Torre & Girardi Officially Employed
Joe Torre is now officially the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Torre was signed to a 3 year contract worth $13 million.
Meanwhile in New York Joe Girardi was officially introduced as the Yankees manager. In the New York Post this morning Joel Sherman takes Girardi to task for his negotiations for the Yankees job. Apparently Girardi used the Dodgers opening as leverage for upping the Yankees offer for the job he refers to as his dream job. Sherman says that if it was his dream job he would have taken the Yanks initial offer (the same $5.5 million offered to Torre) and not tried to negotiate them up to $7.8 million.
I have to disagree with Sherman on this one. Whenever you are offered a job you negotiate the best benefits you can get. In this case the benefit being negotiated was salary. Every future managerial contract he gets from the Yankees will be based on this one. If the team wins 100 games a year at $7.8 million then his next contract would have to reflect the success against the salary. in other words it would have to be for more money than the first contract. If he accepts $5.5 million then the next could be less then the $7.8 million he got now. But at $7.8 million the next contract would have to be in the area of $10 million.
Also, negotiations are a big game of chicken. In this case the Yankees flinched first and gave the $7.8 million Girardi says he was offered by the Dodgers. But what if the Yankees hadn’t flinched and stuck to a $5.5 million offer? would Girardi have taken it or gone to L.A.? We’ll never know.
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