Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Joe Mauer Contract Extension Talks Heat Up

On Monday, it was rumored that Twins catcher Joe Mauer had signed a 10 year contract extension to stay in Minnesota.  While that rumor has since been refuted, the Twins and the reigning AL MVP are making progress on a contract extension.  Somewhere, thousands of Yankee and Red Sox fans are a bit disappointed. 

If Mauer does sign a contract extension to spend the prime of his career in Minnesota, Yankee and Red Sox fans should be disappointed that they miss out on one of baseball's best player, but fans of the game of baseball should be thankful.  As a Yankee fan, it's fun for me to watch my team go get just about anyone they want by throwing money at players.  It's fun to think about who the Yankees will sign in the off-season and how good he will make the team.  As a baseball fan, though, I realize how horrible it is for the game for the Yankees to do that. 

I hope Joe Mauer stays in Minnesota for a very long time.  He's a great player and teams not named the Yankees deserve great players.  In fact, the Yankees probably shouldn't be able to have that many great players.  They can sign whoever they want because they play in a big market and have money.  To level the playing field, baseball needs a salary cap and a salary floor.  Teams like the Yankees should not be able to spend $500 million during one off-season on CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett.  On the other hand, teams like the Marlins should have to spend money on someone. 




Related Posts by Subject



3 comments:

Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Mike Davis said...

If the Yankees sign Mauer, baseball can go to hell. That team is loaded every year, it's disgusting. Think about all the all-stars they DIDN'T keep. Randy Johnson....Javier Vasquez (the first time)...Kevin Brown....it's a joke. C'mon, Minnesota, do what's right.

Anonymous said...

Cool heart, and shot on the mercy Dragonica Gold of, Ling Po crazy way to EVE Isk kill, he began to love the taste of blood, like to see these cowardly FFXI GIL monsters in front of him like the poor, like the thrill of the muscles across the Bing Ren ... ...

He entered the 49th floor, the Lineage 2 Adena iron front of the room was familiar. The middle of the Last Chaos Gold room there is an old man sitting there, is close their eyes meditatively. It Knight Online Gold seemed that the advent of Ivy Ling Po do not know.

Ivy Ling Po stood there quietly, he Flyff Penya has felt the old man out of a strong body radiates a gas, he stared at the old man: "When I first arrived someone asked EQ2 Gold me to defeat the forty-nine-story monster, now left This last layer of the, no one thought was a powerful human masters, could I then, he 2Moons Dil takes a fight? "Ivy Ling Po Zi Cun," Although I experienced 48 times the fighting, but also learn many new moves can be With my present strength, but also far behind him, it appears was a World War II had.