Castro and Cubs reach a seven year deal

Aug 18, 2012

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Castro Extended to 7 year, $60M deal

Got it via text message from ESPN, source is ESPNdeportesLosAngeles.com apparently
Sox fan beat the Cubs fan to it
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BREAKING NEWS: ESPN reports Cubs SS Starlin Castro agrees to 7-year, $60 million extension

 

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Only cause this Cub fan was posting it to his FB page first

 

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Damn....

 

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85Bears4life said:

Damn....

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Is that a good damn or a bad damn?

 

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I just wanted to be able to say a Sox fan reported it first here, only thing that MIGHT and I say might frustrate Rice

 

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Anno Catuli said:

Is that a good damn or a bad damn?

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Lil bit of both.

good to see him extended, but that seems a bit too much...IMO

 

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85Bears4life said:

Lil bit of both.

good to see him extended, but that seems a bit too much...IMO

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Not really too much. You buy out his four years of arbitration and three years of free agency.

It actually breaks down to just under $8.58M per year average.

 

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I just wanted to be able to say a Sox fan reported it first here, only thing that MIGHT and I say might frustrate Rice

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Rice is unbreakable. You can not frustrate him.

 

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I think it's fair, for what the guy will mean to the team, he can be a franchise player, and how many franchise player shorstops do you come across? Tulo, Jeter.... maybe Rollins in his prime but that's a stretch

 

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I know and it pisses ME off :lol:

 

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Cubs might have saved a fortune here to be honest

 

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I'm very happy with this deal. He's gonna get better and aside from unpredictable injury, I just don't see any way this will wind up a bad contract.

 

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still waiting for the twitterverse to catch on to this deal, the text message has been the only source I can find, still searching, hopefully no one jumped the gun on this one as well :lol:

 

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whitesoxman77 said:

still waiting for the twitterverse to catch on to this deal, the text message has been the only source I can find, still searching, hopefully no one jumped the gun on this one as well :lol:

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ESPNJ twitter (as well as ESPN alerts) and WSD have the news out first.

 

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Option is for 16 million I guess... so 76 million total

 

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From ESPN: Castro deal becomes $76 million if option is picked up.

 

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http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/8280480/chicago-cubs-starlin-castro-agrees-seven-year-60-million-extension-source
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Sweet. Good to lock him up for a minute.