Furcal going back to L.A.

by Scott Christ on Dec 18, 2008 3:16 AM EST in News & Rumors

According to sources familiar with the negotiations, talks between team owner Frank McCourt, general manager Ned Colletti and agents Arn Tellem and Paul Kinzer resulted in a three-year, $30 million deal.
Or a three-year, $33 million deal. Depending.

Nothing with the Furcal signing has been definitive, right until the bitter end. A Dodgers source said the contract is for $30 million and includes a fourth-year option for $12 million, vesting with 600 plate appearances in the third year. Other incentives could bring the total worth of the deal to about $42 million.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press, citing a person familiar with the negotiations, said Furcal will get $7.5 million next season, $9.5 million in 2010 and $13 million in 2011. The deal includes a $13 million team option for 2012 with a $3 million buyout, according to the AP, for a $33 million guarantee.

So after three seasons with the Dodgers, a dead negotiation with the A's, and a signed offer sheet to return to the Braves, Rafael Furcal is just staying where he's been. Go figure!

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Stop, stop!

My head’s all tied up…like a pretzel! I got a pretzel in my head!

by blawk359 on Dec 18, 2008 8:44 AM EST reply actions

it’s like when your friend breaks up with his girlfriend for another girl and so you say all these bad things about her about what you thought about her all along and then he gets back with her and so you have to take back everything bad and say bad things about the other girl and then you find out he’s sticking with the other girl anyways and at this point you just hate them both and miss the days when you would go to bars together instead of being stuck as the awkward single friend who should just drop it.

wasn’t there a seinfeld about this?

by Steve. on Dec 18, 2008 2:07 PM EST reply actions

wtf?

From the jilted Braves article: The Braves agreed to three years before the Dodgers. On Monday night, according to the source, Kinzer asked Wren to fax him a signed term sheet containing the Braves’ offer – three years, $30 million with a fourth-year vesting option. Wren complied on Tuesday morning.

The Braves then believed they had a deal. No member of the Braves’ front office – not Wren, not longtime former GM John Schuerholz – could recall a time when a signed term sheet was not the equivalent of a handshake agreement, ethically – if not legally – binding.

Instead, the Braves believe, Kinzer shopped the term sheet to the Dodgers. That said, the Braves’ offer to Furcal stands.

I didn’t know it was common practice to not shop that info, but if it is then that’s a douche move. IIRC, Tellum was Mussina’s agent.

Librarians are hiding something

by dfa on Dec 18, 2008 6:12 PM EST reply actions