Comments on: Great News! Mauer Signs.

By: festivus

festivus — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:56:35 +0000

"Boy, they’ve really set a precedence here for Punto’s next contract. Can they really have 2 guys on the team at $20 mil/yr plus?"

Good stuff!

By: Ragstoriches

Ragstoriches — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:55:48 +0000

Boy, they’ve really set a precedence here for Punto’s next contract. Can they really have 2 guys on the team at $20 mil/yr plus?

By: sirsean

sirsean — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:58:42 +0000

It really was impressive how little leaked out. Everyone was tripping over themselves to “report” on the ongoing negotiations, but at every step the actual facts that anyone knew about never changed from “the talks seem to continuing, they haven’t stalled, HOLY CRAP SHAPIRO IS ON AN AIRPLANE, okay I still think it’s going to happen, we don’t know anything, repeat.”

By: FunBobby

FunBobby — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:22:00 +0000

another interesting point is that the Twins broke this story themselves. They sent an email out to the media outlets. Good work controlling the new, Twins.

By: sirsean

sirsean — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:16:06 +0000

Yup.

By: FunBobby

FunBobby — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:13:27 +0000

and its important to point out that this is an extension, he will start making 23 mil in 2011. He is still under is old 4 year/33 million dollar contract for 2010.

By: sirsean

sirsean — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:11:50 +0000

Well, there are a lot of post-peak years in there, but that's just part of the deal when you sign a deal like this.

According to JoeC, it's $23M each year (not backloaded).

Rosenthal points out that this is the 4th largest contract in MLB history behind ARod, Arod, and Jeter.