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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Yahoo: Yanks Decline Options on Berkman, Wood, Johnson

Let the shell games begin!

Don Malcolm Posted: October 28, 2010 at 04:19 AM | 26 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Athletic Supporter leads the nation in drifters Posted: October 28, 2010 at 09:28 AM (#3677888)
Brackman gets a salary of $400,000 in the minor leagues and $1 million in the majors. Signed to a $4.55 million, four-year contract after being selected from North Carolina State with the 30th overall draft pick in 2007, Brackman receives a $1 million bonus because the option was exercised. If it had been declined, his contract specified that the Yankees were required to release him.


Hmm, what's the deal with this? I haven't heard of a setup like this before.
   2. Dewey, Steven Wright Wannabe and Soupuss Posted: October 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM (#3677893)
Hmm, what's the deal with this? I haven't heard of a setup like this before.

I haven't heard of it for a draft pick before, but it's a fairly common clause for ex-NPB ballplayers.
   3. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: October 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM (#3677903)
I haven't heard of it for a draft pick before, but it's a fairly common clause for ex-NPB ballplayers.
Guess who his agent is.
   4. jwb Posted: October 28, 2010 at 12:46 PM (#3677915)
Spreading an initial signing bonus out over a number of years is common for multi-sport athletes. If Brackman wants to go back to playing basketball, he loses the future bonus payments.
   5. Dewey, Steven Wright Wannabe and Soupuss Posted: October 28, 2010 at 12:53 PM (#3677919)
Spreading an initial signing bonus out over a number of years is common for multi-sport athletes.

The part that's not common is the clause that the Yankees have to release him if certain conditions aren't met.
   6. The Essex Snead Posted: October 28, 2010 at 01:03 PM (#3677925)
Semi-off-topic (mostly stupid) contract question: if a player has a player option in his contract, but was released by the team with which he signed that contract, & gets picked up by another team mid-season off waivers, that original contract (& everything tied to it) is null & void, & his new team's not liable for the player option, right?
   7. Dewey, Steven Wright Wannabe and Soupuss Posted: October 28, 2010 at 01:14 PM (#3677931)
if a player has a player option in his contract, but was released by the team with which he signed that contract, & gets picked up by another team mid-season off waivers, that original contract (& everything tied to it) is null & void, & his new team's not liable for the player option, right?

Getting released and getting selected off waivers are two different things, but either way, the contract is still valid.

If Team B selects a player off waivers from team A, that means that Team B is assuming the contract as-is. If team A releases a player, then Team A still has to abide by the contract (including whatever clauses that kick in if the player gets released, which would inevitably include buyouts of options). If Team B then signs the player to a mid-year contract, any money they pay (almost always the pro-rated league minimum) goes to Team A, not to the player.
   8. Bitter Calculus Instructor Posted: October 28, 2010 at 04:24 PM (#3678120)
The headline writer could have put "Yankees decline options on Lance, Wood, Johnson" what a missed opportunity.
   9. TerpNats Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:24 PM (#3678184)
I wish the Yankees had a player with the last name of Robert. Then "Yankees decline option on Robert, Wood, Johnson" would have brought a smile or two.

Well, at least around New Brunswick.
   10. The Piehole of David Wells, Depends Salesman Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:27 PM (#3678187)
What is wrong with Nick Johnson? He's played only ~170 games in the last 3 years combined!
   11. Pat Rapper's Delight Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:31 PM (#3678190)
What is wrong with Nick Johnson?

Pick a body part, any body part.
   12. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:34 PM (#3678194)
Pick a body part, any body part.

Dude, gelatin molds don't have parts. Johnson's trouble is clearly as excess of wiggling.
   13. Matthew E Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:47 PM (#3678206)
The headline writer could have put "Yankees decline options on Lance, Wood, Johnson" what a missed opportunity.


And where's Chien-Ming Wang when we need him?
   14. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:52 PM (#3678216)
And where's Chien-Ming Wang when we need him?

<left hand desperately trying to stop right hand from reaching keyboard>

In your mom!

<right hand fist pump!>
   15. Lassus Posted: October 28, 2010 at 05:56 PM (#3678222)
The Mets could use Wood.


There's really no way to say that properly.
   16. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: October 28, 2010 at 06:00 PM (#3678225)
Penis.
   17. Jittery McFrog Posted: October 28, 2010 at 06:42 PM (#3678267)
Yanks lose Wood, cut off injured Johnson; Wang now long gone
   18. Lassus Posted: October 28, 2010 at 06:49 PM (#3678281)
SERIOUSLY, though, I think the Mets could use Kerry as a player. I wonder what his salary demands would be?
   19. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 28, 2010 at 09:24 PM (#3678455)
I liked Berkman. Probably wasn't worth the amt if the option but can they offer him arb?
   20. The District Attorney Posted: October 28, 2010 at 10:30 PM (#3678497)
SERIOUSLY, though, I think the Mets could use Kerry as a player. I wonder what his salary demands would be?
Y'know, having K-Rod set Wood up in order to avoid K-Rod's Contract Option of Doom would be defensible as a legitimate personnel move... I think...
   21. RobertMachemer Posted: October 28, 2010 at 10:44 PM (#3678506)

In your mom!

<right hand fist pump!>


Um...
   22. Biff isn't really an apt handle anymore Posted: October 28, 2010 at 10:45 PM (#3678507)
I had already forgotten about Chien-Ming Wang. The arguments we used to have about him...
   23. Athletic Supporter leads the nation in drifters Posted: October 28, 2010 at 10:58 PM (#3678513)
Then "Yankees decline option on Robert, Wood, Johnson" would have brought a smile or two.


Eh, Robert Wood Johnson doesn't look like more than a 4th outfielder at best at this point.
   24. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: October 29, 2010 at 08:05 AM (#3679127)
Pete LaCock, you were born 20 years too soon for the internet.
   25. Greg (U)K Posted: October 29, 2010 at 08:40 AM (#3679133)
Crazy to think Wang won 38 games in 2 years. What was he up to this year?
   26. Infinite Yost (Voxter) Posted: October 29, 2010 at 08:52 AM (#3679135)
What was he up to this year?


With the pump and the pills, about 8.5 inches. Solid girth, too.

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