A's re-sign Wuertz

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6:53pm: Slusser has the details: Wuertz will get $2.2MM in 2010, $2.8MM in 2011, and the club option for 2012 is worth $3.5MM with a $250K buyout.

 

6:28pm: The deal is worth $5.25MM, according to the AP (via USA Today).

 

5:55pm: The Athletics have agreed to a two-year deal with reliever Michael Wuertz, according to MLB.com's Jane Lee (via Twitter). Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle tweets that the deal includes a club option for a third year. Wuertz had filed for $2.9MM in arbitration while the club submitted $1.9MM. He was the team's last remaining arbitration eligible player.

 

The 31-year-old righty posted a 2.63 ERA in 78.2 innings last season, as batters made contact on just 58.9% of the swings they took against him. As you can imagine, that was far and away the best rate in baseball.

[TruffleShuffle]

i'm not even going to blame hendry for this one... friggin lou.

[NewUserName]

i think the mishandling of Wuertz started before Lou. Lou certainly has plenty of room for blame on this one though

[chasinf5s]

ill always remember when he came in after Z gave up 6 runs and left with the bases juiced and no outs and struck out the side.

[Omar]

ill always remember when he came in after Z gave up 6 runs and left with the bases juiced and no outs and struck out the side.

 

I was at that game. It sucked.

[Cubbie Swagger]

I still don't understand what the problem was with Wuertz. We could have an awesome bullpen right now if "Lou's Doghouse" didn't exist.

[Sammy Sofa]

I still don't understand what the problem was with Wuertz.

 

Lou's bullpen management.