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Blue Jays Sign Alex Rios, Aaron Hill
Surprise move by the Jays today - they inked second baseman Aaron Hill to a four-year, $12MM deal with club options for three years after that. The deal begins with the '08 season and then covers his three arb years. Orlando Hudson, a decent comparable, got about $12.8MM for a similar slice of his career. Sounds fair, and the options are a nice bonus for the Jays.
The Jays also completed Alex Rios' six-year, $64MM deal. This is another fine contract for Toronto, as they get four of Rios' free agent years at a below-market price. The Jays have a seventh year option for Rios at $13.5MM, with a $1MM buyout attached. The contract includes a complete no-trade clause for the first two years and a partial thereafter.
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i can't believe hill was locked up for such a bargain. i look forward to watching the jays pushing the yanks and sox off the top of the al east in a few years.
Posted by: John Difford | April 04, 2008 at 02:46 PM
Woo hoo
Snider/Wells/Rios for a long long time.
Posted by: juiced | April 04, 2008 at 02:53 PM
Wow, from Hill's comments this week I expected it to wait until the end of the season. Bravo.
Posted by: Mr. JavaScript | April 04, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Wow. Hill kind of got raped on this deal.
Posted by: green_and_gold | April 04, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Hill's agent must be Tim Wakefield.
"Woo hoo
Snider/Wells/Rios for a long long time."
Lind/Wells/Rios. Snider at DH. Add Hill, Overbay, and McGowan and this team is looking up.
Posted by: andagh | April 04, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Tim:
This deal replaces Hill's 2008 salary, meaning the 4 year/12 mil part does not cover any free agent years. Hill was not arbitration eligible in 2008.
The options are the only contracts that cover free agent years.
Posted by: Grant77 | April 04, 2008 at 03:07 PM
I will bet if LInd has a good year in AAA he'll be gone at the deadline.
Posted by: juiced | April 04, 2008 at 03:08 PM
One other thing to note is that the options are not 3 separate years.
After the 2011 season, the Jays will have to choose to pick up 1, 2 or 3 years of his option.
Posted by: Grant77 | April 04, 2008 at 03:10 PM
Thanks for the correction Grant.
Posted by: Tim Dierkes | April 04, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Always glad to help :)
Posted by: Grant77 | April 04, 2008 at 03:59 PM
... Wow, nice. I knew the Rios deal was going to be announced today, but I never thought that Hill was going to sign this year. Whoa.
Posted by: Lindsay | April 04, 2008 at 05:11 PM
Despite how glad I am about this signing, ESPN says the contract was different.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3329890
it says that Rios signed for 7 years, 69.8 million.
Can someone clear this up for me?
Posted by: cyberzero_jays | April 06, 2008 at 11:59 AM