According to a baseball source, the Red Sox and second baseman Dustin Pedroia have agreed to a seven-year, worth approximately $100 million extension that will begin following the final guaranteed year of his current deal. Pedroia is currently in the midst of six-year, $40.5 million deal that carries a team option for 2015.The new contract - which will average roughly $14.3/season - runs through 2021, at which time Pedroia will be 38 years old.
The deal, according to the source, carries a full no-trade clause.
Read Pedroia's comments on the deal here.
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Well-deserved... Pedey is the heart and soul of this team.
How soon do they name him captain? :-)
[Will teammates look at you differently?]
Not really. They still have to look down at me. I’m pretty short.
Awesome.
Since this contract takes hold after the team option from the first contract, what would happen in a hypothetical scenario where the option was voided creating a one year gap between contracts?
As I understand it, the new contract would begin after the last guaranteed year of the current contract, which is 2014. The team option for 2015 would go poof - and the new contract would start in 2015.
My son picked out his shirt this year at Fenway. Nice to know he has a player to associate with the Red Sox for awhile.
Great player for little leaguers to look up to.
And he could have easily waited for Cano to sign for 20 mil per year. And looked for similar money.
I think he sold himself short.
Probably. But it's still pretty good money.
I had been thinking 6/100 would be a good deal for the Sox. This is better -- but it is a lot of years. He could have gotten somewhat more, perhaps, but it's still pretty solid. He's Jeteresque in terms of his value -- there's not any shame in failing to be ridiculously overpaid.
Latest is calling it 8/110 since it includes his $10m option year.
Pedroia: "I'm not here to set markets. I'm here to win more games than the other second basemen."
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