Torrealba back, 2 years, at about $7.75 million total.
I'm o.k. with that. Struck me as a bit of an overpay, but since it's less than Jason Kendall got (!) I guess I'm wrong. The problem here isn't that this is a horrible contract; it isn't. The problem is that Iannetta is a good in-house/cheap solution, and we don't have one of those for some of the other holes we need to fill -- 2B in particular. But still, this is far from a crippling contract and Yorvit's a nice guy to have around.
Matt Herges, 1 year, approx. $2.5 million.
O.K., now we're in HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FRICKIN' MIND, DAN territory. After Herges' nice run last year, I was thinking that it wouldn't be so bad to offer this classic NRI-type guy a Tom Martin type deal. 1 year, $800,000, club option with $200,000 buyout, something like that. You're still committing at least a million bucks to a guy who could very well resemble the Tom Martin of 2007, but hey, no free agent (not even a 37-year old who was almost out of baseball entirely last spring) comes cheap anymore.
But $2.5 million? I mean, I don't even think the Bob Wickmans of the world -- guys who were actually pretty decent at one point not so long ago -- will get that much this winter.
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