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Romero 25 years of age, and 10-7 on the season signed a comforting 5 year, 30.1 million dollar contract extension, including a sixth year club option. The move is a mixed emotion. It is not surprising the Jays showed initiative in resigning their rotation's second man, as he is having quite the year, regularly providing the team chances to win against every team in the Majors, and striking out 137 hitters this year.
Yet sadly on the other hand, when asked to comment on the teams resigning of Ricky, manager Cito Gaston stated "We almost sent him out last year". Coupled with the choice this year, shows Ricky although quite inexperienced, shows quite some promise, and at a young age could be a force to reckon in the Jays rotation until 2015, granted he keeps up his apparent work ethic. Obviously, I'm a big fan!
In other recent news, Cincinnati's acquisition of Jim Edmonds shows they are looking to contend for that wild card spot and perhaps the division lead. The San Francisco Giant's ace Tim Lincecum was battered today as the Padres took the series and spread their lead to 3.5 games, the Giants still hold the NL Wildcard Lead but desperately need to pick it up or they may find them self free from October baseball. (The Giants are 5-5 in their last 10 games, where as the Padres are 7-3)
On a final note, my favorite Major League hitter, and vote as most likely to hit 700 homers, Albert Pujols hit his 30th bomb today, and for extends his streak to ten years CONSECUTIVELY with 30 or more homeruns! What makes Pujols a better player than A-Rod, is his .300 batting average, his on-pace 40 homeruns, and 100 RBI's, which are all higher than Alex's except the RBI's which are arguable, but when you are on a New York Yankees squad, batting 4th, you had better rack in a 100 runs a year, for the sake that you have 100 million dollars in bats ahead of you in the lineup... Did I mention that Pujols is steroid-link free? Deal. If Big Al could continue to hit 30 for the next 6 years, until he is 35, A-Rods age, he would hit number 600 roughly 60 games later than Alex did. That is taking for granted Pujols ONLY hits 30 a year... He appears to be a tad more consistent than Alex, but I've touched on that before!
That's pretty much it, the big thing on my mind today was Romero, the Jays really need to string together some wins here down the stretch and his contract will help for the next few years! Check back in a few days for another post!
Trivia Question! Did you know Alex Rodriguez' middle name is emmanual?
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