Cole Hamels跟费城人签下15M/Y 这是最后一年仲裁 2012球季结束会成为FA
经纪人的谈话看起来会让他成为自由球员拿到一张可观的长约
以他的年纪跟成绩 平均接近20M/Y的长约应该可以预期的吧
经纪人是没讲到底他的客户值得拿到多少的合约 不过也不会考虑类似织织的5Y/85M
费城GM Ruben Amaro Jr.只说会继续跟经纪人协商试着签下一份长约绑住他
会不会出现一队轮值中有三个平均20M的投手呢?
Cole Hamels今年28岁 生涯ERA+ 126 又是左投 大家觉得他可能拿到多大的合约呢~
Agent expects 'elite' contract for Hamels
One contract watch is over for Cole Hamels and another is just beginning.
Hamels and the Phillies avoided an arbitration hearing when they agreed to a
one-year, $15 million contract on Tuesday
The Phillies already had control of Hamels’ rights for 2012. The only
mystery was how much of a raise would he get from the $9.5 million he made in
2011. Now that the numbers are official, things are about to get really
interesting for Hamels and the Phils.
The 28-year-old lefty will be eligible for free agency at the end of the 2012
season and the big question is: Will he become the Phils’ next
$20-million-per-year talent, joining Ryan Howard, Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay
in that stratosphere?
Agent John Boggs would not put a number on his client’s value on Tuesday
night, but he sure made it sound as if that’s what it’s going to take for
the Phillies to retain Hamels beyond 2012.
“At the appropriate time, Cole is looking to be compensated as one of the
premier left-handed pitchers in baseball,” Boggs said in a telephone
interview from his San Diego office. “Without putting a number on it, we’ll
leave it at the fact that he’s an elite pitcher. Look and see what elite
pitchers are compensated with. Hopefully at the end of the day we’ll be able
to get something done with the Phillies that will reflect that.”
A quick look at some of the top lefties in baseball shows a number of
contracts with average annual values of at least $20 million. One of them
belongs to Lee, whose AAV is $24 million.
While Boggs did not want to put a specific number on Hamels’ value, he made
it clear that he does not consider Jered Weaver’s five-year, $85 million
contract with the Los Angeles Angels to be a valid comparable for his client.
Weaver, who is a year older than Hamels and has similar career numbers,
signed the deal in August. It carries an AAV of $17 million.
“I don’t think it’s a parallel,” Boggs said of Weaver’s deal. “That
contract is great for Jered. I understand it. But he took a different path
and left a lot of money on the table. He came up through the Angels system
and grew up in their backyard. He’s pitching where he grew up. That
situation appeals to him. It’s a similar situation to when I had Tony Gwynn.
“Without getting into specifics of what we’re looking for, the Weaver
situation is unique to Weaver.”
So the Phils would appear to have their work cut out for them in their quest
to retain Hamels longterm. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. does not talk
about the specifics of contract negotiations, but he did say he will continue
to speak with Boggs and try to get a longterm deal done. Boggs said he was
planning to visit with Amaro during spring training in Clearwater. The Phils
have exclusive negotiating rights with Hamels until five days after the 2012
World Series, and Boggs said he hadn’t considered setting any deadlines.
If Hamels stays healthy in 2012 and continues to improve – he had a
career-best 2.79 ERA and finished fifth in NL Cy Young voting in 2011 – he
will have plenty of suitors on the free-agent market. But his preference at
this time is to get something done with the team that drafted him in 2002.
“When you’re this close [to free-agency] you have mixed emotions,” Boggs
said. “But Cole has come through the Phillies organization, and if you asked
him his preference, more than likely he’d want to remain with the Phillies.
That’s how it would be going into the negotiations, but every negotiation is
different. Everything depends on our perceived value of what Cole is worth
and what their perceived value of him is. That will dictate if a long-term
deal gets done. We’ll always give the Phillies every opportunity to secure
him.”
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