Yankees Sign Chien-Ming Wang

We should sign him long term to a cheap deal while we have the injury-leverage to pay less than he deserves....

Ummm...... Alright then...

it means that he accept the arbitration now rather than 2009, so he a yankee until 2011, and then we can resign him for a long term deal.

What hamstring injury??? He hurt his foot running the bases.

Nice, now he'll be with them while his Playoff ERA gets higher. It's already riduclously high.

Foot injury... my bad =/

"No, it just means they are going to pay him $5million next year. For the 2010 season they'll either have to do a another one-year contract, a longer deal, go to arbitration, or not offer him a contract."

i aint understand what you just say not even the "."

i like that they signed him but i don't get the arbitration thing

"i aint understand what you just say not even the "."

Why are you advertising the fact that you're a dumbass?

This is hardly news. The only question was whether Wang and the Yanks were going to hook up for a longer deal - buying out his remaining arb years or possibly even a year or two of FA.

Having a deal in place does not preclude that from happening. It's in both parties best interest to hammer something out.

"i like that they signed him but i don't get the arbitration thing"

When a guy enters the big leagues, the team he is on owns his rights for 6 years. The first 3 years he is paid near the league minimum, somewhere around half a million. During those first 3 years, the team can renew the contract for a few hundred grand or you can lock up your player (Longoria, Cain, Reyes, Wright, etc.). After the 3rd year, for the next 3 years, although the team still owns the rights of the player, a player can go to arbitration, where it will be decided what he is worth that year. A player can make a lot of money in his controlled arbitration years, but the team still owns him, and it gives them a chance to figure out whether they want to try to trade a guy, lock him up, or just let his 6 years service time run out and let him walk to unrestricted free agency. It gives the chance for good young players to make good money after a couple of seasons, while still having his rights owned by whatever team he is on.

"Can't argue with having a two-time 19 game winner as a #3 guy".

ABSOLUTELY! He goes from the Yankees #1 to one of the top three best #3's in all of MLB.

"WHY are you on the Yankees thread every single day doing nothing but hurling insults and making and utter and complete AZZ out of yourself? Are you really THAT bored little boy? WOW you are sad"

Facts are facts buddy. Don't be so sensitive.

yanks got hit with the highest Luxury Tax. I know this has nothing to do with this post but the other threads have a lot of posts on them lol http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3788527

One more thing why do people like jjyankeesfan2 come on here and say stuff like they did... he was just saying what he thought was right..which it was and then jjyankeesfan2 just goes off..like if your going to act like a 3 year old... go to a different site

"How do you figure? He lost an arbitration case last year, 4.6 mil vs 4 mil. So if he lost last year then what did he do this year that would've warranted a more signifigant increase of 1 mil? What I mean was that they could've haggled over a few dollars but the Yanks figured why go thru another battle w/ a guy you probably would want to extend soon anyway?"

A combination of factors would lead to that. First, there is no way that he would have seen a cut in pay, and the Yankees would have likely not even tried to post a pay cut as their number to the arbitrator. After that, you have to realize that longer service time means more money from the arbitrator. If you have any value at all, which Wang certainly does, no arbitrator is going to make it a token raise. Actually, Dontrelle Willis' 2007 contract would be a pretty good guide to look at, and the D-Train earned over $6 million that year.
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AA: It's a ver minute point, and Wang is ertainly worth $5 mil and much, much more. But in 06 and 07 Dontrelle's case never went before an arbitrator as he and the team settled prior to the case being heard. Plus he was coming off of two good seasons (22-10 and 12-12). So if Wang lost an arbitration case in 07 4.6 mil vs 4 mil) then I'm not sure the arbitrator would've offered him much more than a $1 mil increase. I don't think the Yanks would've asked for a pay cut, especially considering that Wang injured himself vs being ineffective. I would also think they wouldn't want to piss Wang off nickling and diming him again 1 month after offering 240+ mil to AJ and CC.If anything I would think the Yanks are interested in extending him and buying out the next few years of arb and free agency.

I would offer him 5/40 mil. Thet would lock him up until the end of 2013 (age 34). $8 mil a year is reasonable and as long as he doesn't completely fall apart that would be a steal.

"It's a ver minute point, and Wang is ertainly worth $5 mil and much, much more. But in 06 and 07 Dontrelle's case never went before an arbitrator as he and the team settled prior to the case being heard. Plus he was coming off of two good seasons (22-10 and 12-12). So if Wang lost an arbitration case in 07 4.6 mil vs 4 mil) then I'm not sure the arbitrator would've offered him much more than a $1 mil increase."

There is nothing minute about the point. The precedent is for arbitrators to give raises of about $2 million per year of arbitration for players who have a good track record, which Wang has. He would have easily gotten more than $5 million in arbitration. The Yankees stole this one.