Last week we gave out a copy of Jane Leavy's new book that everyone is talking about, the New York Times bestseller, "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood." The Tuesday Trivia winner was Richard Iurilli and we want to congratulate him on winning the first book (it will be in the mail very shortly). While Ben W is diligently reading through the book to write a review on the blog and Richard will be starting to read his shortly, we have two more books to give away.Here's how we're going to do it: go on to Twitter and reply to us at @NoYoureaTowel and let us know what you think Derek Jeter's next contract will look like (years and dollar amount) with the hashtag #NextJeterContract. So a sample tweet would look something like this "@NoYoureaTowel I think that Derek Jeter will get a 3 year, $50 million contract #NextJeterContract".
If you don't have Twitter, you can let us know in the comments below as well. You have until Friday to get your guesses in. If you retweet this blog post (you can do so just by clicking that button below the post), you will double your chances to win.
On Friday I'll select one random Twitter guesser to get a book (you must be following NoYoureaTowel to be eligible--and remember, retweeting gets you 2x the chances!). The last book will go to the person who comes the closest to the actual Derek Jeter contract when that is signed (and can be on Twitter or here in the comments). The crowdsourcing answers will be compiled into a blog post so make sure to send good guesses. You don't know when he'll actually sign that contract, so make sure to get your guesses in quickly just in case he signs this week! Good luck!
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4 years $15 million per, with an option for year 4. Interesting to look at Jeter's career numbers and see how durable he has been. Jorge can play some DH this year, then you can use Jeter and Arod at DH for a couple years. I refuse to bury Jeter since he had a great year in 2009, and am willing to look at the last 2 years vs. how bad he was this year. I also could care less how much $ he makes...... it ain't my money, and his salary has nothing to do with how much a beer is at the ball game.
ReplyDeleteThere are actually some reports out that the Yankees believe that Eduardo Nunez will be Jeter's successor.
ReplyDeleteNunez sounds good to me. let's use 2011 as a year of transition, work in the youth of Nova and Albaladejo and maybe use Moseley as a starter also. I do not expect Pettite to resign. So transition nunez and Montero into basic full time players, while you DH a combo of Jeter, A-Rod and a lot of Posada. Then you pick up Werth and make Gardner a platoon guy, and a 4th outfielder if you have injuries.
ReplyDeleteForget Cliff Lee he stinks, I don't want him. let's get somebody else. Let's get a younger guy. Just kidding about him stinking.....
Gotta love seeing Mitchie Kramer win a World Series!
I'm fine with going young but then signing a guy like Werth and demoting a guy like Gardner doesn't make sense. I know that Gardner had a so-so second-half and playoffs but this guy is a starting leftfielder on every Major League team. He's relatively young, cheap, and controllable and gives the Yankees an element they lack especially as Jeter and A-Rod continue to age. There is no reason to make him a 4th OF.
ReplyDeleteHe will be overpaid and the Yanks really do like to waste money. I'll say 5 Yr/ $95 Mil.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess 4 years for $78M. That way the Yanks can save hearing some criticism by saying that the average salary is less than $20M a year ($19.5M).
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