\">3.09 ERA, 1.32 whip and a 117 ERA+<\/a> over 175 IP in 187 games, then Burnett should be in line for even more.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett&#8217;s numbers over the last 3 years: \u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burnese01.shtml\">2.76 ERA, 1.231 whip, 144 ERA+<\/a> and throwing 176 1\/3 innings. \u00a0And he&#8217;s only 29.<\/p>\n<p>So, if Burnett is younger, has better numbers across the board in nearly identical IPs but throwing in much more of a hitters park than Affeldt does in San Francisco, what can we expect for Burnett&#8217;s contract demands now? \u00a010% more than what Affeldt got? \u00a020% more? \u00a0And, more importantly, will the Nats match it and spend $6-$7M\/year on a left-handed specialist?<\/p>\n<p>Even more to the point, if this is the market for relievers &#8230; perhaps this team should think twice before non-tendering someone like <strong>Tom Gorzelanny<\/strong>, who may be a bargain at something close to his 2012 $3M\/year salary.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think one thing is clear; there&#8217;s going to be some serious money spent this off-season on players that one may not think are really that worth it. \u00a0Will the Nationals jump in and spend the money they&#8217;ll need to in order to compete?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word came down yesterday that the Giants have re-signed their own lefty specialist Jeremy Affeldt to an expected\u00a03 year, $18M deal. No wonder Sean Burnett declined his side of the 2013 mutual option (for $3.5M) he had in his last contract. \u00a0Because clearly, if Affeldt is getting a $6M AAV contract at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[539,108,176],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-jeremy-affeldt","tag-sean-burnett","tag-tom-gorzelanny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}