The Pirates and catcher Ryan Doumit have agreed to terms on a three-year contract extension -- plus an unusual club option for an additional two years -- and are expected to announce it with a news conference today at PNC Park.
All that remains is for Doumit to take a physical, and that is scheduled for this morning.
No financial terms were immediately available, but the guaranteed three-year term will carry Doumit through all three of his arbitration-eligible years, and the club option could buy out what would have been his first and second years of free agency. The rarity of the option is that it has a one-time trigger for both years, meaning that the Pirates can decide only once whether or not to exercise both.
The contract effectively gives the Pirates control of Doumit's rights through 2013.
Doumit, 27, made $412,000 during a breakout 2008 in which he batted .318 with 15 home runs and 69 RBIs. His .407 average with runners in scoring position was the best in the National League for players with a minimum 100 plate appearances.
The signing will be the first for the Pirates of their seven arbitration-eligible players. Starter Paul Maholm also is negotiating an extension with the team. Center fielder Nate McLouth had been doing likewise until those talks crumbled in the past week. The rest are first baseman Adam LaRoche, starter Zach Duke, and relievers John Grabow and Tyler Yates. All except Maholm can be expected, for now, to end up with one-year contracts.
The Doumit extension would be the fourth since new management took over in late 2007: Second baseman Freddy Sanchez, starter Ian Snell and closer Matt Capps received multiyear contracts early this year.
더밋이 3년 + 2년옵션의 연장계약을 채결했고, 현지시간으로 오늘 PNC팍에서 발표를 한다고 하네요.
신체검사는 아침에 한다고 합니다.
특이하게 2년 옵션을 달았군요.
옵션까지 시행된다면 2013년까지 벅스는 더밋을 컨트롤할 수 있다고 합니다.
경제여파때문에 얼마만큼의 계약을 해줄지는 모르겠지만, 4년에 20M이나 5년에 30M의 가치가 될거라고 예상은 나온 상태입니다.
그와 더불어 폴 마홈과 네이트 맥로스의 연장계약도 진행되고 있는 상황입니다만, 맥로스의 경우는 양측의 금액차이가 좀 난다고 합니다.
