{"id":5464,"date":"2013-12-06T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2013-12-06T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:35:13","slug":"report-jay-z-ups-asking-price-for-robinson-cano-and-mariners-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/06\/report-jay-z-ups-asking-price-for-robinson-cano-and-mariners-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners bail as Jay Z ups asking price for Robinson Cano"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>Mariners sign Cano to 10-year deal worth $240 million<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous story posted below for archive.<\/em><\/p>\n

It looks like the New York Yankees knew what they were doing with Robinson Cano all along.<\/p>\n

As the only suitors left the Yankees are free to give that $175 million offer to the second baseman.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Mariners quickly appeared as another landing spot this week and just as abruptly left discussions with the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n

Details of what happened in Seattle on Thursday are a classic example of a player and agent overplaying their hand. Here’s the account according to the NY Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Cano and his camp arrived in Seattle with what sources described as basically an eight-year deal for $200 million in hand and the assurances that Seattle would go to nine years and $225 million. But when Jay Z then upped the ante to 10 years for $252 million, Mariners president Howard Lincoln apparently “exploded,” according to one of the sources, and ended the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the money and thoughts of Jay Z and Cano have come falling down. Remember the 10-year $300 million asking price at the start of free agency and the rumored nine-year $260 million requests just weeks ago.<\/p>\n

While Cano may end up pushing his new deal closer to the $200 million threshold it looks like the Yankees hard line stance will end up saving them tens of millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:\u00a0Mariners sign Cano to 10-year deal worth $240 million Previous story posted below for archive. It looks like the New York Yankees knew what they were doing with Robinson Cano all along. As the only suitors left the Yankees are free to give that $175 million offer to the second baseman. The Seattle Mariners quickly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,38,471],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees","11":"tag-robinson-cano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}