CC To Yankees

7 years

160 million is what ESPN is reporting.

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by Boxkutter on Dec 10, 2008 12:03 PM EST reply actions

7 years 160 mil…it just doesn’t seem right. Put a cap on baseball please…Constructing constantly above .500 team in this day and age is like fishing with dynamite for the Yanks and Soxs.

by Clyde Simmons on Dec 10, 2008 12:17 PM EST reply actions

It wouldn't really matter

Say they put a cap on to where he could only get 10-12 mil per year. Teams like the Marlins and Royals still wouldn’t touch him.

by slurve on Dec 10, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions

But I bet the Brewers, Giants, Dodgers, Angels, and a host of other teams would.

by OkayJay81 on Dec 10, 2008 1:22 PM EST up reply actions

Those teams are big enough to make offers – they choose not to. Giants just gave a shitton to Zito, Angels have spent big a few times the last few years as have the Dodgers. The only thing a cap would do is take money the players would have made and put it into the pockets of the owners.

by slurve on Dec 11, 2008 8:52 AM EST up reply actions

so when do the Yanks sign Manny?

by Clyde Simmons on Dec 10, 2008 12:18 PM EST reply actions

thats 500k per pound for CC

by kershaw_equals_stud on Dec 10, 2008 12:18 PM EST reply actions

actually its about 10 cents

by boonitez on Dec 10, 2008 10:55 PM EST up reply actions

Rumored to be an opt-out in there

after 3 years

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by lemonjello on Dec 10, 2008 12:34 PM EST reply actions

My, aren't we chintzy

Couldn’t just add the extra million to make it an even $23M/year, Cashman? Jodie Sweetin and I agree: how rude.

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by drjayphd on Dec 10, 2008 12:50 PM EST reply actions

I believe John has made his feelings known...

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by Boxkutter on Dec 10, 2008 1:04 PM EST up reply actions

lol, funny enough, it is reportedly a 161 million deal.

by Clyde Simmons on Dec 10, 2008 1:39 PM EST up reply actions

that is unfortunate

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by doublestix on Dec 10, 2008 12:51 PM EST reply actions

+1

was hoping he turn down the extra money and play for his childhood team.

by LCT on Dec 10, 2008 1:13 PM EST up reply actions

He wanted to.

It’s fairly obvious that was Sabathia’s intention, until the Yankees made the disparity too great for Sabathia to walk away. I think there’s also a certain degree of K-Rod’s deal, which was much smaller than expected, which likely pushed Sabathia towards accepting this.

by GuyinNY on Dec 10, 2008 2:42 PM EST up reply actions

His childhood team wasn't in the running

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by PaulThomas on Dec 12, 2008 4:30 PM EST up reply actions

I wonder if there will be a record broken in 2010 for how much money New York will have wrapped up in former cleveland players…. cc, lebron…. at least Lebron will most likely be good for the entire duration of his contract…

by kershaw_equals_stud on Dec 10, 2008 1:22 PM EST reply actions

LeBron is not...

going to Cleveland. He is not going to leave a contending team, which is also the only team that will be able to sign another star along with him. New York sucks and will have to build through the draft.

by joegonzo on Dec 10, 2008 1:40 PM EST up reply actions

King James of New York

Bron’s coming to the Knicks. We’ll have the money to sign Bron AND Bosh in 2010, even after extending Lee and Nate. Besides which, do you really think David Stern would allow Bron to play anywhere else?

by GuyinNY on Dec 10, 2008 2:43 PM EST up reply actions

Opt-Out

Baaaad idea.

You either end up with an injured/ineffective player that you owe a ton of money to, or an excellent player who becomes a free agent.

Despite that, it’s still pretty nice to lock up a young ace. IF he’s healthy (and what pitcher has been for 7 years running?), he’ll never be overpaid.

by abbreviatedman on Dec 10, 2008 1:39 PM EST reply actions

Opt-out

I’ve read that the opt-out wasn’t negotiable. CC expressed that he wanted that with every team that they met.

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by mckeeno on Dec 10, 2008 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

+1

by GuyinNY on Dec 10, 2008 2:46 PM EST up reply actions

Opt out

If the Yankees wanted CC then they had to give him the opt out. That is the same reason the Jays were able to sign Burnett.

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by King Billy Royal on Dec 11, 2008 5:21 PM EST up reply actions

7 Years

Is a very, very long time. This could work out badly, but it’s only money.

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by Yakker on Dec 10, 2008 1:43 PM EST reply actions

If this means theyre out on Tex

Im dancing a jig!

by alskor on Dec 10, 2008 2:05 PM EST reply actions

It doesn't.

However, I do imagine that this will spur the Red Sox to hasten their offer to Teix.

by GuyinNY on Dec 10, 2008 2:46 PM EST up reply actions

I stand corrected

At least, according to Ken Davidoff. http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sptex1210,0,856797.story

Were I a Yankees fan, I’d much, much rather Teix > Burnett/Lowe, but that’s just me. Teix is younger, fills a position of need, is in his prime, and has the added bonus of moving Swisher to the OF. Granted, the decision to avoid signing Teix likely means the Yankees are somewhat less than confident in Jorge Posada’s ability to rebound to being an everyday starting catcher. Either way, Teix is going to get paid way more than I think he deserves (he just doesn’t strike me as a Pujols/A-Rod/Berkman/Manny type talent).

I do think the Yankees should make a major push to sign Manny Ramirez as a DH.

by GuyinNY on Dec 10, 2008 3:13 PM EST up reply actions

I said it many times, but If I were a Yankee fan

Id much rather have Tex than CC even. Tex was a perfect fit. Theyre going to have more problems with run scoring than they imagine. The pitching was shockingly good last year. They were 6th in AL in RA and 7th in RS… and the core of the offense is another year older… with lots of question marks. They scored only 789 runs this year… two more than Baltimore. A great hitting, great glove, switch hitting 1B would have answered a lot of questions about a lineup where you cant be sure what youre getting from Swisher, Jeter, Posada(health wise), Matsui, Damon, Nady and Cano(… and melky?). Their run prevention was actually pretty good.

Of course there was really not much reason why they shouldnt get both… though the pocketbook isnt unlimited, like many beleive.

My point isnt that CC wasnt a good fit – he was a great fit there. I just think Tex should have been their #1 priority. It seems like they decided they couldnt leave it to chance and pulled the trigger on plan b with Swisher.

by alskor on Dec 10, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions

Love it

it’s not my money, so I love them going out and getting the best pitcher on the market. Their problems in the last couple years haven’t been over paying players. It has been over paying the wrong players. I think CC was the right guy to overpay for.

I like al the other talk about getting more pitching, but I really think the offense needs a major upgrade too. The only offensive player we have that could make other teams worry is Arod.

by nyy601 on Dec 10, 2008 8:33 PM EST reply actions

Opt-out?

Is it just me or does this stand to become a new feature of many negotiation ploys and new contracts?

Even if Sabathia loves playing in New York, he’d be dumb not to exercise the opt-out after three years, if only to get a better contract in what should be a stronger economic environment and to account for the natural inflation in the value of baseball contracts. He’s basically told the West Coast teams that they have three years to get their finances in order to make him a proper offer.

What player WOULDN’T want an opt-out in his contract? If he’s terrible/wracked by injuries, he stays under the existing contract. If he’s solid or better, then he opts out and gets more money under a new deal.

by mrkupe on Dec 10, 2008 11:13 PM EST reply actions

Almost

like NFL contracts in reverse. Instead of the player getting the money only as long as he’s actually good, but the team just tearing up the contract if the player tanks, we have the player sticking with the contract if he tanks, and opting out if he doesn’t. The question is, why would a team do a contract like this? It’s actually not that hard to see why; a contract this long without the opt-out wouldn’t be any worse, in the case of the player getting injured or turning to crap—he’d suck up payroll either way. And if he stays good, they’d rather have him for three years than none.

by Vaux on Dec 11, 2008 2:11 AM EST reply actions

Well

in this case it was apparently the only way to assuage CC’s fears about whether he would like NY. I think teams would typically refuse these clauses unless they have no other choice – ie. cant sign the guy otherwise. The Burnett opt out certainly looked bad for the Jays.

by alskor on Dec 11, 2008 3:00 AM EST up reply actions