Will Gibbons be the Manager on Opening Day 2014?

[TheHurl]

How exactly does this "provision" benefit the club? Does anyone actually think that without this option being picked-up we might take a chance of losing him??

 

While I agree that an extension is not necessary...but look at it as a PR/saving the question move. Now if the Jays start poorly AA and Beeston just have to say Gibbons is under contract until the end of 2015 and we intend for him to be here until then. It's a small amount of guaranteed money to avoid the questions of "do you have confidence in this man". If Toronto media had balls they'd turn this around on AA and Beeston and say "you are confident in Gibbons, does this mean that the moves you made were wrong".

[Smokey]

So what your saying that if we had went ahead and signed a guy like Manny Acta who was available and we still where last in the east it would ok because this guy had another managerial job.

 

What are you talking about??? I'm just saying this extension was unnecessary and that Gibby wasn't going anywhere else without it. Is that really that hard to register?

 

JPA caught exactly one game of RA's I don't think that is a solid reason.

 

I mentioned a few reasons and you chose to cherry pick this one. Besides, believing JPA is capable of catching a knuckleballer when the team is devoting a roster stop to his personal catcher is an egregious mistake even if it lasted only one game.

[GD]

I'm just saying this extension was unnecessary

 

It also wasn't an extension.

[GD]

Random hypothetical. If a player is in the last year of his deal, and for whatever reason both parties wanted to, would they be able to add on an option onto the end of the deal? Hopefully I explained that reasonably well.

[TheHurl]

It was automatic and in his last contract.

 

His contract for not being fired in 2013 triggered the 2015 option (to guaranteed) and added a 2016 option.

 

I didn't read the article. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Abomination]

Random hypothetical. If a player is in the last year of his deal, and for whatever reason both parties wanted to, would they be able to add on an option onto the end of the deal? Hopefully I explained that reasonably well.

 

I don't see why not

 

edited to say: I don't think they can tack on something to the contract, but they could replace it with a new one that added the option.

[Smokey]

It was automatic and in his last contract.

 

His contract for not being fired in 2013 triggered the 2015 option (to guaranteed) and added a 2016 option.

 

If that's the case then why not just sign him to a 3 year deal in the first place? Since anything short of nailing AA's wife would mean he's coming back for the 2014 season anyway... there was no way AA would fire him so fast and make himself look stupid in the process.

[GD]

If that's the case then why not just sign him to a 3 year deal in the first place?

 

Because this way, it's something of a perpetual 2 year deal.