SF Giants Rumors – This is What Sandoval and Zito Are Worth!
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by admin in SF Giants Rumors
Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle says Bobby Evans told him that he and Pablo Sandoval’s agent are negotiating only a one-year deal for the Panda. The Giants are not ready to buy out any of Sandoval’s future arbitration years.The Giants use precedent as a guideline for negotiating and setting salaries with their younger players, but there is no recent precedent for the Giants position player hitting .330 with 25 homers and 90 RBI’s in his first full season.
Tim Lincecum (last spring) and the Giants agreed to a $650,000 deal, but he had a few more months of service time than Sandoval. Schulman thinks Sandoval might get less than that for 2010.
King of Cali thoughts: Giants fans have nothing to worry about. Sandoval is in the same boat as Lincecum. Which means he’s not going anywhere for a while. He’s still under the Giants control, and I’m sure the Giants will definitely try to lock him up long term as he gets closer to becoming a free agent.
I did some due diligence of my own today. I wanted to check his (Sandoval) value for his last season’s performance. Sandoval was worth $23.3 million, better than I even expected. I’m sure the Giants are happy to get that kind of production from someone that made less than a million.
Okay since I did the research on Sandoval to see how much his numbers actually should have paid him. I figured I would have to do the same for Barry Zito. Everyone know’s he’s overpaid for the production he’s giving the Giants at this point of his contract. Well with that said. He should have made $10 million last year by going 10-13 wit ha 4.03 ERA. All of his numbers factor in to this, but those are the main stats I wanted to add in this post.
~King of Cali
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I agree with you king the Giants maybe cheap but are not going to let panda test free agency.. I think they will lock him up long term I remeber when ppl said they might trade Bonds for Vlad and they didnt then the said they would let him test free agency and they didnt .. Panda I think might get one of those 6 to 8 yr deals if givin th oppertunity .. Also another thing you might consider with good free agent pitchers ready for next yr does that make Cain Expendable??
Interesting numbers, King, nice piece. Two questions: What was Zito actually paid and what was your source of info?