Twins offer Santana a 5 year deal

[Garwilly]

I may have totally missed this, but halfway down the article.

 

 

http://www.startribune.com/507/story/1558537.html

 

Made offer to Santana

The word in baseball circles is that the Twins have made a five-year offer to two-time Cy Young Ward winner Johan Santana calling for $93 million.

 

Santana will be in the final year of his four-year, $40 million contract in 2008.

 

It's doubtful that Santana will accept this offer, but at least it's a start in an attempt to lock up the pitcher many consider to be the best in baseball.

Edited November 21, 2007 by NCCubFan
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[GoCubsGo1679625768]

This is just a PR move by management. They know he won't accept it.

[daske17]

This is just a PR move by management. They know he won't accept it.

 

However, considering that Zambrano and Oswalt took hometown discounts to stay with the team, this may be as goodwill an effort as you can get with a team notoriously tight on the pursestrings.

 

If I was a Twins fan though, I would be pissed. A pitcher like Santana comes along infrequently, and with the new revenue that the new park supposedly will bring in, along with ownership being flush with subsidy money, it is kinda insulting to everyone.

[inari]

With how cheap the Twins are, it's surprising they'd waste the pen and paper on this contract that has no chance of being accepted.

[Burtonbell]

Hmm...

18.6 (avg) mil for 5 years.

Twins payroll about the same as 2 unopened twinkie packages dated from 1979.

 

 

I am going out on a limb and say this deal gets rejected.

[radarluv1]

thats more per year than any pitcher out there, right? Z and zito are around 18 per if iirc. either way its still alot of money. if he could get them to add a year to that, or 1-2 mill/yr that may not be that huge a hometown discount

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

It appears Santana has countered the Twin proposal with a 7/126 proposal.

 

LInk.

 

The Twins told Santana's agent, Peter Greenberg, they were willing to top the five-year, $91.5 million deal the Cubs gave pitcher Carlos Zambrano in August.

 

But Greenberg countered by citing the seven-year, $126 million deal the Giants handed Barry Zito last December.

 

 

On Wednesday, word of Santana's availability remained mostly a whisper in major league circles, but it's expected to become a roar before the winter meetings, Dec. 3-6.

 

[Outshined_One]

I'd give it to him. He'll be able to get more per year on the open market.