Manny Officially Signs With Dodgers
After weeks of back-and-forth, Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers finally came to an agreement and the outfielder will report to Arizona this week to take a physical and start spring training.
The Dodgers and Ramirez agreed to a two-year, $45 million deal that includes an option for Manny to opt out after one season.
This deal is not far off from the deals that were very close to being made in the last week or two, with the money not changing much and the opt out clause remaining. This deal includes a no-trade clause, but no other details are known at this time.
While I understand that the Dodgers needed to bring Manny back in order to compete this year, I can’t understand how they let him win the negotiations.
The Dodgers held all the cards in this situation. They were one of two teams in baseball that were interested in adding Ramirez to their roster this year, and the other, the San Francisco Giants, couldn’t afford him. When you have no one else competing with you to sign a player, how do you lose the negotiation?
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said he was starting all over at square one in the negotiations after Ramirez and his agent, Scott Boras, passed on the last deal. So what did he do? He signed them to the exact same offer, but only changed the things that Boras didn’t want. That’s not negotiating, that’s being abused. McCourt and GM Ned Colletti should not be allowed to sit at the same table as Boras again.
Honestly, a six-year old could have done better in the last week than Colletti and McCourt did. How you let the agent and player get the upper hand when you are the only team in negotiations and the only team that is going to be. When the options are sign, play ball and get paid or sit out the year, you don’t let the agent and player get their terms.
Having said all that, Ramirez returning to the Dodgers puts them right in the hunt for another NL West crown, something that could not be said about a Manny-less Dodger squad.
But they still screwed this up.
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