Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 07, 2004
Washington Corridor Bidding War

There are reports that the Mets have become interested in signing Vlad Guerrero. According to this report in the Washington Post, the Mets are offering fewer years than the Orioles, but a higher average salary:


The report, citing three major league sources, said the Mets' offer would be for far lower than the Orioles' offer. However, Guerrero is believed to prefer the National League as well as a city, such as New York, with a large population from his native Dominican Republic.

One of the nice things about free agency from a player's point of view is that you are able to set values on such things as playing close to home, playing in a big city vs. a small city and so forth. Of course, there should be more teams bidding on Vlad, so maybe a short contract is in his best interest to prove the back is fine, and then he can get more money later. Of course, this hasn't worked for Ivan Rodriguez.

Ivan Rodriguez also is without a team , overplaying his hand with both the Marlins and Orioles, and there's talk of him accepting another one-year deal and hoping he's more favorably appraised next winter, as if he didn't do enough with the World Series-champion Marlins in 2003.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:33 AM | Free Agents | TrackBack (0)
Comments

NY Mets need to stay out of it. Having Vladdy end up signing a deal in the 5 year $65 million range will do more for the future of the game economically than anything else. If he gets bid up and ends up getting 6 years 90 million or more it will be ruinious to the economics of the game.

Posted by: John Gibson at January 7, 2004 03:20 PM