Adrian Gonzalez, Boston Red Sox agree to seven-year, $154 contract

[JonLP24]

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox signed first baseman Adrian Gonzalez to a seven-year contract on Friday

He will receive $154 million during the deal, multiple media outlets, including ESPN, reported. Gonzalez receives a $6 million signing bonus, $21 million a year from 2012-16 and $21.5 million a year in 2017 and 2018, sources with knowledge of the deal told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. Sources also said the deal has a partial no-trade clause.

Gonzalez said signing such a long-term deal lets him focus on baseball: "Let's forget about everything else, just focus on winning and being part of the team," he said.

Entering Friday's games, the Red Sox are 2-9, the worst record in baseball.

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=6359978

[Auggie]

1. I love it when they say "signing a long-term deal

lets (me) focus on baseball... let's forget about everything else." I'm waiting for someone to come up with a better line than this same old B.S.

[bluedigger]

2. $22 a year sounds about right...

[chelsea0011]

3. I'm sitting here waiting for his perfect Fenway swing to show itself.