{"id":688,"date":"2012-12-04T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:32:03","slug":"marco-scutaro-bidding-war-reaches-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/04\/marco-scutaro-bidding-war-reaches-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Scutaro bidding war reaches insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE:<\/strong> Scutaro has re-signed with the Giants for three years and $20 million.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marco Scutaro had a great post season in 2012, winning the NLCS MVP and helping the San Francisco Giants win the World Series. A free agent this off-season the 37-year-ol infielder has multiple suitors who appear willing to over pay.<\/p>\n

The latest report<\/a> about Scutaro comes from Buster Onley who says that the bidding on the infielder has reached three years and $24 million. San Francisco still appears to be the favorites to re-sign him.<\/p>\n

That is not to say that the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees are not bidding up the price.<\/p>\n

In Scutaro’s most productive seasons of his career he barely appears to be the type of player who is worth $8 million a season. Over the last four seasons Scutaro has a .290\/.354\/.404 line with 37 home runs, 338 runs scored and 244 RBI.<\/p>\n

Good numbers but it must also be considered that a those numbers came while Scutaro was 33, 34, 35 and 36. If the three length on a contract is correct his next deal will cover his age 37, 38 and 39 seasons. Its a common occurrence in the post steroid era of baseball, age will bring those numbers down.<\/p>\n

While his defensive versatility will make Scutaro useful for any team his overall defensive numbers are nothing more then league average stats compiled by a nice guy.<\/p>\n

I can not blame Scutaro for cashing in on his post season numbers I just do not understand how he is worth so much for so long going forward.<\/p>\n

Scutaro made $17 million over the past three seasons, its hard to believe he will be as productive in the next three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Scutaro has re-signed with the Giants for three years and $20 million. Marco Scutaro had a great post season in 2012, winning the NLCS MVP and helping the San Francisco Giants win the World Series. A free agent this off-season the 37-year-ol infielder has multiple suitors who appear willing to over pay. The latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[120],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-marco-scutaro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}