New York Yankees Offer Mike Lowell a 4-year Contract for $60 Million
The information was passed on to me that the contract would be fully guaranteed with incentives included. If Lowell was to accept the contract offer, he would be moving from third base to first base. This is because the Yankees are close to finalizing a ten-year $276 million dollar contract with Alex Rodriguez. The signing of Lowell would be a huge steal for the New York Yankees and a huge blow to the Boston Red Sox. Mike Lowell became an instant fan favorite who many do not want to see go.
People in the Red Sox organization were afraid that the Yankees would make an offer like this one. It was understood that Lowell was looking for a deal that offered him more years. The Yankees offer dwarfs the Red Sox offer in both money and years provided. However, it appears the the Red Sox will not change their offer to Mike Lowell. He is already getting up there and age and they believe investing so much money in a player who just had their best season of their career may not be a smart move.
Once again, the New York Yankees have offered Mike Lowell a four year contract for $60 million plus incentives. The next couple of days will be full of questions. Media reports are sure to pick up on this story and put more pressure on the entire situation. Will Mike Lowell be truly happy switching from third base to first base? The question is if the money is really worth making such a large change so late in his career. Hopefully he realizes that he got to wear he is by simply playing third base. Red Sox nation is on the tip of their toes, waiting to hear what the decision will be from Mike Lowell.
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6 Comments
Post a CommentConsider that Lowell was also asked to play first base, something he may of decided was not the best move for him at this time.
I wonder how much of the Yankees' offer to Lowell is true and how much was rumor, possibly by Lowell's camp, to either convince the Red Sox to up their offer in terms of another year or increased dollar amount.
As it is, however, the Red Sox kept Lowell for three years- on year less than Lowell was looking for- and for under $40 million, a substantial decrease than what the Yankees supposedly offered.
Of course, the Yankees' offer could've indeed been a valid offer a week ago, and Lowell could've cost himself the contract if he dawdled before agreeing. That allowed A-Rod to connect with the team to negotiate his ten-year $275 million contract.
If talks between the Yankees and A-Rod fail now, then the Yankees are really going to be hurting.
Lowell signs with Red Sox:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AouwzHVkVUfb8PpvKx_8SpsRvLYF?slug=ap-redsox-lowell&prov=ap&type=lgns
That's what we thought about the offer to Johnny Damon and well we know that one was real
Last word out of Boston had the offer more realistically between $50 and $55 million, but there is also a rumor that this offer may either be off the table or has never existed. I guess that's why we follow off-season baseball, because speculation is half the fun. Good article!
Actually, this article was wrote three days ago. It just took two days to be published (and has been up for one day already) because of myself selecting the wrong option. So please, get your facts straight before commenting.
This news has been floating around since last night, so, no, you haven't broken anything.
And, folks are already talking about this being a phony offer to drive up the price from Boston.