Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman

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http://www.cnnsi.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/01/26/dodgers.fielder/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a3&eref=sihp

 

The Dodgers were thinking a lot like me on Prince.

 

The Dodgers offered about $160 million for seven years but insisted on front-loading the contract and including an opt-out clause. The opt-out clause would come after the third or fourth year -- the specifics were never decided because the two sides never advanced far enough to nail down an offer sheet.

 

The source said that Boras asked all winter for a 10-year deal, but that "there was no way" the Dodgers would offer a deal close to that length.

 

The opt-out clause was important to Los Angeles for two reasons: The club is being sold through bankruptcy proceedings and owner Frank McCourt did not want to saddle the new owner with such a lengthy commitment, and also the club wanted protection against watching a 275-pound Fielder age through his 30s with guaranteed money.

 

The club's solution to those issues was to offer Fielder a mountain of money for three or four years -- about $26 million per year -- to buy out the prime years of his career on a short-term basis. At the end of that term, when the annual average value would fall below market value, the Dodgers assumed that Fielder would either take another crack at free agency or remain with the club at a discounted price.

 

There is no way Boras was going to accept a 4 year deal. Because that's what it was...the chances of them continuing to year 5 of the contract were slim to none regardless of how the first 4 years turned out.

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There is no way Boras was going to accept a 4 year deal. Because that's what it was...the chances of them continuing to year 5 of the contract were slim to none regardless of how the first 4 years turned out.

 

Well no, it's not. It's a 7-year deal with an opt-out, thus, more beneficial to the player. Up front money allows him to make a ton of cash now, and if he so chooses, potentially again in a few years. Until Victor Martinez got hurt there was a very good chance this was exactly the type of deal he would need to accept.

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