This has been the busiest offseason for the Washington Nationals that I can remember. General Manager Mike Rizzo has spent his time wheeling and dealing, signing players to mega-contracts and minor league/spring training invite deals. It's entirely possible that one or two of these deals has completely missed your radar. Let's bring all these deals into the light of day just to see all of them in one place.
Novemeber 29: LHP Jimmy Barthmaier - Minor League Contract
December 5: OF Jayson Werth - 7 year/$126 Million Contract
December 14: OF Matt Stairs - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 15: OF Archie Gilbert - Minor League Contract
December 15: OF Jonathan Van Every - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 15: OF Buck Coats - Minor League Contract
December 16: RHP Henry Ramirez and OF Corey Brown - Trade
December 16: RHP Chien-Ming Wang - 1 year/$1 Million Contract
December 17: 2B Matt Antonelli - Minor League Contract
December 17: RHP Chad Gaudin - Minor League Contact/Invite to Spring Training
December 20: INF Brian Bixler - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 20: 1B Michael Aubrey - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 20: RHP Joe Bisenius - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 20: OF Jeff Frazier - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 20: RHP Tim Wood - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
December 21: RHP Ryan Mattheus - Major League Contract
December 23: RHP Harvey Garcia - Minor League Contract
December 23: LHP Sean Burnett - 2 year/$3.95 Million Extension
January 4: 1B Adam LaRoche - 2 year/$15 Million Contract
January 16: LHP Tom Gorzelanny - Trade
January 17: INF Alex Cora - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training - $900K
January 19: UTIL Jerry Hairston - 1 year/$2 Million Contract
January 24: RHP Todd Coffey - 1 year/$1.35 Million Contract
February 2: RHP Cla Meredith - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
February 2: RHP Adam Olbrychowski - Trade
February 2: RHP Shairon Martis - Invite to Spring Training
February 3: OF Laynce Nix - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
February 4: LHP Matt Chico - Major League Contract (Not on 40-Man)
February 4: C Carlos Maldonado - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
February 4: RHP J.D. Martin - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
February 4: 1B Kevin Barker - Minor League Contract/Invite to Spring Training
February 4: RHP Josh Wilkie - Invite to Spring Training
February 4: C Jhonatan Solano - Invite to Spring Training
February 4: C Derek Norris - Invite to Spring Training
February 8: 2B Alex Cintron - Minor League Contract
As you can see its been a very active offseason for the Nationals and GM Mike Rizzo. Though most of the deals have been Minor League Contracts, they shouldn't be overlooked in terms of value; organizational depth is a very important thing.
Be sure to stay tuned to Capitol Baseball for all the latest moves!
Tomorrow, we're going to post our pre-Spring Training Opening Day line up and rotation predictions. It should be a good rundown, so stop by tomorrow morning!
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Nats' Crazy Contract Clauses
Today, ESPN's Jayson Stark put together a fantastic list of "small print" catches from this year's contract signings. Here's a summary of the Nats have two players that have made the list. I highly recommend you head over there to read Stark's article, though. It's really fascinating. Especially the part about the SIX Pirates players, including former Nat Scott Olsen, that will get big bonuses if they are named World Series MVP. Yea... on to more realistic possibilities...
Jayson Werth - No surprises here. The hundred million dollar plus man's deal is not related to his beard though, unfortunately. It's written directly into Werth's contract that he will wear #28 in DC. No negotiation between him and Michael Morse about this, it seems. As long as Jayson's getting paid in DC, he'll be wearing #28.
Chien-Ming Wang - As Stark says, Wang's contract is incredibly incentive laden, so it's not surprising he's got a weird one here or there. But if this former AL pitcher out hits all NL pitchers in 2011 (should he even appear in a game), he'll earn an extra $50,000. If that happens though, it's probably the other millions that the Nationals will be more excited about, because it means he'll be winning and pitching a bucket of innings.
Honorable Mention former Nats 1B Adam Dunn - I don't mean to reopen old wounds here folks, but this honorable mention is due here. Dunn's new contract with the White Sox, where he'll be mainly a DH, will pay him $25,000 if he wins a Gold Glove. Not sure it would have made much of a difference if he was still playing in DC, though. (see: Pujols, Albert)
Jayson Werth - No surprises here. The hundred million dollar plus man's deal is not related to his beard though, unfortunately. It's written directly into Werth's contract that he will wear #28 in DC. No negotiation between him and Michael Morse about this, it seems. As long as Jayson's getting paid in DC, he'll be wearing #28.
Chien-Ming Wang - As Stark says, Wang's contract is incredibly incentive laden, so it's not surprising he's got a weird one here or there. But if this former AL pitcher out hits all NL pitchers in 2011 (should he even appear in a game), he'll earn an extra $50,000. If that happens though, it's probably the other millions that the Nationals will be more excited about, because it means he'll be winning and pitching a bucket of innings.
Honorable Mention former Nats 1B Adam Dunn - I don't mean to reopen old wounds here folks, but this honorable mention is due here. Dunn's new contract with the White Sox, where he'll be mainly a DH, will pay him $25,000 if he wins a Gold Glove. Not sure it would have made much of a difference if he was still playing in DC, though. (see: Pujols, Albert)
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