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  • October 30, 2007 04:49 PM ET

Johan Santana will make $25 million

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Johan Santana will make $25 million when he signs his big contract.

The question is will Santana play with the Twins next year and then go sign with another team or get traded in the off-season and then see what happens.

One thing we know is the Twins will not pay him the money. The only way he stays with the Twins is Santana takes a hometown discount and signs a lesser deal for about $18 to $20 million a year.

A lot of teams will make a bid for Santana wheither it is trading for him, or signing him as a free agent.

Teams like the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Angels, etc. will make bids for Santana.

Santana is the best lefthanded pitcher in baseball if not the best in baseball. He has won 2 Cy Young Awards. He is a 3 time All-Star. He is 93-44 with a 3.22 ERA and has strikeout 1,381 for his career.

I know giving a pitcher a big contract is a bit risky. But Santana for the most part has been healthy. He probably will get a 8-year deal for about $25 million a year.


You just said why he wont get it. Its too risky. A pitcher has never gotten paid that and only one player has gotten it. There has never been a pitcher paid that much for that reason. If he wins 20 thats 2 mil per start. The Yankees didnt even pay Clemens 25 million to come back, and that was a risk that really didnt work out the way they wanted it to.

I agree that its going to be a huge contract that he deserves, just not that much. Maybe 20-23 million.


Johan Santana is going to get the money.

Someone will sign him to a big contract that will far exceed all the other contracts that other pitchers have gotten.

The highest pay pitcher, Barry Zito of the San Francisco Giants makes $18 million. Santana is going to make triple the salary Zito makes because he is the best pitcher in baseball.

He is that good. That's why he will make about $25 million.


OK first off 25 mil is not triple 18. I never said he wasnt going to get the money, never said he wasnt the best, but he aint gonna get 25 mil.


What other pitcher is going to make more than $20 Million?

Name me another pitcher who is going to make more than $20 million.

Josh Beckett? Maybe he can make more than $20 million. He still has 2 years left on his contract. But he will command a lot of money just like Santana will.

When Santana signs his big contract, he will be the highest paid pitcher in Baseball. Will he make $25 million a year? YES!


This isnt about 20 million dollars. What does Beckett have to do with anything anyway. This is about Santana. Quit trying to go back and make it look like your dropping your number. IT IS ABOUT $25 MILLION NOT 20. He will be the highest paid and he will no doubt make 20 and deserves it, but he wont get to 25. Like I said in my first arguement it may be 23 at best.


I still dont know why you were even saying something about $20 million when I have already said he will get that and u say he will get $25 mil.

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October 30, 2007  05:04 PM ET
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I doubt any team will sign a pitcher to a big-big contract after what happened to Zito.

October 30, 2007  05:05 PM ET
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25 million....a year?

October 30, 2007  05:06 PM ET
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A good example terpsfan

October 30, 2007  05:13 PM ET
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You'd have to be an idiot to sign a pitcher to an 8-yr deal. 5yr. for a pitcher is extremely risky, 8 years is brain dead.

October 30, 2007  05:29 PM ET
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Wins and Losses...Wow...O.K....put him on a team that scores runs, and this guy leads the world in Wins and winning %. He had 18 games this year where he got 3 ER or less of support...compare that to Beckett who had, like, 6 games where he got 3 or less runs of support...

He's the only SP in the AL this season to be in the top 7 in ERA (7th), WHIP(1st), BAA (3rd), IP (6th) and Ks (2nd).

He has 2 CYs in 4 years as a full time starter and should have won in 2005 as well. Only thing that stopped him was wins cause dominated Colon in every other category...

So, 25 million? Not sure...BUT he deserves to be the highest paid SP in baseball cause he's the best there is...and has been since 2004....

October 30, 2007  05:57 PM ET
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The $$$ per year won't matter much. It's the length of the deal that's going to make or break it for most teams.

$25mil is awfully high, but not unprecedented. Clemens got $28mil prorated, this year. Even so, Pitchers are too risky to give a long term deal to no matter the $$$ or how good they are.

 
October 30, 2007  06:58 PM ET
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