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Post by Terd Ferguson on Jan 18, 2012 16:51:36 GMT -6
i thought the posting fee got to be applied toward his salary...no? NO |
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Jan 18, 2012 16:52:40 GMT -6
None of the other Japanese pitchers were built like American pitchers. Darvish is huge. He is different. This front office has earned the benefit of the doubt. Winning does that for you.
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Jan 18, 2012 16:56:16 GMT -6
Jeff Wilson @jeffwilson_FWST 26m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
On Yu Darvish deal, $56M guaranteed. Can make up to $4M in bonuses. Can earn even more if he wins Cy Young. #Rangers
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Jon Morosi @jonmorosi 27m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Source: Yu Darvish’s guarantee is not *exactly* $60 million because there is an option worked into the six-year contract. #Rangers
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Jan 18, 2012 16:58:12 GMT -6
i thought the posting fee got to be applied toward his salary...no? NO dangit |
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Jan 18, 2012 16:59:27 GMT -6
Prince Fielder may have lost a suitor this afternoon. It's been reported that the Rangers are unlikely to sign both him and Darvish, so agent Scott Boras may turn elsewhere as he looks to find a deal for the 27-year-old free agent. DAMMIT!!! |
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Jan 18, 2012 17:23:23 GMT -6
www.bbtia.com/the-clubhouse/2011/12/20/brown-reports-of-rangers-3b-tv-deal-closer-to-truth-than-16b.htmlBrown: Reports Of Rangers' $3B TV Deal "Closer To Truth" Than $1.6B JOEY MATSCHULAT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011 AT 1:40 PM | PRINT ARTICLE | SHARE ARTICLE Maury Brown has a good article up right now over at BP detailing why the Rangers aren't saddling themselves with quite the level of monetary risk that the combined amount of their successful bid + eventual contract would suggest, and talking about how the hire of Joe Januszewski from the Red Sox -- a hire made by now-deposed owner Chuck Greenberg -- now figures to be especially valuable to Texas, as Januszewski was part of Boston's initiative to create international sponsorships with Japanese companies at the time of the Daisuke Matsuzaka signing, and should be able to help the Rangers tap into significant new revenue streams that they've never had access to previously. Which, of course, is all very well and good and deserving of our excitement ... but Brown also has this on the Rangers' much debated TV deal: When it was reached shortly after Nolan Ryan and former owner Chuck Greenberg won the auction for the club, it was reported that the 20-year deal was worth $3 billion. And then, for some reason, that changed to between $1.5-$1.6 billion, which has now circulated about enough to become “fact.” But, in speaking with two sources that were close to the negotiations on the television deal yesterday, they say that the original figure of $3 billion is closer to the truth… and possibly then some (the sources would not elaborate as to the total but said that based upon certain escalators in the deal, the package could be worth more). So, as far as I can tell, we now have Brown in the group with Ben Rogers and Bob Nightengale that believes the Rangers' TV deal is actually closer to $3 billion over 20 years than $1.6 billion, and pretty much everyone else still occupying the $1.6 billion camp. The key here, though, is that Brown actually provides a key hint as far as the escalator-based construct of the deal -- and, in the process, sounds very credible, as that was a detail which no other writer had confirmed up to this point. If this actually is a $3 billion TV deal over 20 years (albeit one that doesn't kick in until 2015), then it becomes quite a bit easier to understand why the Rangers took the plunge that they did on Darvish. It also becomes quite a bit easier to envision Texas still springing for Prince Fielder, provided that ownership is at all comfortable with borrowing against those future revenue streams.
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Jan 19, 2012 10:47:38 GMT -6
JD was on The Ticket this morning, and while he won't flat-out say the Rangers WON'T pursue/sign Fielder, he did say it is now very unlikely. Hope that's just a smoke screen.
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