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ESPN: Red Sox win DM bidding

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2660428
Yeah, it's been rumored on the blogs for a few days, but now it hit the pseudo-official level.

$42 million for negotiating rights. If it's true, one of two things is certain:

  1. Epstein is no longer in charge of the BoSox.
  2. Epstein gamed the system purely to make sure the Yankees don't get him, and have no intention of offering a reasonable contract.
Either way, good news.
A good team gets saddled with a financial responsibility that no level of performance can match or he's a free agent next year, and even if the M's don't try to sign him then, he's a year older and won't be helping a competitor in 2007.

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Its not that crazy
If they can get him to agree to something like 5yrs/40mil, then its big money, but palatable. If he's as good as everyone expects, and as strong as he appears to be, it works out to about what he would command as a free agent in the States. Maybe even less than that. And if he declines, well, its hard to imagine that 40 million dollars can be seen as anything but a 'good faith effort' or whatnot.

by Mere Tantalisers on Nov 13, 2006 1:53 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

declines
in the sense that he refuses the offer, not decines physically. That's inevitable.

by Mere Tantalisers on Nov 13, 2006 1:54 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

I don't think they intend to tender a contract
Unless they don't mind sending Kyle Snyder and some other AAA retread out there every 5 days.  That's gonna add up to half of their insane budget alone.

by Gomez on Nov 13, 2006 1:55 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

David Ortiz >>> God
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Yeah.  He might be a pretty good pitcher in MLB. That's an awful big gamble.

Are we there yet?

by PositivePaul on Nov 13, 2006 1:57 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Well
it'll be interesting to see if this money counts against payroll, if they get him signed. If it doesn't, then who cares? The Red Sox have limitless resources.

by Jeff on Nov 13, 2006 2:13 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Exactly
Also, if this comes from a special fund about which Epstein does not need to be concerned, this says nothing about his control of the Sox.

by david h on Nov 13, 2006 3:20 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Well, at least he isn't a Yankee.
And this makes me feel better about the M's dropping out. Because they would of been beaten anyways. To me, I drew the line at $35 Million.
Aici zace un om despre care nu se ştie prea mult.

by Goose on Nov 13, 2006 2:50 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I just thought of something
IIRC is the guy that runs the DM blog a Yankee fan?

Man, he's got to be pissed right now.

Aici zace un om despre care nu se ştie prea mult.

by Goose on Nov 13, 2006 3:14 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I've been waiting and waiting
but the Tuesday 8am articles coming out of Japan haven't said shit yet about anything official with Seibu.  I think they might be actually meeting right about now, though, so eh... they're supposed to make an announcement of some form "today", I believe.

if I have to see one more article about Ogasawara and the Giants I'm going to cry though.

also, Kazuo Matsui just re-signed with the Rockies, a one-year contract.

Marinerds - a different daily dose of baseblog.

by Deanna on Nov 13, 2006 3:22 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

So does this mean
that the boston will do anything to dump Manny's contract now?  I hope so, we could use a DH.

by Edgar for Pres on Nov 13, 2006 5:53 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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