Standing alone in the limelight, surrounded by the many players avoiding arbitration this weekend, stands my Canadian Crusher, Justin Morneau.
The Minnesota Twins first baseman and 2006 AL MVP agreed to a $7.4 million, one-year contract Friday, receiving nearly $3 million raise from the $4.5 million he made last year. Morneau batted .271, crushing 31 longballs and 111 RBIs last season.
Here's to at least 40 bombs in '08, Justin.
Reliever Juan Rincon, who went 3-3 with a 5.13 ERA for Minnesota last season, was apparently worth roughly $2,475,000 to the club. He is eligible to earn an additional $25,000 for pitching in 65 games in 2008.Two more Twins' salaries still need to be dealt with by the organization: right-fielder and cannon-armed stud, Michael Cuddyer, asked for $6.2 million while the team offered $4.7 million; and righty reliever Matt Guerrier, requested $1.15 million, as the Twins proposed $750,000.
Furthermore, Jason Kubel, who has bad knees and sucks at DHing but is good at standing around in left, reached a $1.3 million, one-year deal on Thursday.
[MLB]
6 comments:
What a stud. Hopefully we'll be able to lock him up for longer in the near future...
I second that! As long as he becomes a .300 hitter again, that is. I'd love to see the M&M boys together for a long time.
They need to stop with this arbitration BS with Morneau and Cuddy and put actual contract together while they are cheap. I don't want to go through another Hunter/Santana ordeal.
"Has bad Knee's and sucks at DH'ing" Sounds like Eric Chavez to me. Except you insert arm's and everything else falls into place.
agreed muck-up - hopefully they'll figure out how to lock them both up for 4-5 years before they start making what they're actually worth.
They did it! They signed them both to long term contracts like I wanted.
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