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Get used to seeing this smile! The #STLCards have signed @Tsunamy27 to a five-year contract that also includes club options for 2022 & 2023. pic.twitter.com/pQPm4oZ7pj
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) February 2, 2017
Usssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
And the details:
- Five years
- $51 million,
- $4.5 million for 2017
- $11.5 million for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Option one (2022): $17 million
- Option two (2023): $18 million
- Total possible value of deal: seven years, $86 million
- The chance to see this for the next seven years?
Priceless.
Feel free to woo with reckless abandon.
Carlos Martinez, Cardinals agree to extension | MLB.com
Carlos Martinez, at home on and off the field in St. Louis | St. Louis Cardinals | stltoday.com
Carlos Martinez agrees to 5-year, $51 million deal with the Cardinals | Cardinal Beat | stltoday.com
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