Phillies sign Kendrick to two-year deal
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Phillies sign Kendrick to two-year deal
Matt Gelb, Inquirer Staff Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. — On the day spring training begins, Kyle Kendrick has a new contract.
The Phillies have signed the righthander to a two-year, $7.5 million deal. The contract is for 2012 and 2013. It supersedes the previous one-year, $3.585 million deal the two sides reached earlier this offseason to avoid arbitration.
The deal leaves Kendrick with one remaining arbitration year in 2014. He has four years of arbitration as a Super 2 player.
If anything, the deal allows the Phillies to budget for a strict number. Kendrick was scheduled to earn a $1.4 million raise from 2011 to 2012. This deal prevents a similar raise in 2013 through the arbitration process. Now Kendrick, for budgetary purposes is locked into an AAV (annual average value) of $3.75 million.
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Little KK better come through— shawnmac
trade HOLLTWOOD CRYBABY, QUITTER, HAMELS, POLANCO, AND DOM BUST BROWN TO RAYS FOR 3B EVAN LONGORIA, IF RAYS WANT A COUPLE MORE A PROSPECTS GIVE IT TO THEM— VANIMALS SWEATY GOGGLES- The post above, and the author of it, are mere skidmarks on the way to eternity.
— 24sDad 
Comment removed.- Good followup by Dean1959 on the 'skidmarks to eternity.'
How appropriate! Great timing.
Live fast, die young. Leave a great looking corpse.— 24sDad - Little KK could become trade bait now that other teams have 2 years of cost certainty plus a 3rd arbitration year.— BammBamm
- Kendrick has no value to other teams. If were to trade him, it would be for something similar to what we got for Valdez- a minor league body or two. Soft-throwing righties with no more upside and little movement do not command much, especially at over $7 million the next two years. — Bobby Yost
- Bam Not sure GM's will be knocking down the door to trade for a RHP who throws 89-91 MPH. I'll never forget a game I was at in 2010 (CBP). I was in the upper level deeep in the RF line. KK served up a meatball to Either that nearly decapitated me. I was 300 feet from home plate and that ball was still accelerating.
KK just hit the lottery. Good for him. Personally if I were Phils GM I would have non tendered him.— joe smith - Joe Smith. If you were 300 feet from home plate you would be on the field, not in the upper level in right field. Wow. Funny man.— simplefreedom
- They're crazy. Amaro just guaranteed Kendrick another year at a salary he's unlikely to deserve. In fact, its no sure bet that Kendrick would make the team in 2013 at ANY salary. Now its locked in. Pure insanity.— SteveS11
- hah No i was in foul territory down the RF Line. Andre Either nearly torqued that ball into my skull. Be on your toes when KK is on the mound.
I like the kid personally and am happy he cashed(good for him) but when the KK's of the world are signing $7.5 M contracts then the game is too diluted.— joe smith - Lacrosse? Basketball? Football? Any male with a son under the age of 12 should be in his backyard building a pitcher's mound with the passion of Richard Dryfus in Close Encounters of the Thrid Kind while building a replica of Devil's Tower. Good for you Kyle. Enjoy paying the income taxes to cover the lowly 99%.— 5280philly
- Why commit your team to this guy for an added year??Maybe you don't worry about abitration next year because you get someone who is better than he is and you don't offer him a contract at all.He must have pictures on Amaro and/or Manuel.— snowman100
- Comment removed.
- Now you've overreached.
Time to go back to that moment where the car hit the pole.— 24sDad
