I really don’t have a problem with any of these options. If they want to pay him more to just have him for one year and it doesn’t affect their budget, I don’t mind that. A two year extension at about 6 million per would be the best, but three years would be excessive, considering his health after the Giants’ acquired him. Cutting him loose would not be the end of the world, but if they do this I don’t want to see Frandsen or Burriss at second base next year.

can we decline the option and offer him arbitration? would he consider accepting? what kind of money would he make in arbitration?

I think with a healthy year he could put up a nice batting average close to .300 and is certainly a better option for the #2 spot in the lineup than anyone else on our team

and spend those monies on trying to sign a Brad Penny type pitcher

1. bring back F. Sanchez
2. sign Bobby Abreu for RF
3. sign Nick Johnson for 1B
4. sign a pitcher like Jon Garland or Carl Pavano to be 5th starter
5. bring back Uribe
6. sign a cheap veteran catcher as stopgap for Posey or just use Whiteside

you figure $6MM per for Freddy, 9MM per for Abreu, 5MM per for Johnson, about 6MM per for Garland or Pavano, 4MM for Uribe and 1 2MM for vet catcher

then about 10MM arb for Timmy, 4MM arb for Wilson, 2MM arb for J. Sanchez

thats about 46 mil add to 51 mil of current payroll you got a 97 mil payroll which is 15 mil higher than last year’s

it sounds like a lot but if Neukom isn’t lying to us about being able to add payroll then it can be done

Your salary figures are all messed up, but how on earth do you figure Garland or Pavano getting 6 mm per year on any deal?

I didn’t mind Franchez. When he was healthy he worked nice, but then again he wasn’t healthy for long.

Obviously you don’t go with his $8 mill option, instead I’d sign him to a 2 year, $5M per contract with incentives, namely staying healthy.

I say drop him.

His cost is greater than his worth. Use the money elsewhere. If you are going to be cheapskates then do it wisely.

Oh to dream.

I’d try and sign him to a year year extension for around $5M per year. He should be comfortably worth the money and i don’t think any of the 2B on the market will sign for less than that (and probably quite a bit more in some cases)

Lock him in a room with carnivorous turtles.

I like the latter two options just fine.

I’m not going to take the time to respond to this or vote in your poll because you didn’t take the time to bother either.

As culled from Cots. Please feel free to double check me for I do make errors from time to time.

Kazuo Matsui, Hou $5.5MM for 2010 in the final year of a 3 year contract that bought out his arbitration years.

Aaron Hill, Tor $5MM for 2111. Last back loaded year of the 4 year contract.

Dan Uggla, Fla, $5.35 for ’09. Probably more for 2010.

Lious Castillo, Met, $6.25MM for 2010 & $6.25 for 2011. The last 2 years of a 4 year contract.

Brain Roberts, O’s, $10MM a year 2010-2013.

Chase Utley, Phillies, $15.286 in 2010 -2013. Midway through a 7 year contract.

Dustin Pedoria, Boston, $5.75MM in 2011, $8.75MM in 2012, $10.25MM in 2013-2014

Brandon Phillips, Reds, $6.9375MM in 2010, $11.188 in 201. The final 2 of a 4 year deal.

Ian Kinsler, Rangers, $6.2 MM in 2011, $7.2 in 2012. The final 2 of a 5 year deal.

Robinson Cano, Yanks, $9MM in 2010, $10MM in 2011. The last 2 years of a 4 year deal.

A couple telling pattern is here. Remove the contracts made prior ’08 , not just because they are the oldest but because there has been such a huge economic change since 2007, and we are left with Uggla, Roberts & Pedroia. Does anyone that voted the use the $8MM option or pay $6MM a year for 2-3 years to Sanchez care to show me why the Giants should view Fred Sanchez as being in the company of Uggla, Robberts or Pedroia?

I reserve the right to later voice objects for between the lines reasons.

Sabean will give him and extended contract. He has stated so numerous times and there is no reason to not take him at his word concerning Freddy Sanchez.

He is the ideal and perfect candidate for a mutli-year contract from this franchise.

He is old and getting older.
He is injury prone and getting injured more often in different body parts
His overall performance is in decline
He had little power before and has even less now. (10 career homeruns are you kidding me?).
He has no plate discipline (walked twice in 105 plate appearances and has almost 3x Ks to BB in his career)
He has no speed

But like the mutts keep muttering: He is a three time all-star and .300 hitter. And he can be a new face of the franchise along with Zito-Rowand-Renteria for the ever-newer and lamer attempts at hip cheesey promotional ads for next season.

And pre-adolescent girls will squeal that he is cute and cuddley. Kruk will tell everybody every night that Sanchez reminds him of Kuip when it is pointed out that Sanchez has no power, no speed and no plate discipline, whatsoever, and that he is a gamer like Kuip was, and is a team guy like Kuip and that he is a clubhouse leader and brings chemistry and veteran presence and intangible things that are all part and parcel of the Giants way.

And Mychael Urban and Ray Ratto and KNBR and Comcast Sports will gush spooge all over his baseball card and invite him to participate in the unicorn hour and KQED pledge night and talk about his charity work with disabled iguanas with speech impediments and other learning disabilities.

And Tina Turner will keep on singin, the turnstiles will keep on turnin’ — and the river will keep on rollin’

2/10. He wants more, let him walk and grab Uribe.

MLBTR linked to this, which provides a decent breakdown of available 2B for next year. Of course, he thinks that we should pick up the option on Sanchez, which is kind of retarded, but it’s still a nice piece.

Sign him and trade for a hard throwing lefty starting prospect

- Pay the $600K to buy out his option and then offer him arb

If Sabes is smart enough to do this then here are the possible outcomes:

1. Sanchez turns down arb, becomes a FA, and signs with another team in the offseason. We then get a supplemental 1st round draft pick in the 2010 draft since he’s a Type B free agent.

2. Sanchez accepts arbitration. I believe this is highly unlikely since he’s not getting any younger, and will want to sign a multi-year deal to lock in some major $$$ – by agreeing to arb then the best he can get is 1 year deal. However, if he does agree to arb then I don’t think he’ll even get the $6.1M he made in 2009. More likely he’d be awarded close to the minimum of 80% of his 2009 salary ($4.88M) due to the fact that he’s coming off of 2 consecutive sub-par years with significant lost time due to injuries.

3. Sanchez realizes that his leverage isn’t great, so he swallows his pride and has his agent work out a new deal with heavy incentives before the Giants buy out his option year. I would want the deal to be a 1 year with a 2011 club option year that can be bought out for $500K. It should be a low base salary of around $3-3.5M, with incentives, based on production and games played, that could bring it up to the $6M range.

4. Sanchez refuses arb, becomes a FA, sees how lean the market is for an injury-prone 2b FA that barely has an OBP above .320 and ends up signing with the Giants for a salary similar to the one I listed in #3.

I would guess that #3 is the most likely scenario if Sabean is able to swallow his pride, admit he made a poor trade, and call Sanchez’s bluff. But, Sabes being Sabes, I predict he signs him to a new 3 year deal for about $6.5M per – and then crows about what a great deal he made for a gritty vet that recently won a batting title and so must be a “professional hitter”.

Offer arb, low-ball, collect picks, sign LopAmura, etc.

I don’t want to have to find another adoptee again.

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