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01/07: Arizona Republic Reporting Johnson Signed

Posted by: James

As Patrick and Pete A. mentioned earlier, the AZ Republic is saying that the D'Backs and Randy Johnson have come together on a contract.

The deal won’t become official until Monday after Johnson, 43, completes and passes a full physical in the Valley. But there is strong reason to believe that won’t be an issue and that Johnson will then by introduced during a news conference on Tuesday at Chase Field.

Johnson and his representatives agreed to a contract extension for the 2008 season, which could pay him anywhere from $10 to $14 million or more. The Yankees will pick up $2 million of his $16 million salary for this season, and some of that base pay may be deferred into next year’s contract.

By the way, anyone else noticed Luiz Vizcaino's righty/lefty splits? .227/.308/.394 for his career against lefties (and .163/.281/.288/.569 last season though righties hit him and hit him well). Considering that Mike Myers is the only lefty in the bullpen right now, I'd think that Cashman gave those splits a good amount of thought.

Hat tip to David Pinto's Baseball Musings for the AZ Republic link.

Comments

Patrick wrote:

Cool. The pen is looking very nice. ;)

01/08 10:42:02

Vinny wrote:

I'm a little worried about the pen... We dont have a solid lefty in the pen. He have a pen thats full of righties: farnsworth, proctor, bruney, britton, vizcaino now, mariano of course thats all of the top of my head.. We have mike myers as a lefty the only lefty i can think of.. I would like to see a good lefty come in then i would be satisfied..
Although I have heard that if the yankees acquire roger clemens that Kei Igawa would go to the pen. Which i wouldn't mind seeing..

01/08 18:41:49

Seamus wrote:

I think there's a good chance that Ron Villone will be back depending on what kind of money he can get elsewhere. There hasn't been so much word on him so maybe we can land him on the cheap. Remember also that under the new CBA, players who deny or are not offered arbitration may sign with any team at any time, eliminating the old rule in which the player would not be allowed to resign until May 1st.

01/08 22:44:38

Sensei Tom wrote:

I'm glad we got Vizcaino but what about Ross Ohlendorf and Steven Jackson, and shortstop Alberto Gonzalez. Does anybody know anything about them?
Thanks,
Sensei Tom

01/09 19:45:35

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