BCEagle74 {l Wrote}:bignick33 {l Wrote}:Red Sox should go after Jeter just to be dicks.
Rumor had it they were trying to move Scutaro too on ESPN?
Jeter has no range, but could hit 20+ homers in Fenway -- or not?
It is not an impossibility. Jeter is a $6-8M ballplayer for 2 years... age 39.
My guess is he gets $18M for 3 --or $38M too much.
You need shortstops to gobble up the 1-2 hits up the middle and in the hole with the overwhelming number of righty batters and that is 250+ outs Jeter is not getting to.
Gold Glove doesn't include range and getting to those balls..
I'll drink that potion for $45M for 3
I was real close ---- I figured $51/3 for a player worth $15/2.
$30 Million in good will writeoff and Jeter is one arrogant ass!
Source: Yanks, Derek Jeter at impasseEmail Print Comments88 By Wallace Matthews
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NEW YORK -- Negotiations between the Yankees and Derek Jeter are at a standstill until Jeter and his agent, Casey Close,
"drink the reality potion," according to a source close to the negotiations.
According to the source, a baseball industry executive who has knowledge of both sides' position, the Yankees are not budging from the three-year, $45 million offer they made to Jeter earlier this month, nor has Jeter moved off his demand for a longer contract believed to be in the area of $23-$25 million per season.
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No talks took place over the holiday weekend and none are currently scheduled. Neither Yankees general manager Brian Cashman nor Close immediately returned messages seeking comment early Monday.
Last week, Cashman told ESPN New York: "We understand his contributions to the franchise and our offer has taken them into account. We've encouraged him to test the market and see if there's something he would prefer other than this. If he can, fine. That's the way it works."
A team source said Cashman's statement was not intended to be an ultimatum, but an invitation to comparison-shop around the league, with the belief that no other team would match or exceed the Yankees' offer.
The baseball industry source said the Yankees have provided Jeter and Close with detailed statistical and market analysis to support their contract offer, including comparisons between Jeter and other shortstops and middle infielders throughout baseball.
That is the way Jeter's last contract, the 10-year, $189 million deal that expired with the end of the 2010 World Series, was negotiated, based on Jeter's contention and the Yankees concurrence that Jeter was the second-best shortstop in the game, behind Alex Rodriguez, who had just signed a 10-year, $252 million deal with the Texas Rangers.
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This time, the Jeter side is said to not want Jeter's value to be judged against that of other shortstops, preferring to base his worth on his legacy as an all-time great Yankee. The next highest-paid shortstop, Florida's Hanley Ramirez, is nearly 10 years younger than the 36-year-old Jeter, hits for more power (21 HRs last year) and in 2010, hit 30 points higher, .300 to .270. He will be paid $11 million in 2011.
"They've changed the rules this time around," the source said of the Jeter camp.