Price and Rays Avoid Arbitration, Agree to $4.35M Deal
Topkin reports that David Price and the Rays agree to a $4.35M deal, far less than what I thought he would get if he went to arbitration.
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But doesn't the Victor Martinez injury
add another team in the hunt for a power bat?
Single Year?
Is this a single year deal? Do we get to play this game every year until he becomes a free agent?
Any type of extension is looking pretty bleak at this point.
Just be happy he isn’t breaking our back now.
This shows that he knows what is in store this year, but I don't think he wants a long term deal.
he knows he is gonna get paid in free agency. But I appreciate him being cool about it by agreeing to this deal.
Or this deal gets superseded by an extension come spring training
It’s possible!
by Ben Tumbling on Jan 17, 2012 1:39 PM EST up reply actions
Ben, that would make me go from 6 to midnight
If I read this year about a 3yr/30 mil deal, I might just explode in my pants.
that would make me excite
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The Price amount is absolutely amazing news.
Since the previous arbitration total matters alot in the process this means we can afford him for a year or 2 longer than previously thought.
He's still getting paid draft bonus money, I think.
Could be a factor in him taking this
Vroom vroom party starter
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Neimann isn't a team player
trade him!
Matt Moore. That is all.
by joeybw on Jan 17, 2012 1:41 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Neimann makes it about 57
I think we can still afford Pena. His market isn’t exactly exploding anyway.
Matt Moore. That is all.
ha i know, hell we all know, but its not going the way at all like he planned...
he is gonna end up a Ranger. No doubt.
Can we keep price longer now?
If his first arb season was lower, does that all of the corresponding years will be lower than we thought too? Maybe 2013 will only be around 7-8 mil now
by BossmanJunior333 on Jan 17, 2012 2:08 PM EST via mobile reply actions
It actually ties Dontrelle Willis
for most ever made in a 1 year deal (in first year of arby) Kershaw will crush that though. However, it does seem like a long term deal is now possible because he signed for almost half of what he was projected to.
Matt Moore. That is all.
if this ties for the most ever for a pitcher in the 1st yr of arb
where did the projections come from that make this seem so cheap?
by LukeBaileysaStud on Jan 17, 2012 2:25 PM EST reply actions
It's a skewed record.
Lincecum made $8M in what would have been his first but he signed a two year deal so Price and Willis are tied for the highest one year deal.
my guess is that a team-friendly extension
would involve a modest signing bonus ($1MM?), a bump in 2012 salary to $5MM, and then something like 7/9/12 for his three arbitration years, and maybe $15MM for each of his first two free agent years, with a modest buyout ($1MM?)
So that’d be 4/36 with an escalator to 6/64.
Anything less than that would be awesomely team-friendly. Anything more than that and Price is probably a Yankee at some point in the near future.
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 18, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
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