Manny rejects one-year deal from Dodgers
LOS ANGELES (TICKER) —The Los Angeles Dodgers did not have to wait long for a response from Manny Ramirez and Scott Boras on their latest contract offer.
Hours after Yahoo! Sports reported that the Dodgers on Monday offered Ramirez a one-year, $25 million deal, club spokesman Josh Rawitch confirmed that the slugger had rejected the contract.
“Just a quick confirmation that Scott Boras and (general manager) Ned (Colletti) spoke tonight and that Scott rejected the Dodgers’ offer,” Rawitch wrote in an e-mail to the team’s beat writers that was posted on the Los Angeles Times’ web site.
The latest offer chopped one year and $20 million off the deal Los Angeles put on the table at the November general managers meetings.
That two-year deal was rejected by Ramirez and his agent, Boras, and pulled off the table sometime after the winter meetings in December.
The new offer would have made Ramirez the second-highest paid player in the game - after New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez - in terms of average annual salary. But it is no where near the four-year, $100 million contract that Boras was thought to be seeking when he and Ramirez leveraged a trade to the Dodgers from Boston at the July 31 deadline.
Ramirez batted .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBI in 53 games for Los Angeles and hit .520 and hit four more home runs in the playoffs.
