Jays have deal with Janssen

dagger · Post #1 » by **dagger** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:08 pm

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2012/02/1 ... y-janssen/

No terms yet.

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2012/02/1 ... y-janssen/

Michael Bradley · Post #2 » by **Michael Bradley** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:55 pm

Shi Davidi @ShiDavidi
Source: Blue Jays and reliever Casey Janssen nearing agreement on two-year deal plus option, will avoid arbitration.

BobbyBoy · Post #3 » by **BobbyBoy** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:27 pm

YAY! Janssen is my favourite jay in the bullpen.

g_greg · Post #4 » by **g_greg** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:50 pm

Nice.

Secueritae · Post #5 » by **Secueritae** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:20 pm

As long as he doesn't get thrown in as #5 starter like early last year, I'm happy with this deal.

satyr9 · Post #6 » by **satyr9** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:26 pm

Secueritae wrote:As long as he doesn't get thrown in as #5 starter like early last year, I'm happy with this deal.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of Litsch? Litsch started early in 2011. Janssen hasn't started a game for the Jays since 2009.

A guy at work said it was 2 plus an option, but I haven't seen that anywhere on my own yet so I don't have a link. I'm curious how much it's for if they got 2+option but I'm guessing it'll be significantly more than the 1.8-2.2 arby range.

dagger · Post #7 » by **dagger** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:33 pm

Deal sounds reasonable

$2.9m this season, $3.9m in 2013, club option for $4m in 2014 with no buyout.

hyper316 · Post #8 » by **hyper316** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:49 pm

it's $2.0 2012, $3.9 2013.

i think janssen will be traded away next offseason for something, same way Rzep was used in trade.

satyr9 · Post #9 » by **satyr9** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:51 pm

dagger wrote:Deal sounds reasonable

$2.9m this season, $3.9m in 2013, club option for $4m in 2014 with no buyout.

Very. I was guessing for 3 years of control it'd start 500k higher. Still, with the volatility of both reliever performance and the reliever FA market I can see why Janssen's happy too.

edit: if Hyper's right about 2.0, then it's even better. I don't know why he'd delay FA without getting a little something extra for this year though.

hyper316 · Post #10 » by **hyper316** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:57 pm

$2 mill was the mid point of the two numbers in arb. i guess they settled in the middle. I think it is a decent contract. Janssen is not a closer, so he wont get more than $5 mill in the market.

baulderdash77 · Post #11 » by **baulderdash77** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:27 am

2 years, $5.9 million with a club option for year 4 at $4 million- 2012 - 2 million, 2013 3.9 million.

It's a pretty fair deal for all sides. I think it's a safe bet that he'll get all 3 years out if he pitches anything like the last 2 years.

Kurtz · Post #12 » by **Kurtz** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:31 am

Good deal.

flatjacket1 · Post #13 » by **flatjacket1** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:22 am

Happy about the deal. It was worth millions to keep away from nasty arbitration's. Usually you just either tick off the player and save a couple bucks or lose a couple bucks and the player still is upset.

Why build a case to tell a player how terrible he is when you want him to pitch for you the ensuing year?

I think it was a great deal, if anything they payed market value and we have a nice option to keep him around if he is outperforming his contract. It's a beautiful thing.

Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.

tecumseh18 · Post #14 » by **tecumseh18** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:47 pm

flatjacket1 wrote:Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.

Just as long as the late innings start in the 7th, not in the 5th or 6th every damn game Romero doesn't start.

flatjacket1 · Post #15 » by **flatjacket1** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:58 pm

tecumseh18 wrote:
flatjacket1 wrote:Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.

Just as long as the late innings start in the 7th, not in the 5th or 6th every damn game Romero doesn't start.

Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)

Post #16 » by **Nolan** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:02 pm

Its hard not to like the deal.

kwamebargnani · Post #17 » by **kwamebargnani** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:58 am

flatjacket1 wrote:Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)

Watching Jo-Jo Reyes getting beat up every inning was mind boggling. Cecil better not do the same this year.

flatjacket1 · Post #18 » by **flatjacket1** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:44 pm

kwamebargnani wrote:
flatjacket1 wrote:Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)

Watching Jo-Jo Reyes getting beat up every inning was mind boggling. Cecil better not do the same this year.

Personally I think Cecil would have to try to pitch badly to be that bad.

Cecil at least has mistakes that you can look at and improve upon. If there is such a thing as "stuff" Jo-Jo doesn't have it.

BobbyBoy · Post #19 » by **BobbyBoy** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:21 am

Jo-Jo shouldnt have been in the MLB last year.