Baseball notebook: Erstad, Sox agree on $1M deal
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By The Associated Press | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
CHICAGO — Outfielder Darin Erstad and the Chicago White Sox agreed Thursday on a $1 million, one-year contract that includes a club option for 2008.
Erstad will receive a base salary of $750,000, and the White Sox have a $3.5 million option for 2008 with a $250,000 buyout.
A two-time All-Star with the Los Angeles Angels, Erstad had arthroscopic surgery for a bone spur in his right ankle on Oct. 5 after batting .221 with no home runs and five RBIs in a career-low 40 games last season. He is the only player to win the Gold Glove as an infielder (2004, at first base) and outfielder (2000 and 2002).
“I’m excited about joining the White Sox,” Erstad said in a statement. “This is a new opportunity and challenge for me. I’ve heard this is a great group of guys, and this is a team with a good chance to win it all.”
The 32-year-old is a career .286 hitter with 279 doubles, 114 home runs, 625 RBIs and 818 runs scored in 11 seasons — all with the Angels.
Drew, Red Sox finally reach agreement
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox and J.D. Drew finally resolved their wrangling over the outfielder’s five-year, $70 million contract — more than seven weeks after agreeing to everything except what to do about his surgically repaired right shoulder.
Yankees sending delegation to China
NEW YORK— The New York Yankees are preparing for a wall even bigger than the one they see regularly at Boston’s Fenway Park.
Yankees president Randy Levine and general manager Brian Cashman will head a delegation that travels to Beijing next week for meetings that could lead to Major League Baseball establishing an academy in China.
The team hopes to establish an agreement in which it would send coaches, scouts and player development staff to China, and have representatives of the Chinese Baseball Association come to New York and the team’s spring training complex in Tampa, Fla.
Ensberg, Everett, Lane agree to 1-year contracts
HOUSTON — Third baseman Morgan Ensberg, shortstop Adam Everett and outfielder Jason Lane agreed to one-year contracts with the Houston Astros, settling the team’s remaining arbitration cases.
Ensberg will get $4.35 million, Everett $2.8 million and Lane $1.05 million.
Hall of Fame writer Jack Lang dead at 85
NEW YORK — Jack Lang, a Hall of Fame baseball writer who for two decades had the pleasant assignment of telling players they’d been elected to Cooperstown, died Thursday. He was 85.
Lang had been ill for an extended period with a variety of ailments. He died at a rehabilitation center in Huntington,N.Y.
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