This was expected to come today..and it has already started. The Yankees have offered a deal “slightly more” than $137.5 million. It will be above Johan Santana’s contract, and it will be the largest offer to a pitcher in MLB history. Go get ‘em Cashmoney!
Here is the message the Yankees are sending the rest of baseball:
Don’t. Even. Try.
The Yankees have offered CC Sabathia a six-year deal worth $140 million. The record for a pitcher is six years and $137.5 million for Johan Santana. Don’t be surprised if CC ends up with $150 million, or an average of $25 million a year.
The Yankees officially began the work today to assemble their dream rotation of CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe or A.J. Burnett, and
As the Post reported Thursday, the Yanks skipped the appetizers and moved straight to the main course with Sabathia and offered the largest pitching package in history as an opening strike to land their No. 1 target.
No Yankees official would firmly define the bid, but sources said it was for more than the $137.5 million over six years that the Mets gave last year to Johan Santana.
The Yanks made the proposal on the first day offers officially could be extended to outside free agents, and the plan was to make offers either today or in the coming days to Lowe and Burnett.
As expected Friday, the New York Yankees officially tendered an offer to free-agent pitcher CC Sabathia.
The offer is expected to be six years in length and have a total value of slightly more than the record $137.5 million deal that pitcher Johan Santana signed with the Mets before last season.
Santana’s deal had been the largest ever for a pitcher.
Friday represented the first day that free agents can be signed. The Yankees also are expected to make offers to free-agent right-handers A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe.
Burnett has a four-year, $54 million offer from Toronto, while Lowe is looking for a five-year contract.
Kevin Rozell
M. B. Rozell
Ray Rothfeldt
Eduardo Perez
The Yankees are ruining baseball, they have no prospects, so they steal other teams players. Boycott of Baseball is needed, as well as spending and free agent restrictions.
Who says the Yankees are spending all of their $80+ million dollars coming off the payroll? They have plenty of prospects. The Yankees lack of youngsters over the years make people think they have nobody in the farm system, but that is totally untrue.
Kevin
O believe me, they’ll spend it all, they have the prospects and all but Jim R is right, they are ruining baseball with all this money they can spend on pitchers and hitters, money that teams that the Pirates and Royals don’t have…