LaRoche Back to the Nationals...
Well, it looks like one of the big boppers left on the market, Adam LaRoche, has gone ahead and re-signed with the Washington Nationals.
From Nats Insider: The Nationals' unwillingness to
budge on their longstanding, two-year offer to Adam LaRoche paid off in
the end. LaRoche today agreed to the deal after failing to find another
club willing to give the free agent first baseman the three-year
contract he sought all along.
The contract guarantees $24 million, according to a source familiar
with the details. LaRoche will earn salaries of $10 million in 2013 and
$12 million in 2014, with a $2 million buyout in 2015 if either side
elects not to pick up a mutual option.
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Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo never budged on his two-year
offer, explaining his rationale to LaRoche in person: With every other
position on the field locked up through at least 2105, Rizzo wanted to
ensure at least some long-term roster flexibility.
So LaRoche set off to find if any other organizations were willing to
offer three year contracts, with the Red Sox, Rangers and Orioles among
the potential suitors. None of those clubs, though, was willing to go to
a third year, in part because none wanted to give up the draft pick
that would have been required after the Nationals made a $13.3 million
qualifying offer to LaRoche in early November.
Rizzo all along felt that qualifying offer -- which also would have
guaranteed draft pick compensation to the Nationals had LaRoche signed
elsewhere -- would help increase the chances of the first baseman
staying in D.C. And the GM was proven correct.
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