January 06, 2009
Giambi to the A's
Jason Giambi reached an agreement with the Oakland Athletics:
Jason Giambi has agreed to a one-year deal with the Athletics worth $4.5 million. Oakland has a team option for 2010 at $5 million with a $1 million buyout. The deal is pending a physical that will take place tomorrow.
Giambi did not receive much interest in the free-agent market. The A's and Rays were the two teams considering signing the 37-year-old. But Tampa Bay signed ex-Phillie Pat Burrell yesterday to a two-year, $16 million contract. So Giambi's decision to return to Oakland was not a difficult one.
Giambi is still a good hitter, his main problem is staying healthy. At seasonal age 38, those concerns are multiplied enough that Jason is taking a huge pay cut to keep playing. Except for the stars the Yankees hired, this has proved to be a very poor year to be a free agent.
Fat, drunk and stupid is now a great way to go through life.
Well juicing up paid off for the 1st contract - not so much for this one.
The day that Jason G signed with Yanks, with his parents present, his wonderful brother, Jeremy, got caught at Las Vegas Airport with funny white powder. What will Jeremy do for this Jason signing?
Jeremy, who was so lacking in baseball fundamentals that he couldn't slide in an important
As-Yanks playoff game & almost did a split in half-sliding in the next game. Yet he impressed Epstein to sign him later for Boston.