Sunday, April 10, 2016

Giants announce Brandon Belt's new six-year deal - Giants Extra

Giants announce Brandon Belt's new six-year deal - Giants Extra
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Good news for Giants fans and long over due. The nucleus stays together and next up should be Panik and Duffy. But there is time for those two. I like the ladder approach where in almost every year down the road, usually only one guy is up for renewal.

If the brass can also thread the needle on transitioning the starting staff and bullpen from veterans to youth, the Giants should be in the fight for titles for the next decade.

From Mercury News:
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Giants announce Brandon Belt's new six-year dealSAN FRANCISCO — The Giants plan to keep their core together for quite some time.

The team officially announced a deal with first baseman Brandon Belt that keeps him in San Francisco through 2021. The six-year contract replaces his current one-year, $6.2 million deal for this season and extends it another five years for similar financial terms as Brandon Crawford's six-year $75 million deal.
Belt's final two years of arbitration are now locked up, along with four years of free agency. He, Crawford and catcher Buster Posey are now locked up through 2021, with Posey's deal including an option for 2022.
Those players are all part of a home-grown core of position players that also includes second baseman Joe Panik and third baseman Matt Duffy, who are both under team control through 2020.
Belt is a career .271 hitter coming off a season in which he batting .280 with career highs of 18 home runs and 68 RBIs despite missing time with a concussion. He also finished second in the Gold Glove voting at first base last season and led the National League in fielding percentage at the position at .997.
Jimmy Durkin is a sports writer for the Bay Area News Group.
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