Tigers, Granderson agree to multi-year contract
Buster Olney of ESPN is reporting that the Tigers and Curtis Granderson have agreed to a five year, $30.25 million contract with a club option for 2013.
The contract buys out Granderson’s arbitration years and one year after he reaches free agency.
This is a great deal for the Tigers, as Granderson has shown that he can be a star and they have locked him up for five more seasons at just over $6 million annually. If Granderson were to play out his arbitration years, he’d probably be able to bring home more than $6 million by his second season of arbitration. To be able to lock him up through his first, and possibly second, year of free agency at such figure will work out in the Tigers favor in the long run, but right now it gives Granderson more than what he’d be able to make through his pre-arbitration years.
This is the first step in locking up their young stars. Now they need to work on locking up Miguel Cabrera long-term.
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