SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners and now former Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano have agreed to a 10-year, $240 million deal.
CBS Sports is reporting it as a “done deal” but the team will not confirm. The All Star usually has more than 100 RBI and about 30 home runs each year, while batting about .314. Cano spent his entire MLB career with the Yankees up until this point.
Putting $240 million in perspective:
- 20 million trips to the top of the space needle
- Five times the Seattle's rainy day fund of $48 million
- Roughly the cost of the “Mercer Mess” project
- Roughly the cost of a Boeing Dreamliner (depending on the extras)
- The most expensive Mariner’s season ticket package for the next 8,775 years
- One million Xbox Ones
- Microsoft makes $240 million in a little more than a day
- Felix Hernandez’s deal was $65 million less (but he only signed for seven years so both will average about the same each year)
- 46 times what Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson makes (he still has a very restrictive “rookie” contract)
By moving from New York to Washington, where there is no state income tax, Cano will also save about $25 million a year. That money could pay the governor’s salary for the next 150 years.
Fans KIRO 7 spoke with outside SafeCo Field said the signing was everything from “awesome” to “ridiculous.” All acknowledged the only way to get a superstar player these days was to pay so much. Most also acknowledged that the Mariners needed a splash to compete locally with the Seahawks, Sounders and Washington.