I was living in the Bay Area when Giants ace Jason Schmidt defected to the LA Dodgers before the 2007 season for $47 million over three years.
Meanwhile the Giants drafted Tim Alderson and Jackson Williams as compensation for Schmidt.
Williams is a catcher for the Giants AA team in Connecticut. He can’t hit and doesn’t have much power.
Meanwhile Alderson, a starting pitcher, is moving his way up the system after winning 13 games in San Jose last year.
All he needs to do is get to the bigs and win 3 games and he’ll top Jason Schmidt.
And oh yeah, do it for less than $47 million.article_url = location.href;article_title = document.title;var iap=new Image(1,1);iap.src=’http://www.rootzoo.com/news_pulse/auto_post/31537/be85873d3eb0bdd800228eb38e26a1ce?title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&link=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href);