How about Joe Mauer’s contract extension? The eight-year, $184 million deal will ensure that Twins fans will see their hometown hero play half his games at Target Field through at least 2018, when Mauer will turn 35. The contract is the richest in major league history for a catcher, but will be a bargain if Mauer keeps winning batting titles like he has the last two years (and three of the last four) and continues to be the five-tool star all General Managers would love to build a team around. Gold Glove-winning catchers who can hit for both average and power don’t grow on trees.
Jim Hendry
26 March 2010
and Glavine will remain in the game in some capacity, the former serving as an assistant to Cubs GM Jim Hendry, and the latter as a special assistant to Braves President John Schuerholz.
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20 December 2007
f the few teams outside my hometown that I do root for...), I'd be a little concerned.
Jim Hendry, Cubs GM, recently introduced their big outfield acquisition of the offseason - the supposed gap-hitting-machine of Kosuke Fukodome. Fukodome's career stats in Japan are impressive - .305 batting average, .397 on base percentage and a .593 slugging percentage - thus, the Cubbies sent him $48 million U.S. dollars (yeah, that's 5,420,469,100 yen...cha-ching!) to do his thing in right field for them for the next four years.
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