Furcal Signs with Braves

by Tom Dakers on Dec 16, 2008 3:50 PM EST in Toronto Blue Jays News

Rafael Furcal has signed with the Braves for 3 years with a vesting option for a fourth year. So that little fantasy is over. To be honest....though there isn't a mention of the amount of money, I'm not sure I'd want to be paying him all the much for that long. But making the last season a vesting option was a good move by the Braves.

With Furcal off the market there isn't a SS left that I would want the Jays to sign. So maybe we could get a DH type instead?

Update: apparently it isn't a done deal after all. The Dodgers are back in the chase. What Atlanta offered was 3 years for $30 million and a vest option for a fourth year if he played 132 games in the third year. It doesn't seem like that bad a deal, I wonder why the Jays dropped out, they must have known it would be about $10 million a year.

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this means we get Cabrera after all? All the teams looking for a SS seem to have found one. I don’t see Oakland or KC, the other finalists for Furcal, getting in on O-Cab (not that we have been interested either) so do we get the Eckstein deal due to lack of demand? And do we want it?

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by hugo on Dec 16, 2008 4:08 PM EST reply actions