Big Number Of The Day

Cliff Lee's going to get paid really well this off-season. Sports Illustrated's John Heyman tells us that baseball will have no problem making Lee wealthy:

Baseball is doing very well, much better than the economy as whole, with revenues up again, to more than $7 billion, and attendance off only about one percent in 2010, despite the obvious boost in 2009 of two new parks in New York City. So competition for free agents could be fierce at the very top of the market -- especially in the cases of Cliff Lee and Carl Crawford, and perhaps only to a slightly lesser degree, Jayson Werth.

So basically, bring out the check book. MLB's doing pretty well.