Do it. He’s the anchor of this pitching staff. I think Santana’s great but needs someone else to be the big dog on this staff to do his best, and he’s an example of how to lead a pitching staff. I suppose you could jsut pick up the option, but I’d hope the Angels would renegotiate for at least another 3-4 years.

consistency – he has it.

The Angels need to keep him. NEED TO.

One thing I love about this team is that there are really no big egos, yet they still manage to produce and be an amazing team.

The contract Sabathia signs is going to be huge for Lackey. With the way FA pitching has been going, he’s going to want 5 or 6 years at least $15 million per. That’s a lot of cash for one pitcher. I think Lackey will be good for awhile, but he’s already lost some of his fastball and his peripherals took a hit last year.

With Santana, Saunders, and Weaver, that’s a decent 1-2-3 right there, with Adenhart hopefully figuring in as well. I like John, but I’m just not sure about a huge extension.

Pick up his option this year and see what he wants. If you’re going to sign him to an extension, do it now, before Sabathia breaks someone’s checkbook.

say, 6 years (including 2009, so in effect a five-year extension), maybe $70 million.

Decisions Decisions Decisions.

Just sign everyone, raise than ticket prices and consession prices to pay for their salaries. Might as well just get it over with. It’s not like prices aren’t going up every damn year anyways. Eventually (which is practically happening now) the die-hard fan with or without a family can hardly afford to go to a game, unless you’re not afraid of heights and getting a nose bleed.

Wait, I have an idea ! We can sell seats on the field level and RF Pavilion MVP by thirds of an game (3innings at a time) to allow the “Common Fan” the opportunity to view some of the game.

Sarcasm

Hope he’s cooled off from the playoffs.

Which means get him some runs in ’09, then re-sign him.

But don’t pay him for year 5.

Like his first two playoff appearances

and sign him to an extensionnow, but for no more than 15 mil per year. If he wants more than that, then pick up his option for next year, and take the chance that you can get him to sign for that much after next year.

John has said that he needs the Angels to improve the offense before he thinks about resigning. So I think you pick up his option and try and sign as many good position players as you need. Stay away from Sabathia!!!! Then this year try and work out a long term deal with Lackey.

 don’t let money be the reason we lose him, pay him what he deserves. he could easily have won both DS games. he is clutch.

Big John is the Mark Teixeira of the pitching staff. we need Tex as the future centerpiece of our offense, and Lackey NEEDS to be the centerpiece of this pitching staff, no questions asked.

6 years @ 13-14 mil a year with incentives

…5/75 tops though. If not, exercise the option, hope for less bloody results next year, and re-sign him then, although it will likely cost more depending on the type of year he has.

This assumes we don’t sign CC. I would imagine some weird chemistry (read: not good) between Big John the leader, and a superstar like CC.

please

A couple things to take note. Lack was injured early on. Nothing too serious but should be noted. Second, he gave up a lot of long ball this season. I dont have the stats but I am pretty sure more than he ever has.

That being said, I still think we should definitely re-sign him. Despite these few drawbacks from this season, the guy started off amazing and still continued to dominate for the most part. Plus, I remember on more than one occasion him going to the distance and getting very little run support and ended up with an Loss when his performance was definitely WIN material.

I have total confidence that Lack will continue to dominate for years to come. We should remember the drawbacks of this season though and I dont think it would be totally unwise to worry at least a tiny bit about those things continuing to plague him in the next few years when determining what we re-sign him for. However, as I stated early…Lack is all Halo…lets keep it that way.

4/60. He’s worth it. He gave a little more long ball this year, but hes been great since he’s been here. I’d rather not see Lackey on the bump at the Big A in an away jersey because he’s definitely one of those guys you just dont wanna face.

He is the same every year. A top 1-10 #1. Not easy to come by. AND I think he wants to be here. Should save us some money if he does.

I think definitely need him back next year he still had a fantastic year even after missing the better part of two months! And he was a beast in the playoffs… if i am tony r. the first thing i do the next time i have lunch with arte is to liquify his stock market portfolio (which is pretty much guaranteed to be doing but losing him money right now) and make sure we have enough money to sign tex and lackey to whatever they need. these guys are the future of our veterans. We have always been a team filled with young talent (case and point 2002) but without wise veterans in the dugout they are sure to collapse. Tex and John will provide that solid veteran presence for years to come (i know tex is still young but soon enough he will be the core of this team).

Loved seeing ASU get pounded by the men of troy!

Go Halos Forever!

try to extend, plain and simple!

A deal right now shows John how serious the Angels are about keeping him as the ace of the rotation for the next few years.