Mauer Signs Extension With Twins
Posted by Steve L. on March 22nd, 2010 · Comments (10)
Via Aaron Gleeman:
Months of speculation, assumptions, rumors, false reports, and anxiety finally came to an end yesterday afternoon when the Twins immediately overshadowed news of Joe Nathan officially opting for Tommy John surgery by signing Joe Mauer to an eight-year, $184 million contract extension that includes full no-trade protection and will keep the reigning AL MVP in Minnesota through his age-35 season in 2018.
Sorta makes all those posts in the Yankees blogosphere about how New York was going to land Mauer as a free agent, albeit sooner or later, seem rather silly now, don’t it?
Good. It’s good for baseball, and frankly, it’s good for the Yankees. They don’t need another high priced FA.
Frankly they were silly to begin with.
@ clintfsu813:
Plus, I don’t have to worry about them doing something equally silly like trading Montero.
Exactly. BTW, got Grandy and NJ in my draft yesterday. Trying to come up with trade for Cano also. I’m currently putting Weiters/Brian Roberts on the line for him.
Of all the people who has used this mantra of Mauer staying with The Twinkies is good for baseball,John Sterling AKA Harry Moskowitz is the one who shocked me the most. John/Harry is the Yankee homer personified, what got into him? Fair play for a change? anyway I commend everyone in the media who actually repeated this over and over again.
In lieu of a balanced schedule and a hard payroll cap, this is a nice thing to see. The ravenous Yankee$ and the almost as greedy Red Pox don’t get their grubby hands on him. The Twinkies now have a franchise player who is in the top five players in all of baseball. Really great move by the Twinkies, good of Mauer to stay and make a King’s Ransom all at the same time.
Steve Lombardi wrote:
No, not really… Just means that route has been delayed for 8 years
The BEST news is that the Sox won’t be getting him anytime soon.
I don’t see what wrong with the Yanks signing Mauer, if he had ever become a free agent.
It’s not going to happen now, but I don’t understand the difference between that, and the Yanks signing Teixiera or Sabathia or Mussina or Giambi or Jackson or Key or Wells or…
Steve Lombardi wrote:
I never saw the Yanks as being in on Mauer. It always looked like Boston was gearing up for a run on him, especially how they traded for V-Mart as a stopgap.
very happy to see mauer stayin in minnesota. he belongs there like jeter belongs in NY. now the twins need to put a roof on that new stadium cause its going to be freezing there during aprils.