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Molina's Coming Back

Nothing I would get very excited about, but Jose Molina has agreed to a two year/$4 million deal to serve as backup for the Yankees. I have bored you enough about the Yankees' need for a real backup catcher so I won't again, but it would be nice if they didn't just cross this off their list. The lead of the story announcing the Molina signing contains some interesting news on Rivera. Apparently MLB is upset with the current Yankees' offer to Rivera because they feel it will inflate the market for relievers. They are right of course and I would imagine that their concern will keep the Yankees from making a bigger offer if they were inclined to in the first place. (I don't think they were) I understand Mo's pride has been hurt here, but he needs to suck it up and sign the contract. If he can get more somewhere, then by all means go get it, but the Yankees do not owe him more money and the people who keep saying he was underpaid for years need to reconsider their position. He may have been underpaid in the 90's, but since 2000 he hasn't been and he has made almost $80 million and pitched about 650 innings including playoffs. That's about $123,000 an inning, not too shabby.

Posted by Peter (Yankees) on November 16, 2007 02:31 PM |

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Yeah, he signed the contract. If he feels he was underpaid by the Yankees then he should fire his agent. The Yankees are going to sign him for the cheapest price they can, and it just so happens he was the highest paid player at his position for a long time. His agent is supposed to get the best deal for his client. When he first signed for 10 million a year people were complaining about a reliever making that much then as well. This has Gary Sheffield written all over it.

Posted by: Tripp | November 16, 2007 03:51 PM |

When I see number like that $123K per inning and the ones for Rocket per inning in 07, it makes me think that something, somewhere has to break this pattern. It can't keep escalating like this.

Trees do not grow to the heavens ...

Posted by: Mitchell [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 16, 2007 05:22 PM |

Yes, Rivera is being silly. But he's always had a little bit of that in him and the Yanks should have handled this more delicately -- i.e., memo to idiot son: shut your mouth.

Posted by: Corey | November 16, 2007 05:48 PM |


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