How about Joe Mauer’s contract extension? The eight-year, $184 million deal will ensure that Twins fans will see their hometown hero play half his games at Target Field through at least 2018, when Mauer will turn 35. The contract is the richest in major league history for a catcher, but will be a bargain if Mauer keeps winning batting titles like he has the last two years (and three of the last four) and continues to be the five-tool star all General Managers would love to build a team around. Gold Glove-winning catchers who can hit for both average and power don’t grow on trees.
John Schuerholz
26 March 2010
ng as an assistant to Cubs GM Jim Hendry, and the latter as a special assistant to Braves President John Schuerholz.
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26 July 2008
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Plenty of teams would love to have the switch-hitting Teixeira, but Atlanta's John Schuerholz is shrewd in his deal-making, so they're not going to move him just to move him. IF there's no good deals out there, he won't take it. But as the deadline approaches, the pressure increases for other teams to make a deal, and Schuerholz is happy to bide his time and let the offers roll in.
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