SportsDayDFW has >the details of the contract offer to Yu Darvish uses Matsuzaka’s contract as a model for Yu Darvish’s.
+ Signing bonus of $2 million.
+ Salaries of $6 million for 2007, $8 million for 2008, $8 million for 2009, $8 million for 2010, $10 for 2011, $10 million for 2012.
+ Salaries for 2009-10 would have increased to $10 million had he won the Cy Young in 2007 or ’08, or finished among the top three for the Cy Young for 2007 and ’08, or won the Most Valuable Player in 2007 or ’08, or finished among the top five in the MVP in 2007 and ’08.
+ Salaries for 2011 and ‘ 12 would have increased to $12 milloin had he won the Cy Young in 2009 or ’10, or finished among the top three for the Cy Young in 2009 and ’10, or won the Most Valuable Player in 2009 or ’10, or finished among the top five in the MVP in 2009 and ’10.
Basically, his guaranteed money is about what the Rangers will pay the Fighters. That’s consistent with the Daisuke Matsuzaka deal. He also gets plane tickets, housing allowances and the number 18. We’ll see if he signs.
Correction: I misread the original article. It was about Daisuke Matsuzaka’s contract, not Darvish’s.
You’ve labelled this wrong, and should have said “This is Dice-K’s contract, on which Darvish’s may be modelled.” Darvish is extremely unlikely to win the Cy Young in 2008.
jim » Thanks. I’ve corrected the post.