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Is Manny close to running out of options?
Looks like "Vic the Brick" on LA's AM 570 was right after all. Despite the denials of Dodgers GM Ned Colletti earlier this week, the club was talking to Manny and has offered him a contract: a two-year deal worth $25 million this season and $20 million for the next — providing the left fielder chooses to exercise the second-year option, according to the Los Angeles Times.
(NOTE: National Sports Examiner Paula Duffy and San Francisco Giants Examiner Theo Fightmaster are also covering this story.)
If that offer is accurate, it looks like the Dodgers are moving backwards. Previous offers were for two years guaranteed, with an option for a third. It's also nice to read that the Dodgers — in discussions with agent Scott Boras this week — initially offered only one year, and Boras had to ask for a second. The Dodgers' response: That second year will be optional.
Ouch. That's gotta be humbling to the SuperAgent. But not even Boras (or Manny) is immune from the realities of a struggling economy. As I've mentioned a few times, and as LADodgerTalk also notes, the Dodgers' hand has been strengthened by the fact that no other club is interested in signing the future Hall of Famer.
The irony, of course, is that Manny would have been better off simply accepting the Dodgers' initial offer late last year of $45 million guaranteed for two years and an option for $15 million more in a third year.
Tim Brown at Yahoo Sports reports:
Boras did not immediately accept the offer, but a source said he delivered the offer to his client – a sign of progress because the first two offers were dismissed immediately by Boras. Ramirez, 36, has sought a four-year deal, but only the Dodgers are known to have made any offer at all.
Manny ought to just accept this deal and be done with it. He's said in the past that he leaves such things to his agent to handle. If Manny means that, the pen ought to be scribbling as I type this.
Dodger fans are rightly sick of this sour courtship, and if Manny declines, the club should just cut bait for good and see how Manny fares selling his bat to the rest of a league that seems to have no interest in him. The Dodgers offense will already be pretty formidable without him — though, naturally, potentially devastating with him.
Bottom line: I'd be shocked if Manny isn't in the lineup for exhibition games in Arizona by Monday.
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