Josh Beckett Free Agent?
Posted by chad on Thursday Mar 11, 2010 Under MLBThe end of 2010 may be a sad year for all the Josh Beckett fans out there. The 29 year old hurler, who has won 106 games and lost only 68 since his big league debut in 2001, will become a free agent at year’s end. According to the Boston Globe, the Boston Red Sox are doing all they can to keep that from happening.
It is likely that Beckett will have to agree to some kind of medical language in the contract to protect the Boston Red Sox from losing him to a bad right shoulder. This offseason, when the Red Sox signed John Lackey, for five years and $82 million, they threw in a provision that Lackey will have to pitch a sixth year at the league-minimum salary if he gets Tommy John surgery at some point in the first five years of the deal. Also, J.D. Drew apparently has sort of the same deal with the Sox if he hurts his shoulder and supposedly Jason Bay was not signed by the team, because he would not sign a deal with any kind of medical limits in it.
Hopefully everyone stays well and off the disabled list this season.