While the baseball world was occupied following the whereabouts of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and John Lackey, the St. Louis Cardinals were busy trying strike a deal with free agent outfielder Matt Holliday.
Cardinals Reportedly Offer Matt Holliday ‘Most Lucrative Deal’ In Team History
According to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Cards stepped up their negotiating on Monday and “tweaked” their original offer to Holliday, hoping to retain him for a reported eight seasons.
General manager John Mozeliak and agent Scott Boras revisited the framework of the Cardinals’ lengthy proposal first tendered last Wednesday. Though both parties refuse to discuss details, the deal is worth around $16 million a season, making it easily the most lucrative deal ever offered by the Cardinals. [...]
“He’s still a player we like very much and hope to retain,” Mozeliak said.
St. Louis has apparently become “increasingly impatient” as they try to strike a deal, so, hoping to come to terms before Christmas, and in an effort to appease Holliday’s agent, Scott Boras (he’s expressed “displeasure” with the average annual salary), the Cardinals added guaranteed money with additional years. The proposed deal would eclipse the seven-year, $100 million extension Albert Pujols signed in 2003.
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