Department of I-Told-You-So
Remember when I was making fun of some old guy for saying the Twins should sign Joe Mauer to a ten-year, $100M extension? Well, it turns out the Twins did manage to extend Mauer, but… not for quite such a paltry contract. They landed him for 8-and-$184M, which is a complete fortune by anybody’s standards. It’s an eight-year contract with an average value of $23 million. This deal is richer than the one Mark Teixeira signed last year, and that was the New York goddamn Yankees. It is, I believe, the second-richest contract in all of baseball (trailing only Alex Rodriguez).
So, you’re right, old guy! That money will be no problem at all for the Twins to come up with.
