00:00have major breaking news right now here on karshen anderson on 97.1 according to bob nightingale
00:05of usa today the detroit tigers rookie kevin mcgonigal becomes the latest young player to
00:12sign an extension eight years 150 million dollars yes that's awesome so he gets nearly 20 million a
00:31year whatever it is 18 18.75 that's awesome great for him they believe in him that he's got this
00:39bright bright future ahead eight years so they bought two years of free agency
00:46i would have loved the third year free agency at that price maybe this is what
00:49the negotiating point was you wanted the nine years yeah i wanted the nine years
00:56getting greedy now of course i mean dude in two years i think we're going to look at this and
01:01go
01:01wow that's a steal i hope we are kid's got so much talent he's off to a great start stay
01:08healthy
01:09keep doing what you're doing i think this is wise of the tigers to do it this is another feather
01:16in
01:16the cap for scott harris to get this done now will we be right writing this there's a there's potential
01:21we could regret this if he ends up being nothing but it doesn't look like he's nothing no no so
01:26the
01:26reason of course i want the nine the nine years because that's what connor griffin got and he got
01:31nine years 140 the tigers more money and more annually at one less year i you know this is
01:42this is a mcgonigal friendly extension compared to a connor griffin got but i'm not mad about it
01:50like i'm not going to do the oh it should be better it this is positive news this is great
01:55yes do i do i
01:57have a little bit of why couldn't they get that ninth year yeah i have a little bit of that
02:02but
02:02as you pointed out there's no guarantees these are these are risks taken by both sides it feels in
02:09this moment like a win-win nobody every last one of us would say you're going to give me 150
02:15million
02:16dollars over the next eight years we'd all say yes especially if you were making 785 000 which
02:22probably exceeds by far the mean income around metro detroit so here he is i wonder what the
02:28signing bonus is on this i don't know if there is a signing i don't know but you know kevin
02:33mcgonigal
02:34now has gotten paid he just seems to be answering every question that every test that he gets
02:44that just happened yep so everybody is okay with this right this is there's some risk of course
02:50because you know but it's the savings the reward could be huge yeah and it's it's also
02:55it's a it's a definite investment um into the future of this team and you may be locking down
03:03what could be the best player in this team in a couple years uh for long term where at the
03:10end of
03:11the contract he's 29 okay yes and apparently there's no options so he can't even opt out
03:20well with that you'd have to i feel like you'd have to buy that contract yeah you're you're not
03:26going to get that this isn't like a free agent contract um but i i love this i absolutely love
03:31this i think it shows a commitment from the tigers uh commitment from chris illich that he's he's let's
03:39go these are moves we can make what we can do and it's a it's a wise move and i'll
03:45be curious to see
03:46how it is structured i imagine for the next few years it's it's it's far less than the 18.75
03:51that
03:51they're gonna have to pay what do you mean well because this is just the annual you're talking
03:55it's it's an eight year 150 million dollar deal oh you mean what's the breakdown yeah oh they see
04:00the breakdown year to year um so at the end of the contract are they paying them 25 million dollars
04:04a
04:04season 30 million dollars a season i don't know what it is you know but i don't really care at
04:09this
04:10point they've got they've got a guy locked up long term who looks like a stud they have him locked
04:15up
04:15before they have riley green locked up this is interesting because i i get the feeling they're
04:20not so sure they need to lock up riley green or spencer torkelson to carry carpenter i don't know
04:25that i would if you look at what they did the tigers who did the same thing with colt keith
04:31now
04:32what was his deal how many years though six years 28.642
04:42his annual salary has gone from 2.83 to 3.83 to 4.33 that's what he's getting this year
04:52and next
04:53year 5.33 this looks like more than 28.2 is it yeah 5.33 then there's club options on
05:02the back end if
05:03they want to they can go beyond that there's club options for the final three years for 10 13 and
05:0915
05:09million so if he gets to make it a nine-year deal yes if he gets to free agency and
05:14they want to keep
05:14them they can at a very reasonable at a very reasonable price like this is now there's other
05:20facets of this that we'll get to but there is breaking news here in detroit tiger fans look
05:24whenever stuff like this happens you always wonder if they're going to rue the day will they be
05:31rueing or is his has this kid already after three weeks of major league baseball does he just reek
05:39of credibility and that there's not anybody doubting this deal 248-539-9797 if you have any questions
05:49about why they did it if you wouldn't have done it are you thrilled is this a check plus for
05:56scott harris
05:56it's karshan anderson what's your reaction kevin mcgonigal eight-year 150 million dollar contract
06:03with the tigers they bought two years of free agency at roughly 18.75 we'll have to see year by
06:09year
06:09how it's laid out
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