Buzz: The Final Day of Talks for Santana
In Newsday, Ken Davidoff explains that there are two unanimous predictions within the baseball industry when it comes to the Mets 
and Johan Santana, 1) They will come to an agreement on Santana’s contract extension by Friday afternoon’s 5 o’clock deadline, and 2) they won’t complete that agreement until 4:59.
…and 3) i will blow throw 11 bottles of Pepto Bismol over the next 10 hours…
According to the Daily News, “Multiple baseball officials expressed confidence that the deal would be completed by the 5 p.m. deadline.”
…as i wrote yesterday afternoon, my sense is that they’ll eventually work out a scenario that will pay santana just over $20 million per season through five years, with a solid signing bonus to cover this coming year, and an easily attainable option year, that when all added up will give the player the seven-years and money he had been seeking…
According to Davidoff, Santana will likely get a six-year extension worth roughly $23 million a year, on top of the $13.25 million owed to him this season, adding, “A signing bonus could be included that would take the total to just over $150 million.”
Yesterday, at SI.com, Jon Heyman wrote that, although the Mets and Santana’s agents were 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.
…look, from what i understand, a) as i have been saying for months, as Andrew Marchand had been suggesting for months, as Torri Hunter recently said, and as Buster Olney recently reported, santana wants to be on the Mets and has wanted to be on the Mets since the start of the off-season, b) he does not want to go back to Twins and re-start this process, and c) he wants the money and the contract before the start of spring training for obvious reasons…plus, d) the Mets have no choice but to get this deal done…so, while i am naturally worried because i am a Mets fan, i know that a deal will get done…
