Check out Craig's report at FishStripes for the basic story. After that, here's some additional stuff...
For those who won't believe it until they've heard an official announcement, George Richards at the Herald's new blog states that the front office believes it: "No one inside the Marlins organization will talk about this publicly, but off the record, they are fired up. As they should be"
Ya gotta love Bright Orange Seats' headline.
The most-sensible naysayer I've found was "Anonymous" commenting at MarlinsNation, who says, "this doesnt mean anything. all it means is that the Marlins plan on keeping him atleast one more year to avoid the $15M he'd be making next year. Instead, they save a few million. SO I guess we can be happy HanRam will stay with us another season, unless the Marlins go on a losing streak."
Considering the reports say that the deal won't include a no-trade clause, he may have a point. Josh Alper at the FanHouse reminds us: "If the deal goes as planned, it would be the first time the Marlins signed one of their own players to a multi-year extension since 2005. Of course, each of the players they signed back then, Carlos Delgado and Paul Lo Duca, ended up in different threads one year after John Hancocking the bottom line. Ramirez, at a reasonable price, will still be quite tradable throughout the life of the contract and would command a king's ransom of prospects."
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