Whats the deal?

One of the road blocks in getting Peavy was trading away our shortstop to get him.  Peavy likes to have defense behind him so he was a little worried.  Cannot blame him can you?  Well our backup shortstop was involved in one of the worst trades in recent memory to get the before said pitcher, which leads me to the next joy ride in this off season.

Remember Fookie.  We almost had him. Almost!  So it was said that Wren had a deal in place for three years and an option for a fourth.  Sound good?  Wren was in discussions with Mr. Kizner and then sent a signed term sheet.  Just about the equivalent of a handshake, a done deal.  Pat was exited, he called me I was exited.  Wait for it, Fookie is going to be wearing Dodger blue for the next few years and not the tomahawk.

So this pretty much puts me where I wanted to start this write-up.  How much can an agent get by with.  How much does the client know what is really going on?  Why exactly do we even call it free agency?  I asked a friend of mine who has seen and been around more baseball than I about such said questions and I still do not understand most of this crap.  I mean I get it but why.  Did you see the numbers on some of these guys?  Sabathia is getting like nine million or some unbelievable number before he even pitches.  By the way he can walk away from his seven year contract after the 2011 season.  So I really have to ask why do teams have to put up all this guaranteed money and guaranteed years to outbid other teams and then a it in their contract that they can walk early?  A ton of questions I know.