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December 21, 2006
M.L.B. Roundup
Yankees Greet Igawa, and Then Talk Details
By TYLER KEPNER
Though they have not signed him, the Yankees are welcoming Kei Igawa to the
team this week. Igawa, who has agreed to a five-year, $20 million contract,
visited Yankee Stadium yesterday and met with front-office officials for a
tour of the ballpark.
After dinner with his agent last night, Igawa is scheduled for a physical
exam today and will have dinner with Manager Joe Torre and General Manager
Brian Cashman in Manhattan.
The Yankees bid $26 million for the right to negotiate with Igawa, a star
of the Japanese league who went 14-9 with a 2.97 earned run average for the
Hanshin Tigers last season.
The Yankees have until Dec. 28 to complete their contract agreement with
Igawa. They plan to announce the signing of another left-hander, Andy
Pettitte, on a conference call with reporters today. Pettitte took his
physical Tuesday and has agreed to a one-year, $16 million contract with
a 2008 player option for the same amount.
ATOP SALARY CHART AGAIN It came as no surprise when the players union
released its annual average salary report yesterday that said the Yankees
were No. 1 for the eighth straight year. Surprising, however, was that the
Yankees’ average salary this year dropped from 2005.
The decline was not a first in recent years for the high-spending Yankees;
their average fell in 2003. But any time the Yankees have lower salary
figures of any kind, it is a development worth noting.
The Yankees’ average was $6,947,232, down from $7,386,451, a decline of
6 percent. They were one of 12 clubs whose average salaries fell, though
the major league average rose 9 percent, to $2,699,292 from $2,476,589.
Because of the number of players on their roster and disabled list as of
Aug. 31, the date both the union and the commissioner’s office use for
their computations, the Yankees’ payroll was actually higher this year
than last by $717,894 — $222,311,424 (32 players) to $221,593,530
(30 players).
Probably an even bigger surprise in the report than the drop in the Yankees’
average was the identity of the team with the second-highest average. The
Houston Astros’ average salary soared 47 percent, to $4,283,240 from
$2,905,946.
The Red Sox were third, down from second, at $3,986,768, and the Mets were
fourth, up from fifth, at $3,859,172. The Mets’ average rose 15.6 percent;
the Red Sox’ fell 4.4 percent.
At the bottom of the average list, not surprisingly, were the Florida Marlins
at $594,722. The Marlins, whose average plummeted 68 percent, and their
fellow Florida franchise, Tampa Bay ($747,536), were the only teams whose
averages were under $1 million. MURRAY CHASS
BOOK LEADS TO MOVIE DEAL Ray Negron has spent much of his 30 years in
baseball working for the Yankees, but nothing may have prepared him for
what has come since he published his first children’s book.
“The Boy of Steel,” a picture book about a boy with cancer who meets
Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano, rose to No. 2 on the New York Times
best-seller list for children’s books after its release in September.
Negron announced Tuesday that it would be made into a full-length feature
film.
Negron also said that a DVD cartoon of the book, which will be accompanied
by a 10-minute cartoon about how Negron ingratiated himself with George
Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ principal owner, will be released this fall.
Steinbrenner caught Negron spray-painting the Stadium when he was a
teenager, and instead of carting him off to jail made him a bat boy and
began his career in baseball.
Although Negron, who is now a team adviser, said that the movie would have
scenes shot at Yankee Stadium, he is a little ahead of the Yankees. Team
officials found out about the movie only last weekend and, according to
Lonn Trost, the Yankees’ chief operating officer, and Howard J. Rubenstein,
Steinbrenner’s spokesman, the organization has not seen a copy of the
script.
“This is not a Yankee project, and the Yankees did not know about it,”
Rubenstein said in a telephone interview. “The organization expects to
meet with Ray where he will describe and show them what he wants to do.
“Unless we see the script and approve it, nothing gets done, so it is very
premature. He is going to need approval from Major League Baseball, the
Yankees and the city to do the movie.” MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
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