Monday, November 13, 2006

Daisuke Matzusaka

MLB's Oreste Destrade broke the story today that the Boston Red Sox won the right to sign Matzusaka with a $50MM posting fee.

I had been thinking the flush-with-money theory was an exxageration following the Ramirez and Wood signings, but that posting fee is going to make Daisuke close to a $100MM pitcher after he signs his contract.

Barry Zito is in line for Kevin brown money if that proves true.

1 comment:

ericwyman said...

It will be interesting how both the media nd the agents will use this to try and shape the FA market. To me you have to through whatever the posting fee was and throw it away. It's a blind bid, so the Red Sox could be 10-15M higher than anyone else without being pushed to that level. I'd think that his expected salary should be judged on its own (3-4 years, 12M). Still it's pretty scary that he's immediately being attached to that 100M figure in the media. That's something Boston fans will latch on to big time if he falters.