You can tell the light to exit and the night to enter for one more season, as Mariano Rivera has made it official that he intends to return and pitch in 2013.
I never had much of a doubt that he was going to go back on his initial post-injury declaration, but George King of The NY Post made things about as official as they could be today with a report that Mo contacted Brian Cashman yesterday and told him he wants to come back and pitch next season. Mo did not receive a qualifying offer yesterday, and one was not needed as he was an obvious “Yankees or nobody”-type player for next season, but he will need to sign a new deal to make things officially official and King’s report made it sound like a new deal is going to get done quickly. I would expect a slight decrease in pay from the $15 mil Mo made this past season, but that’s just me. The important thing is that the closer question for next season is answered before it can even become a serious one and we all get one more year to watch the best there is, was, and ever will be do his thing.
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TIQ IQ
Man, somebody gotta sell posters of that.
‘Know what I’d LOVE to see?
Mo accepts a one-year $5M contract for a savings of $10M and Soriano accepts the one-year $13.3M qualifying offer.
The Yanks use that savings towards Soriano’s $800K raise and signing Jose Valverde to a one-year contract for say $6M.
The Yanks still have $3.2M left over from that savings plus another $7.75M cleared from letting go of $4M Garcia and $4M – 250K buyout = $3.75M bust Feliciano for $10.95M cleared after re-signing Mo and Sori and signing Valverde.
Rivera
Soriano
Robertson
Valverde
Aardsma
Logan
Rapada
This would hands down be the best bullpen in MLB at least on paper.
I’m sure I’ll be told Sori and V want to close but who is really giving Soriano a three or four year deal on one good year as a closer after being a pile of crap the year before? Yeah, he could be back, but who knows? Who’s giving Valverde more than a year or the $9M he made in 2012 for a year?
Bullpen wasn’t a problem in the playoffs.