Zito gets a seven year, $18m/year deal

DMZ · December 28, 2006 at 9:39 am · Filed Under Mariners 

Supposedly.

“Sooooo… how about that appeals court ruling?”
“I’m fine.”
“You think between the union, Bonds, and everything else we’ll be able to keep Bonds on the field all year?”
“Sure, why not.”
“It does seem like there’s a fair chance he’s going to jail on perjury charges in the next… year, two years.”
“Nah.”
“That’s a pretty short window of opportunity, between possible retirement or incarceration…”
“Fine, fine, call Boras, tell him we cave.”

Best part: the 2014 option for $18m. Yeaaaaaaah.

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105 Responses to “Zito gets a seven year, $18m/year deal”

  1. Johnny Slick on December 28th, 2006 9:45 pm

    Late to the party….

    I still can’t believe that the Giants, having signed Zito for his year 29-30-31-32-33-34-35 seasons, wanted to make sure they got that option year in there. Because obviously that age-36 season… I mean, what? I guess there’s no additional risk to them: if salaries have doubled another couple of times and teams are paying $30m/win, that’ll look great.

    Dude, this is Brian Sabean we’re talking about. At age 36, Zito will just be getting into the proper San Francisco Giant age range. Mind you, he’ll probably still get called “rook” by 2014 Opening Day center fielder Marquis Grissom and Bonds would probably call him something too except that by then his head will be so large that his vocal cords will only be able to produce sounds too low in pitch to be audible by normal humans.

  2. Boo Radley on December 28th, 2006 10:51 pm

    Actually 97, they don’t even spend money on local guys any more. Maybe we could change it to they only spend money on old, washed-up has-beens.

  3. msb on December 29th, 2006 8:19 am

    #100. preaching to the choir, Jeff.

  4. Adam S on December 29th, 2006 8:49 am

    Wow and double wow. First off I tip my cap to Boras on this one. Even with the crazy contracts being handed out, I laughed when he said he wanted 6/100 for Zito. And the contract he signed blows that away. I wonder who the Giants thought they were bidding against — couldn’t they have gotten it done at 6/18 per or 7/16 per.

    I’ve said all off-season that the Zito contract would be the worst free agent signing of the winter and it pretty much is. (Dave has it #2 but Zito and Lee are both orders of magnitude of horrible above the others and it’s hard to pick one over the other.)

    I know I’m much more pessimistic on Zito than most, but I can’t fathom how anyone thinks this is a good deal. I bet 29 GMs are laughing today.

  5. mfan on December 29th, 2006 9:27 am

    I know I’m much more pessimistic on Zito than most, but I can’t fathom how anyone thinks this is a good deal. I bet 29 GMs are laughing today.

    28…Bavasi is probably pissed…

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