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Read: Deal Almost Certain to Get Done

by Matthew Cerrone on January 31st, 2008 at 4:53 pm

According to Jon Heyman at SI.com, although the Mets and Johan Santana’s agents are roughly $20 million apart on the total value of the deal, “high-ranking baseball people believe the deal is all but certain to get done” before tomorrow’s 5 pm deadline.

as i suggested was the case roughly an hour or so ago, heyman writes that the offer is at or around $21.5 million per year for six years – on top of the money he is guaranteed in 2008 - bringing the total package to $142.25 million…