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Anonymous
http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/

Guessing it's two years at around $50 million or three years at around $75 million, but again, that's just a GUESS, based on Colletti's preference for short-term deals and what he said on the record to reporters at the GM meetings in Dana Point today (in the interest of full disclosure, I'm not actually there). What he said was that this is the most lucrative contract ever offered in the history of the Dodgers franchise (in terms of average annual value) and that it potentially would make Ramirez the second-highest paid player (presumably based on average annual value) in baseball behind A-Rod. Ned also said the AAV of the offer is somewhere between the $20 million Manny would have made next year if his option had been exercised by the Red Sox and the AAV of A-Rod's deal, which if you do the math is $27.5 million. Boras is said to be holding out for a deal that would lock up Manny through his 42nd birthday, which is May 30, 2014. A three-year deal with the Dodgers would lock him up only through his 39th birthday in 2011. That's a pretty big gap for now.
>> Anonymous
He kind of deserves it on his performance this year but obviously you have to wonder if he's going to be able to keep those kind of numbers up. Especially since it'll be a full season this time and not a fun little" vacation" like he was making it out to be.
>> Anonymous
DANA POINT, Calif. — Dodgers' general manager Ned Coletti said at the General Managers Meeting that his organization would "probably not" be interested in pursuing free agent catcher Jason Varitek. LA has, however, made an offer to Manny Ramirez which would allow for the highest annual average salary in Dodgers' history, and the second-highest in Major League Baseball history.

And thus the Boston fueled rumors that people from Boston started to help the Red Sox is ended by a Boston radio station.

http://blogs.weei.com/alexspeier/2008/11/05/dodgers-probably-not-interested-in-varitek/

SO SORRY BOSTON FAGS. THE DODGERS ARE NOT TRADING MARTIN TO SIGN VERITEK.