MLB: Bay seeking 5-6 years @ 16-18 million per?

1:05pm - Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 by DePaoli

Former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Jason Bay will be one of the top marquee free agents to hit the open market this month.

The Boston Red Sox would love to keep Bay and have made an initial offer of four years worth $60 million.

Bay has an interest in returning to Boston but is believed to be seeking atleast 5-6 years worth $16-$18 million per season.

A number of teams are expected to express interest including the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels and the San Francisco Giants. The St. Louis-Dispatch reports, the Cardinals have also targeted Bay, if outfielder Matt Holliday leaves via free agency.

Talk around the league is that one team prepared to outbid the Red Sox could be the San Francisco Giants.

The Mets, Cardinals, Braves and Blue Jays expressed significant interest in Bay during his time with the Pirates.

Bay, 31, is a three-time All-Star with four 100-RBI seasons on his resume.

Comments

Cory7321

Good to see Jay Bay cashing in.

11/10/2009 1:14pm

zizou1790

wow thats a little much

11/10/2009 1:23pm

mwiles19

Not much else on the market this year in terms of reliable offense so Bay and Holliday are going to cash in big time.

11/10/2009 1:27pm

Vargo

Baseball is a joke.

11/10/2009 1:30pm

j_s15226

In this economy and the Yanks seemingly not interested I'd be surprised if he gets that much

11/10/2009 1:35pm

Monrovian12

No baseball player should make more than 10 million a year...Even that's high.

11/10/2009 1:36pm

Nxt_1_Cometh

agreed vargo

11/10/2009 1:37pm

mwalluk

Same concept, different sport. No college kid getting drafted 1st overall should make 100 million without playing a snap in the nfl

11/10/2009 1:41pm

j_s15226

PG is reporting the Bucs offered Capps in a trade for JJ Hardy

11/10/2009 1:58pm

Lets Go Blue Jays!!!!

11/10/2009 3:23pm

Sports70

thank god the brewers declined that trade...it would hae been stupid

11/10/2009 3:25pm

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j_s15226

Yeah who needs a power hitting SS anyway? Matt Crapps is the most overated RP we have. NH has seemingly already placed a premium of position players over RP.

11/10/2009 3:48pm

orsulak

Sox will probably end up giving JBay a 5 year deal. I have a feeling that he is going to break down soon though, but they can afford to pay him and get 2 or 3 good years of production. In any event, he will make approx 50% of the Bucs entire payroll next year. Very depressing

11/10/2009 4:14pm

j_s15226

For the bucs case I hope 15 million isn't half of the final payroll

11/10/2009 4:26pm

stengel

I can't wait for the buccos to get rid of Capps...the guy chokes more often than not...he can't seem to find the plate after a HR...he's a BUST...move on...send him to the Cards and let them deal with his issues...the dude has issues...nightmares of 8 foot batter and he's throwing beach balls!

11/11/2009 1:17pm