I woke up this morning that the Blue Jays decided to agree to a 5 year and 65 mil and now I'm also hearing that their is an option. Now what I would have hoped for is the Blue Jays to wait until June/July to see if he has anything close to 10-15 homers by the end of June which is a stretch for Batista because after 54 homers last season comes a huge drop off to 16 homers back in 2006. He is going to get just over 500% (wouldn't the average person like that kind of a pay increase) as he is now averaging 13 mil a season and Jose Batista needs to get 25-30 homers a season over the next 5 seasons and lets hope when his numbers go down that he plays hard like running out at bats and fielding his position unlike Vernon Wells or Alex Rios did. The contract is a bit better than either Wells (7 seasons and 126 Mil) and Rios (6 seasons and 84 mil) and lets hope Batista is still has a good eye at the plate and continue to take free bases and if he gets hits even if it is not a dinger it still good because runners on base make it easier to get runners in. Batista is only 30 years of age and hopefully his career is closer to the 54 homer season than the 16 homer season and lets hope that last season was not an one hit wounder but it will take time to find out if this is a good or bad contract.
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Tom Mehegan
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