The Braves and Brian McCann have agreed to a six-year contract that includes a team option for a seventh season.
This guy has 622 major league at-bats, and he's guaranteed $30 million bucks! The interesting thing is that he may not stick behind the plate: not only is his defense a little questionable, but uber-prospect Jarrod Saltalamacchia coming up behind him, so McCann's future may be elsewhere on the diamond.
The deal has the potential to buy out two of McCann's free-agent seasons and is reportedly worth up to $29.8 million. McCann will be arbitration-eligible for the first time in 2009.
Or, of course, McCann's future could be elsewhere in the league, in which case the Braves have signed him to what could be a very, very attractive contract. These sorts of things are always worth keeping an eye on, because Doug Melvin has a lot of big decisions coming up with our young core, and the longer he waits to lock them up, the more expensive they get.