The Big Unit…a Giant.

RJ and the Giants just came to terms on a one year, $8M deal.  An additional $5M are available in performance bonuses.

It seemed that it was a competition between the two Bay teams for Randy's services with the Giants ultimately outbidding the A's.  Seems to me that how reasonable this contract is (and, connected to that, how outraged D-Backs fans should be) is based on the performance bonuses.  If the bonuses are easily reachable (say, 150 IP), then this looks like a deal that we had no business trying to compete with. 

 

On the other hand, if the bonuses are rather unreachable (and the contract is basically just $8M straight up), then I wished we would have upped the ante on our offer.  $8M seems pretty reasonable to me.

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