推 decorum:比Mets的出價還高出11M，現金男這次有點失手，希望值得 11/29 14:25
推 asdfzx:因為梅子只出15M 偏低 ;以松阪比宅男來看 洋基30:26M 梅子 11/29 15:30
→ asdfzx:39:15M 梅子的差價超大 ,也許梅子認為宅男差松阪很多 11/29 15:32
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In New Bidding, Price Is Right for the Yankees
By MURRAY CHASS
Published: November 29, 2006
The Yankees would be ecstatic if they could get twice the pitcher
for half the price. Right now, though, they have the poor man’s
Matsuzaka.
Not a team to let money burn a hole in its pockets, the Yankees took the
$33 million they did not spend on a winning bid for Daisuke Matsuzaka,
a 26-year-old right-hander, and used it to bid for another Japanese pitcher,
Kei Igawa, a 27-year-old left-hander.
The winning bid, $26 million, pulled the Yankees even with the Red Sox
in the new off-season game of post the pitcher.
Posting is what a Japanese team does when it wants to increase the
balance of trade between Japan and the United States. Japan could not
have hoped for anything more economically advantageous than having the
Yankees and the Red Sox go head to head in this new game. If they did
not understand it already, the Japanese are experiencing first-hand
the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, international version.
The rivalry is so intense that the Mets can’t break into it. They lost
out to the Red Sox for the rights to Matsuzaka with a $39 million bid,
and they fell short again yesterday on Igawa, bidding $15 million.
Omar Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, did not return calls seeking
comment on his dual strikeouts.
Minaya’s first two off-seasons with the Mets were far better than this
one has started out to be, but he has plenty of time to catch up. The
Mets will just have to work on their posting game.
The Japanese teams are the big winners. In fact, so much money will be
going to Japanese teams that Major League Baseball may want to study the
system and see if there is a less expensive way of doing it.
The Seibu Lions stand to gain $51.1 million once the Red Sox sign
Matsuzaka, which the team’s president, Larry Lucchino, is in Japan
trying to do. The Hanshin Tigers look forward to getting their $26
million once the Yankees sign Igawa. The Yankees have 30 days to get
it done. No contract, no posting payment.
The Yankees should have an easier time signing their Japanese pitcher
than the Red Sox may have getting theirs under contract.
The Red Sox are negotiating with Scott Boras, an agent who strikes fear
and loathing into the hearts and minds of some general managers. The
Yankees will negotiate with Arn Tellem, an old friend.
Not that Tellem will give the Yankees a discount, but they have a history
of successful negotiations. Tellem just negotiated a new two-year contract
for Mike Mussina, and he has negotiated two contracts for another Japanese
player, Hideki Matsui.
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And there was the Jason Giambi contract five years ago, when Tellem asked
the Yankees to remove all mentions of steroids use from the guarantee
language, and the team complied to induce Giambi to sign a seven-year,
$120 million contract.
The Yankees don’t expect Igawa’s contract to be an expensive one, maybe
four years at $4 million to $4.5 million a year. That’s because he is
viewed as being no higher than No. 3 in the rotation, perhaps No. 4.
Until they see him pitch against major league hitters in a major league
environment, though, the Yankees won’t know what they have. Their scouts
followed him for three years in Japan, but remember Hideki Irabu? He was
going to be a major league star until he pitched in the major leagues.
Although they didn’t get Matsuzaka, who is projected as a No. 1 starter
some day, the Yankees feel good about filling one of their rotation spots
without committing to a huge contract. Before they sign any free agent
these days, the Yankees consider the economic impact.
Because the Yankees have been over the luxury tax threshold more times
than even George Steinbrenner can count and will be over it again next
year, every $1 the Yankees spend on a new contract costs them $1.40.
That’s their tax rate — 40 percent. No one else has it.
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The posting game appears to be finished for this off-season. The Tampa
Bay Devil Rays won the rights to the third posted player, third baseman
Akinori Iwamura. His rights cost only $4.5 million. But notice that all
three players are headed for the American League East, so Matsuzaka and
Igawa could have plenty of chances to pitch against Iwamura next season.
An interesting and not unexpected aspect of the Matsuzaka portion of the
posting game arose yesterday. It didn’t take long for the conspiracy
theorists to emerge. What if, they asked, the Red Sox were unable to
sign Matsuzaka but negotiated a working agreement with Seibu. Japanese
teams have had working agreements with major league teams.
The Lions could agree through the agreement to take, say, $10 million
less from the Red Sox, who would use the money to complete a deal with
Matsuzaka. Seibu would receive less money, but $41 million would be
better than nothing.
Not so fast, said Lou Melendez, baseball’s vice president for
international relations.
“You can always conspire to try to beat the system,” he said,
“but this is a very simple straightforward process, and if there
is any question, it would be investigated. Anything can happen,
but everybody’s looking at that situation very carefully.”
Everybody knows, of course, that the Yankees and the Red Sox would never
do anything underhanded to try to beat each other.
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