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Jorge Posada agrees to a 4 year, 52 million dollar deal
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:41 am
by cmaff051
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... nkees.html
Jorge Posada, the 36-year-old free agent catcher, will remain a Yankee, sources familiar with the negotiations told the Daily News Monday night.
After being schmoozed by Mets general manager Omar Minaya Monday afternoon during a lengthy lunch at Le Cirque, Posada and his agents finally received the offer from the Yankees they had been hoping for all along.
The Yankees offered Posada a four-year, $52 million contract - the same deal they gave both Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui two years ago - to remain in pinstripes. The deal will become official pending a physicial and final contract language being ironed out.
Not happy that it's 4 years, but what were we going to do? Atleast we didn't go to 5. I'm glad he's back though. We'll have a bunch of money coming off the books soon, this contract shouldn't be a problem.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:52 am
by Pharmcat
first right step in the right direction
next, get Mo back
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:53 am
by rappa
4years isn't bad. I figure he'll be able to catch for another 2+ and then mentor one of the young guns and stay as a DH. Hopefully Mo comes back because if not, our closer is kyle farnsworth lol
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:55 am
by Pharmcat
4 yrs is too much
but i think its hard to complain given the weak C market
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:56 am
by cmaff051
The Kandi Man Rocks wrote:first right step in the right direction
next, get Mo back
I wouldn't rule out Mo signing within the next hour.
The Yankees moved off their demands for Posada (i.e 3 years) and they might do the same thing for Mariano.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:00 am
by Pharmcat
cmaff051 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I wouldn't rule out Mo signing within the next hour.
The Yankees moved off their demands for Posada (i.e 3 years) and they might do the same thing for Mariano.
yea i agree.....i dont think the Yanks could afford to lose Posada...unless Cash was willing to give up a stud prospect to trade for a player like Salty (assuming rangers would even dangle him)
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:23 am
by VinnyTheMick
I'm sure that Mo will resign, they seemed mad close to signing last week.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:28 am
by VinnyTheMick
Its funny, if we just extended him in SP like he wanted we would have paid A LOT less. I'm not saying I disagreed with the move back then, just pointing it out.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:35 am
by VinnyTheMick
It has been confirmed. It
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:40 am
by nykgeneralmanager
VinnyTheMick wrote:Its funny, if we just extended him in SP like he wanted we would have paid A LOT less. I'm not saying I disagreed with the move back then, just pointing it out.
Yeah thats a good point, pretty ironic. If we extended him, it most likely would've been just a 3 year extension.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:42 am
by TKF
hey, posada gets to retire a yank and hopefully with another ring or two.... he deserves it, now time to lock mo up....
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:34 am
by Jitpal
Too much, I would have let him walk for that much. I hope the contract has a clause that the 4th year only kicks in if he catches X number of games. -Jitpal
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:29 am
by PR07
This is good news. If we have a bad contract for a season, that's fine. We've been down that road before, and we simply cannot afford to lose Jorge at this time...both for his offensive production and clubhouse influence...as well as for damage control.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:39 pm
by VinnyTheMick
Jitpal wrote:Too much, I would have let him walk for that much. I hope the contract has a clause that the 4th year only kicks in if he catches X number of games. -Jitpal
keep dreamin'
In the end, we have overpaid for players that ended up being DH's. In Posada's 4th year, he can do the same.
One year of bad production is better than 3 years of a srcub catcher & thats why I am not as mad about the 4th year as other people.