5 minutes ago, bidding for Daisuke Matsuzaka’s posting rights officially ended. MLB will forward the amount of the winning bid to Seibu, who has 4 days to decide whether or not to accept it. At that point, the winning team is announced and they can begin to negotiate with Matsuzaka’s agent, Scott Boras.
In the comments, feel free to guess the amount of the winning bid and the team that won. Our predictions after the break:
Winning bid: $27 million
Winning team: New York Yankees
What says you?
November 8, 2006 at 6:20 pm |
I predicted the same, only because I hope he becomes a Yankee and decided $27 million would be neat as in hoping he leads to championship #27. Still really afraid of the Mets, though.
November 8, 2006 at 6:50 pm |
$22.5 million, Yankees
November 9, 2006 at 8:49 am |
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays. $52 million dollars and 1 cent.
November 9, 2006 at 9:11 am |
This isn’t E-bay, George…
November 9, 2006 at 5:51 pm |
Yankees $24M
November 9, 2006 at 6:45 pm |
$21.7M, Texas Rangers. Someone’s got to go away from the Yankees. I’ll be the first.
November 9, 2006 at 7:09 pm |
$26M, Yankees
November 9, 2006 at 7:15 pm |
$35M, Texas Rangers.
I hope this isn’t going by the “Showcase Showdown” rules.
November 9, 2006 at 7:23 pm |
Yankees, $22M
November 9, 2006 at 7:23 pm |
I suppose levski’s vote on the Primer thread counts as the token “$1, Bob!” vote… I’ll paste it in here.
November 9, 2006 at 10:36 pm |
One billion dollars.
November 10, 2006 at 1:18 am |
$31.526 million by the Yankees.
November 11, 2006 at 5:36 am |
$14.5 million, Cleveland Indians.
This is probably wishful thinking on my part, but it is conjecture based on a report from the New Jersey Star-Ledger(down near the bottom of the page) that Seibu supposedly has been disappointed by the bids’ being much lower than expected.
November 14, 2006 at 8:53 pm |
[...] A few days ago, this blog took your predictions for who would win the rights to Daisuke Matsuzaka. As ESPN reported tonight, the Red Sox won his rights for a whopping $51.1 million. That means the winner of our contest was… no one! That’s right, no one predicted that the Red Sox would outbid everyone. The closest prediction in terms of dollars goes to “George Steinbrenner“, who “predicted” the Devil Rays would win the auction with a bid of $52,000,000.01. George, I’m not sure if you were serious, but that’s deadly accurate (sort of). [...]