Over the weekend, news broke of huge extensions being signed by Justin Verlander and Buster Posey. The two former MVPs got paid, handsomely. Add one more key player getting a lengthy extension to that list, as news has now broke of shortstop Elvis Andrus and the Texas Rangers agreeing to an 8-year, $ 120 million dollar extension. This new extension start after the 2014 season, which means that over the next ten years, Andrus will get paid a little over 131 million dollars. But, the important numbers are the 15 million per year he will get paid starting in 2015. It’s not a terribly high number for a starting SS, I suppose. But it is a number that’s large enough to generate some questions, most importantly, is Elvis Andrus worth that much? At the start of his extension, Andrus will still be just 26 years old. Theoretically, he will not have even reached his peak yet. Furthermore, the extension ends when he will be 35, which should be just in time to let him walk away before his heavy d…
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Rangers Take a Gamble with Andrus Extension
Posted on 01 April 2013.
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Giants, Posey Agree to 8-year Extension
Posted on 29 March 2013.
Well, the San Francisco Giants have their man locked up. The defending World Champions will go into the 2013 season with reigning NL MVP Buster Posey signed for the next nine years, at a total cost of $ 167 million. Posey already had agreed to a one-year, $ 8 million deal for 2013 to avoid arbitration, and his extension will kick in starting in 2014. $ 159 million in new money is coming to Posey. The details of the contract are mind-numbing. After the $ 8 million he’ll make this year, Posey will make $ 12.5 million in 2014, $ 16.5 million in 2015, $ 20 million in 2016, and $ 21.4 million over the final five years of the deal. He also gets a full no-trade clause, a $ 7 million signing bonus, and a $ 22 million club option for 2022 that has a buyout of $ 3 million, pushing the total max value of the contract to $ 193 million before taking any incentives into account. Whew. Posey’s contract is the longest and most expensive in Giants history, the longest contract ever given to a catche…
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King Felix Extension on Hold?
Posted on 11 February 2013.
The Internet exploded when it was reported last week that the Seattle Mariners were about to sign pitcher Felix Hernandez to a seven-year, $ 175 million deal. Though the reported deal IS huge, there’s no denying that Hernandez has been a workhorse and the team needs him if they’re ever going to be anything other than the crapfest they are now. Now, various outlets are reporting that the extension may be on hold because the Mariners have reservations about Hernandez’s elbow, among other things. The negotiations are not as finalized as the earlier reports made it seem, either: “But as of Sunday afternoon, sources say, the Mariners and Hernandez are not close to finishing an extension, because there are issues that the two sides are sorting through.” More accurately, the team is (rightly) concerned that Hernandez’s elbow may explode at some point during the life of that contract and the team would still be on the hook for $ 25 million a season until it expires. That would be double-plus …
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R.a. Dickey Agrees to Extension with Blue Jays, Opening Door for Trade
Posted on 17 December 2012.
Tweet According to multiple outlets, NL Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey has agreed to a two-year, $ 25 million contract extension with the Blue Jays, opening the door for the New York Mets to trade the 38-year old knuckleball pitcher. Here are details courtesy of ESPNNY: Dickey will be getting the money that he had requested [...]
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R.a Dickey Traded to Toronto Blue Jays, Agrees to $25 Million Extension
Posted on 17 December 2012.
Reigning 2012 National League CY Young winner R.A Dickey has been traded to the Toronto Blue Jays and has agreed to a [...]
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Evan Longoria Signs Six-Year, $100 Million Contract Extension That Could Keep Him with Tampa Bay Rays Until 2023
Posted on 26 November 2012.
If Evan Longoria isn’t a Tampa Bay Ray for life, it certainly won’t be for a lack of trying.
The third baseman agreed to a six-year, $ 100 million contract extension with the team on Monday, which means that he will be under team control until 2023.
The 27-year-old had previously signed a six-year, $ 17.5 million deal with the team that included team options for the 2014-16 seasons where he would be paid $ 7.5 million, $ 11 million and $ 11.5 million, respectively. With the new deal including an option for the 2023 season, Longoria could be signed with the Rays until he is 38 years old.
In 2012, Longoria battled injuries through much of the year and appeared in just 74 games while batting .289 with 17 home runs and 55 runs batted in. The three-time All Star was drafted No. 3 overall by the Rays in the 2006 draft, and it appears he will be spending the entirety of his professional baseball life as a member of the Rays organization.
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Baker Extension Is About Stability, Leadership
Posted on 15 October 2012.
Bob Castellini stood at a podium on April 23, 2008, answering questions about why he fired general manager Wayne Krivsky just three weeks into the season, and one question struck him like a runaway boulder.
When is this organization going to start showing some stability in its leadership? Castellini was asked.
At thsy point, the usually mild-mannered CEO of the Cincinnati Reds almost turned into Nikita Khrushchev pounding a shoe on the podium when he said, We are not going to lose any more.
And he has become a man of his word. There is stability and there is winning.
For the second time, the Reds have extended the contract of a winning manager, Dusty Baker. It was announced today that the team has extended Bakers deal for two more years through the 2014 season.
A wise move? Indeed, it is. It gives Baker a chance to complete his mission of bring a World Series championship to Cincinnati.
The team crept closer than it has been to that goal since 1995 when the 63-year-old Baker ovecame setback after adversity after setback after adversity including his own health issues to lead the Reds to 97 victories. That tied the Washington Nationals for the most wins in the majors this year. And he led his team to its second National League Central Division championship in three years after the Reds hadnt won the divison or qualified for the postseason in 15 years.
Early in spring training this year, Baker sat in his clubhouse office eating a bowl of cereal and he said, between bites, We are going to have a lot of fun this year. Were going to have a very good team and were going to do some things.
It wasnt an hour later when he heard the news closer Ryan Madson needed season-ending Tommy John surgery, robbing Baker of his closer.
And not long after that two other important bullpen occupants, Nick Masset and Bill Bray, reported pain in their pitching equipment.
Madson and Masset never threw a pitch in anger this year and Bray tried but was unable to produce and eventually joined Madson and Masset as unusable arms.
Rather than bemoan his misfortune and curse the baseball gods, Baker calmly adjusted. Adjusted? Despite that large hunk gouged out of the bullpen, Baker put together a bullpen that was the best in baseball.
Then as the season progressed, veteran third baseman Scott Rolen was in and out of the lineup with shoulder issues and back issues. Second baseman Brandon Phillips and shortstop Zack Cozart missed considerable time.
Then there was an even that might have crushed lesser men. Baker lost his best player, Joey Votto, in late June to a knee injury that cost him nearly six weeks.
Baker never blinked. He made the necessary adjustments, tinkered and adjusted his lineup cards. And the Reds, under his positive influence, amped it up a stretch of 22 wins in 25 games and a 36-12 record without Votto.
Would this have been possible under lesser leadership, under somebody who would have felt sorry for themselves and used the issues as an easy excuse for the team to wither and die?
Thats the beauty of Dusty Baker. Bakers photograph should be somewhere inside the cover of Norman Vincent Peales book, The Power of Positive Thinking.
Baker takes heavy abuse from fans who disagree with his lineups, his batting orders, his strategy and his pitching decisions or non-decisions.
But he has reasons for everything he does because everything he does is thought out ahead of time. No matter what he does, if it backfires and he is asked afterward by the media why he did it, he has an answer an answer that makes his sense.
He is in his office early every day pouring over scouting reports, statistical sheets and match-ups, searching for any scrap of intel that might gain his team even an inch of an advantage.
Some fans hold it against him that he is 1-9 in postseason elimination games and that he and former manager Gene Mauch have the most wins in major-league history without ever winning a World Series.
So much has to go right for a team tro win a World Series, including a large dose of good fortune.
In Game 5 of the NLDS this year, the Reds were down two runs to the San Francisco Giants. In the final four innings, they had the tying run at the plate all four times, but only scored one run.Was that the managers fault? Of course not. Somebody, anybody holding a bat, has to come up with the game-deciding hit. It never happened.
Managing a baseball team is a lot like playing blackjack. A blackjack player can play every hand exactly by the book and lose the car payment and the mortgage payment. Why? Because he didnt get the cards.
Its the same with a baseball manager. He can make all the right moves, but his players his deck of cards have to fall the right way.
As Castellini said it best, Dusty Baker is right man for this team. He’s the right manager to continue the building process that will take us deeper and deeper into the playoffs in the future.”
Baker, a three-time Manager of the Year, wont be manager of the year this season, but for what he had to endure and for how he responded, he should win a mythical Hand-Tied Manager of the Year.
Stability and winning thats what it is all about. And Baker is the right choice to bring the Reds both.
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Reds, Dusty Baker Agree to Contract Extension
Posted on 15 October 2012.
CINCINNATI – The National League Central Division champion Cincinnati Reds and field manager Dusty Baker have agreed to terms on a 2-year contract extension through the 2014 season.
The formal announcement will be made today at a 3:00 p.m. press conference at Great American Ball Park by Reds President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Castellini and President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Walt Jocketty.
“In Dusty’s five seasons here he’s taken us to the Postseason twice and has proven he can lead our teams to championship-caliber play on the field,” Castellini said. “He’s the right manager to continue the building process that will take us deeper and deeper into the playoffs in the future.”
Baker, 63, in October 2007 originally was signed by the Reds to a 3-year contract through the 2010 season, then in October 2010 received a 2-year contract extension through 2012.
The 2012 National League Manager of the Year candidate led the Reds to the playoffs twice in the last 3 years to become only the third skipper to lead the club to the Postseason more than once (Bill McKechnie, 1939, ’40; Sparky Anderson, 1970, ’72, ’73, ’75, ’76). The Reds’ 97-65 record in 2012 was the second-best in the Major Leagues.
He is 419-391 (.517) in 5 seasons with the Reds and 1,581-1,432 (.525) in a 19-year Major League career that includes 5 division championships with 3 teams, including the San Francisco Giants (1997, 2000), Chicago Cubs (2003) and Reds (2010, 2012). He ranks 19th on Major League Baseball’s all-time victories list and ranks sixth in wins in franchise history.
Baker already has been named NL Manager of the Year 3 times by the BBWAA, twice by The Sporting News and once by The Associated Press. He also finished second twice, including in 2010 by a single voting point.
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