Wednesday, December 21, 2011
NY Post: Rangers win Darvish bid at $51.7M
Several teams are kicking the tires on acquiring A.J. Burnett, but it’s going to take the Yankees swallowing more than $8 million of the $33 million remaining on Burnett’s final two years. And Burnett can submit 10 teams every year to which he wouldn’t accept a trade.
Burnett’s got $33M left on his contract. CAIRO thinks he’ll be worth maybe 2-3 WAR over that time. So in theory he’s worth about $10-15M. So the Yankees would probably have to swallow closer to $18-20M to be rid of him. I don’t think they’ll do that.
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