Aoki will be Brewer, deal is multi-year...
Edit: Haudricourt confirms signing, deal will be 2yrs. Tweet here
Heyman says there is an option for 3rd year.
Edit:Full article available, and here it is.
Edit: Sponichi says the deal is $1M-1.5M/yr
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Hopefully not premature:
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 17, 2012 4:17 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Haudricourt also expects there to be a mult-year deal
So unless there was a last minute disagreement, it’s probably done.
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The deal almost has to be three years, right?
Aoki has no MLB service time, so a deal for less than three years would give the Brewers the ability to simply renew him for the league minimum for the second and/or third years.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Usually when a Japanese player comes over to the US
If the contract is for less than 3 years I think there is some sort of clause in it regarding becoming a FA rather than the team being able to renew the player. That is also true regarding what would normally be the arbritration years of the player’s career.
I'm very excited.
Although- this might signify bad news for Ryan Braun/ maybe bad news for Gamel since you can probably afford to put Hart at first more, now.
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 17, 2012 4:33 PM CST reply actions
Deal is done
2 years + option for third, according to Tom Haudricourt.
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I'm probably buying a jersey shirt.
I’mma tell you right now.
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 17, 2012 4:45 PM CST reply actions
me too haha
I am too drunk to taste this chicken.
by ThroughBeingCool on Jan 17, 2012 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
Interesting tweet by Haudricourt
Melvin on Aoki: “There weren’t any promises about playing time.”
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Aoki in RF, Hart at 1B
boom
I am too drunk to taste this chicken.
by ThroughBeingCool on Jan 17, 2012 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
Gamel in Seattle.
Boom.
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 17, 2012 7:19 PM CST up reply actions
Starring Tom Hanks as Mat Gamel.
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 17, 2012 7:22 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
I regret that I have but one rec to give.
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by Yar Nivek on Jan 18, 2012 12:25 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
yes
I am too drunk to taste this chicken.
by ThroughBeingCool on Jan 17, 2012 8:55 PM CST up reply actions
No.
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 17, 2012 9:02 PM CST up reply actions
Norichika is a badass.
Wants to play in the MLB, so he’s just going to force playing time!
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
Seriously, I think it’s cool that he is willing to put in the work and confident enough that he’s taking a playing time and (possible) salary cut in order to play here.
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 17, 2012 5:17 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Do we know what he would have made in Japan?
That’s something I occasionally wonder about.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
According to
this link he made 330million yen last year which is about $4.3million at today’s exchange rate rather than the $4million it was then.
So he most likely is taking a pay cut, then.
Although he probably stands to make that money back after this contract, when he’s either a US free agent or a Japanese player returning from the US.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Needs a nickname... Suggestions?
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 17, 2012 4:52 PM CST reply actions
Sea Weed, Sea Bass, maybe Gomez can be Sea Horse?
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 17, 2012 6:02 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Only when Sea Plush isn't in the lineup.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
by Kyle Lobner on Jan 17, 2012 6:04 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Tony Poseidon
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 17, 2012 6:08 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I think Tony Neptune sounds better.
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I narrowly resisted the urge to make a Uranus joke that might've forced me to ban myself.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
by Kyle Lobner on Jan 17, 2012 6:27 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
If you announce that you didn't make a Uranus joke while using the word Uranus, you've effectively just made a Uranus joke.
Banned.
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 17, 2012 7:21 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
You banning me would be a weird twist of fate.
I see you’ve been off making friends elsewhere again.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
I got caught up in a blanket warning over at the (football) Giants site, if that's what you mean.
The ban from the Cardinals site is nearly a year old now. Is there something else I’m forgetting?
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 17, 2012 11:30 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, that went something like this....
You’re banned.
What for?
Oh, good point. You’re unbanned.
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 18, 2012 7:26 AM CST up reply actions
This is a subtly effective way of marginalizing a commentor.
I’m not sure whether I should compliment you for it or resent it as undeserved…
I was just trying (and apparently failing) to be funny…
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 18, 2012 7:24 AM CST up reply actions
Sorry, I didn't mean to marginalize you.
I also was trying to be funny.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Sorry.
I missed that…
"fortunate, but also lucky"
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 18, 2012 7:10 PM CST up reply actions
No, he's made all of us make a Uranus joke in our own minds
So he should ban everyone.
by cwolf20 on Jan 18, 2012 3:35 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
The Smell-o-scope
Fry: Oh, man, this is great… hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
Leela: I don’t get it.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: No, no, I, I think I’ll just smell around a bit over here.
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The Brewers almost certainly will call him that.
It fits perfectly into their “single syllable plus a y sound” theme.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Melvin already called him that in the McCalvy article
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
According to BrewerNation
the 3rd year option is a club option.
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
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Brewers
got a good player here. Pretty jealous.
by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Jan 17, 2012 5:14 PM CST reply actions
Why not trade Schafer and Gindl?
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 17, 2012 5:26 PM CST reply actions
That doesn't really make sense, though. You can't have it both ways, you know?
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 18, 2012 8:58 AM CST up reply actions
Yes you can.
His potential is more valuable to us than what we could get in a trade. Because of his injury, another team won’t want to give much up for him.
by tcyoung on Jan 18, 2012 9:45 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Are you factoring in that he has no place to play?
A samurai sword collection. If you can do it. I don’t know if you’re allowed.
by TwoShoesMcGooze on Jan 18, 2012 5:32 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Yes. But it's not like he can't sit in the minors for a year.
I think a trade of Hart, Morgan, or Gomez is more likely. Each of those guys would net more in return than Schafer.
I don’t know. I like Schafer a lot, for some reason, so this might be me rooting moreso than predicting.
So with this signing, the Brewers are pretty much guaranteed to have a payroll over 100M, no?
I assume Aoki will cost the club around 4 million this year (2.5 posting fee, plus 1.5 salary).
I have the payroll around $93M right now w/out Aoki's salary
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
My estimate is at 101.465 right now. Could be a little lower if Marcum goes to his arbitration hearing and loses.
That’s with Cesar Izturis, Taylor Green, and Zach Braddock rounding out the roster. My payroll estimates:
Aoki-4 M
Marcum-7.725
Veras-2.25
by KittenMittons on Jan 17, 2012 5:37 PM CST up reply actions
I'm only counting actual payroll, i.e. the 25-man
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
At least the Brewers don't have to worry about reallocating the press box space set aside for Japanese media
They still have that prepped from Saito’s days as a Brewer.
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I wonder if Saito's interpreter followed him to Arizona, or if he'll stick around and transition to Aoki.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
It's a good question.
My guess is while it’s a good paying job, it’s probably not enough to be constantly moving around. Unless it is someone that has worked with Saito for years, the interpreter is probably club-based instead of player-based.
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Saito's translator the last two seasons was Kosuke Inaji
Update! Via Sponichi News via Yakyu Baka
UPDATE @ 9:39am – Sponichi mentions that the deal could be for around US$1M – 1.5M a year. A separate Sponichi report notes that Nez Balelo may have convinced the Brewers to bid for Aoki by telling them that he was a quality player that would not be expecting a lot of money.
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
I guess he wants to be in the MLB pretty bad.
Good for the Brewers.
by Noah Jarosh on Jan 17, 2012 10:35 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, that's a man with priorities
Money is money, but I have enough of that. I want to test myself against the best now. Plus, I hate that new NPB ball.
Even though it is pretty much what they use in MLB
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."
~RRR
by Charlie Marlow on Jan 18, 2012 12:27 PM CST up reply actions
Does Balelo secretly work for the Brewers?
He got Braun’s team-friendly deal done, then tips them off on Aoki.
Considering his top client is signed here through 2089, he might as well.
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
by SRB on Jan 18, 2012 4:07 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Is that the replacement for the Yuni-209 enforcement droid?
“Mr. Kinney, would you hit some grounders to SS, please?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Noo!! Noo!!! Turn it off!!!”
“I’m sure it’s only a glitch”
If Plush had to pick Wearwolf or Vampire, I'm a Wearwolf!
TH just tweeted the contract details
#Brewers deal with Japanese OF Nori Aoki guarantees salaries of $1 M in 2012 and $1.25 M in 2013, with lots of incentives and option for ’14
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