New Weiters Article - No Closer

[baltfan]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-wieters815,0,3440160.story

Article says closing in on Arrieta. Neither Weiters nor O's have moved as of this afternoon.

[Hank Scorpio]

Neither side is optimistic.

Ah well.

[JTrea81]

Just pay up MacPhail! 8 million should get it done.

This is the exact same article that came out before Loewen and likewise Jered Weaver signed BTW...

[Lucky Jim]

Just pay up MacPhail! 8 million should get it done.

Again, this isn't unilateral. According to Callis Boras hasn't budged from $10mil+.

I still think they settle at $7-7.5mil.

[square634]

I still think this is mostly posturing by both sides.

[rolliefingers]

//At least one other Boras client has signed today. The New York Yankees' first-round pick, Andrew Brackman, has agreed to a $4.6 million signing bonus and a contract that could be worth as much as $13.8 million over the next seven years, a baseball source said.//

Incentives, people. Incentives.

Get it done!

[Jimmy Mad]

Callis just said in his chat at 2 p.m. that he didn't think it would get done.

[SaltDoggyDog]

Buster Olney was on MASN and said the O's are trying to get him to agree on "the bonus slotted for the O's 5th pick" and the O's are padding the salary they are going to offer to Wieters to make up for the difference in his request. It seems that they are trying to work something out. Looks like he might get something both sides can find value in.

[Mackus]

//At least one other Boras client has signed today. The New York Yankees' first-round pick, Andrew Brackman, has agreed to a $4.6 million signing bonus and a contract that could be worth as much as $13.8 million over the next seven years, a baseball source said.//

Incentives, people. Incentives.

Get it done!

Wieters is worth much more than Brackman, so a bonus in the $4.5M range is out (unless they give a smaller bonus but more backloaded guaranteed money as Buster Olney suggested).

Something like $8-10M guaranteed should defintiely get it done, and give incentives to get it up to $15M or so.

[Rockbird]

I hope they leave time for the physical...

[rolliefingers]

Wieters is worth much more than Brackman, so a bonus in the $4.5M range is out (unless they give a smaller bonus but more backloaded guaranteed money as Buster Olney suggested).

Something like $8-10M guaranteed should defintiely get it done, and give incentives to get it up to $15M or so.

Right, I was just saying that incentives are a good way to close the gap between two sides.

[AgentOrange]

I hope they leave time for the physical...

Can they not do the physical before they agree?

[Elon Os Fan]

They will get it done. It will probably come down to who jumps first.

9.5 Million !!!! Angelos will jump

[Birds of B'more]

I hope they leave time for the physical...

If it comes down to the deadline, all I need to see is if the kid has a pulse.

[Rockbird]

Can they not do the physical before they agree?

Why would Boras/Weiter ever agree to do this? It keeps the pressure on the FO and leverage on their side. Plus I doubt they'd want to go through the inconvenience if he's ultimately not going to sign. Best case scenario is someone suggested is they had all of this done a long time ago and the papers are just needing to be signed off on, but I have my doubts with the way slow poke Angelos operates.