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06/26/2010 -
The Yankees practically lined up to greet Joe Torre in Los Angeles. Roy Halladay treated his first start against the Blue Jays like any other. Justin and B.J. Upton's mom didn't know who to cheer for when her sons faced each other for the first time.
It was reunion night in major league baseball Friday.
The fun continues Saturday, too, when New York Mets ace Johan Santana goes up against his old team, the Minnesota Twins.
``That's what makes kind of the interleague thing click and makes it fun is that, you know, you get guys like Halladay pitching against the Blue Jays and Johan pitching against the Twins,'' Mets third baseman David Wright said. ``You know, it makes for interesting story lines. So, I'm excited to go see it.''
Torre and the Yankees were together - if in different dugouts - again. The manager led New York to four World Series titles in 12 years but left after the 2007 season and was hired by the Dodgers.
Yankees captain Derek Jeter stretched at the same time he talked to Torre, who then hugged manager Yankees manager Joe Girardi. Torre hugged catcher Jorge Posada and kissed him on the cheek after chatting up reliever Mariano Rivera and Yankees fan Billy Crystal.
``The thing you realize being around him so much is how he treats people. He treats everyone fairly, he doesn't treat them all the same, but he treats them fairly,'' Jeter said. ``He takes the time to get to know people.''
One player who didn't talk to Torre was Alex Rodriguez, who was portrayed unfavorably in Torre's 2009 book ``The Yankee Years.''
Rodriguez hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning, though, leading the Yankees to a 2-1 victory.
In Philadelphia, Halladay threw seven scoreless innings in his first start against his former team in a 9-0 win. He was wearing a road uniform but the series was moved from Toronto to Philly because of the G20 Summit.
``I did the best I could to take emotions out of it and go out and pitch,'' Halladay said. ``It's something you look back on down the road.''
Halladay is glad he got this start out of the way and can spend the next two days catching up with his old teammates.
Halladay won the 2003 AL Cy Young Award and went 148-76 with a 3.43 ERA in 12 seasons with the Blue Jays. The Phillies pursued him aggressively last July, but ended up getting Cliff Lee. They finally acquired Halladay last December in a blockbuster trade hours before sending Lee to Seattle.
Santana had to wait more than two seasons to face the Twins, for whom he pitched from 2000-07 and won two AL Cy Young Awards while helping the Twins capture four division titles.
He had some fun Friday, getting reacquainted with his former teammates at Citi Field. He'll be much more serious Saturday, though, when he starts for the Mets in the middle game of the interleague series against the Twins.
Edwin Jackson's no-hitter overshadowed the first meeting between the Upton brothers, Tampa Bay's B.J. and Arizona's Justin, who despite being relatively close in age had never competed with or against each other at any level before Friday.
The Uptons have about 65 relatives and friends in town for the series, and their mother, Yvonne, wore a jersey bearing the names and numbers of both above the notation: ``my sons.''
Diamondbacks manager A.J. Hinch joked with Justin before the game that he was tempted to post a mock lineup that didn't include the right fielder.
``I said, 'Would you have been in here (to protest)?''' Hinch said. ``And he said, `My mother would have been in here.'''Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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