According to Jon Heyman, the Red Sox and Adrian Gonzalez were not able to reach an agreement on a contract extension. The trade has been called off, as Boston was unwilling to trade Casey Kelly, Anthony Rizzo, and Reymond Fuentes for one year of Gonzalez’ services. It will be interesting to see where Boston goes from here, particularly whether they revisit a long term deal with Adrian Beltre.
Ken Rosenthal does add that the clubs can revisit the deal, stating:
Window is closed for #RedSox to negotiate extension with AGon. Teams can still negotiate trade. This is far from over.
Update: The trade has gone through, but no extension was agreed upon. Joel Sherman is suggesting that the two sides may have some sort of framework for a deal in place and are just waiting to see if Gonzalez’ shoulder is fine.
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This a break for the Yanks if these talks don’t heat back up… Agon is a power balancer in the East and his acquisition would put them very near where they need to be in the lineup (obviously an outfield bat short) but what I can’t figure out is why agree to a trade and then not pony up the dough you know it takes to make the trade go through?
I think reconciling the demands of a star may be difficult without a competitive market to ground his expectations.
Why should his expectations be grounded? He’s the most underpaid first baseman in the league and is good for Tex like numbers every year (although UZR/150 and wOBA suggest Tex is a better player overall) and he is looking for longterm security while still in his 20′s.
When you consider that Pujols and Fielder will be free agents next year you have to assume he would make less than Albert but more than Prince and Albert will be breaking Tex’s bench mark so if their smart they’d do it now before Albert blows the bank.
The reports are he wants 8 years and the sox will go no higher than 6 and on the open market the dude will get at least 20 million per so 8/160 is probably a starting point, I imagine you could work down the 8 years to 7 perhaps (but Tex got 8 at the same age) but if you work down years I imagine money has to go up to like 22-24 million per for 6-7 years. Either way they knew it wasn’t going to be cheap going in.
From what’s being reported it looks like Theo “caved” in and will go 7 years / $23 million annually. That’s a huge commitment, but Theo’s giving the money to the right guy. Ortiz is not no guarantee to rake next season; at least not at a 2009 rate.
We’ve got to keep adding BEST PITCHER AVAILABLE to the rotation. Pedroia-Youkilis-Gonzalez-Ortiz is a fantastic middle of the order lineup.
Theo has a recent history of wanting short contracts, ie Bay, Martinez. Since the contract is just now being written, it should be limited for 2010 to the 6Mil range, not heavily effecting negotiating position for other trades this year. So, length of contract is probably the hangup. When you are in the 50% tax bracket, it doesn’t make too much diffence to delay payment some.