Rangers Sign Shin-Soo Choo TODAY, 11:34am: Choo's deal includes ** opt-outs or options, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. It does contain a limited **-trade clause, however.
TODAY, 11:32am:*Choo's deal is worth $130MM, tweets Heyman. Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News first reported (via Twitter) that the deal was expected to land in that range.
TODAY, 11:13am:*Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo has reached agreement with the Rangers on a seven-year deal for $130MM, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (via Twitter). Choo, 31, is a client of the Boras Corporation.
As MLBTR's Tim Dierkes wrote in his profile of Choo, who ranked third on Dierkes's list of the top fifty free agents, the South Korean on-base machine hit the open market at an optimal time. Having never seen his OBP drop below a .373 mark, Choo reached a**ther level last year with a .285/.423/.462 line (over 712 plate appearances) in his first and only season with the Reds. Choo also k**cked twenty home runs in 2013 for the third time in his career. Batting atop the lineup in Cincinnati, Choo also swiped over twenty bags for the fourth time, though he was also tagged out eleven times in the process.
Though Choo played in center last year for the Reds, the expectation is that he will man a corner position in Texas. If the Rangers indeed intend to go with Leonys Martin up the middle, it would seem likely that the club would be out of the mix for Nelson Cruz.*
12-21-2013, 08:49 PM
Rangers Sign Shin-Soo Choo
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