Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 02, 2008
Deal Details

Joe Christensen publishes the details of the Santana deal. The 2014 option vests:

It's a vesting option that can be triggered with innings pitched or a high finish in the Cy Young voting. Santana also received a full no-trade clause. The average annual value of Santana's six-year deal is actually $22 million. Only Alex Rodriguez (at $27.5 million) will make more.

The Mets also tore up the old contract, so Santana receives $19 million in 2008. Johan got a very good deal here. Santana and his agent played this whole deal perfectly. They used the no-trade cause to force the Twins to make a deal, then used the short negotiation window to force the Mets to pay free agent money without free agency. On top of great money and seven years, they also get a full no-trade! Not even a short list of teams! I can't imagine what he'd get if he actually became a free agent.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:15 PM | Trades | TrackBack (0)
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One other thing worth noting is that the (relatively) low price the Mets paid in prospects should have made them more willing to pay the big(ger) bucks that Santana was looking for than they would have been if, say, they'd needed to include Fernando Martinez. So that result also played well for Santana.

Posted by: mraver at February 3, 2008 02:36 AM

Only time will tell.

Posted by: k-karl at February 3, 2008 06:20 PM
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