Cliff Lee was just offered a seven-year contract by the New York Yankees. This comes on the heels of this morning’s announcement that the Boston Red Sox had nabbed Carl Crawford.
So it seems it is good to be a fan of baseball in the East. It really is trying for us in the rest of the country. But my qualm is that the Yankees are throwing money down the tubes because Cliff Lee will never live up to his big contract.
How could anyone? No one can meet the standards of a contract that is surely to be more than their original $140 million offer.
Here are the reason why Cliff Lee is not worth the money.