↵The man the Arizona Diamondbacks are paying $11 million this year in the final year of a three-year deal is going to star for a team sponsored by Dutch Goose, a burger and beer pub in Menlo Park, Calif. This is going to be a blast,” he said. “Playing with my buddies. I can’t wait for my first hit. I’m going to ask for the ball.”
-- Steve Gilbert, MLB.com
Eric Byrnes = Best-Paid Beer League Softball Player Ever
↵↵With all due respect to Byrnes, it’s the best place for him. Arizona decided it would be better off without Byrnes, even though paying him eight figures this season. He then tried to catch on with the Mariners, but batted less than .100, including what Jim Caple described as “the worst at-bat in major league history,” before cycling out of the clubhouse.
↵Eric also parted ways with his winter-ball team, Tigres del Licey in the Dominican Republic, giving him a rare trifecta of being released by teams from three different leagues, in barely four months. “I think this is the end,” he told MLB.com. “I can look myself in the mirror and know that I gave it my all. I’m proud of that.” Arizona fans may beg to differ, given that over the three year, $30m contract extension signed in mid-2007, Byrnes hit just .210, with an OPS+ of 61.
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