Westbrook Signs!

Looks like a three-year extension totaling $33 million, with some of the dollars front-loaded into Jake's 2007 salary. This, to me, is win-win. Jake gets paid on a level with the crazy deal the Royals gave Gil Meche, and the Indians lock up a #2/#3 starter. It sounds like both sides just wanted to get this done, and they both made the appropriate concessions to get to yes.

Westbrook doesn't set the world on fire, but he's a legit and consistent major league pitcher. Start-in and start-out, he keeps you in games. <knock wood>And he stays healthy, too.</knock wood> Westbrook is the Charlie Nagy of the "oughts" Indians. He's the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Oven of the Indians' Pitchin' Kitchen: "set it and forget it through 2010.

I suppose I could talk about what this means for the Sabathia negotiations — based on Westie's paycheck, clearly C.C. is entitled to something north of $13 or $14 million — but right now let's just celebrate the fact that we'll have Jake at the Jake for the next four seasons.