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Shortstop to receive $18.5 million
Published on Friday, Dec 05, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services
Free agent Edgar Renteria joined the San Francisco Giants, receiving an $18.5 million, two-year contract Thursday to replace 11-time Gold Glove shortstop Omar Vizquel.
A five-time NL All-Star, Renteria has spent 11 of his 13 major-league seasons in the National League. He won a World Series ring with the 1997 Florida Marlins and a pennant in 2004 with the St. Louis Cardinals, but struggled during a pair of one-season stints in the American League, with the Boston Red Sox in 2005 and the Detroit Tigers this year.
''I played good in the National League. I feel real comfortable,'' Renteria said on a conference call. ''Maybe I know more of the game in the National League. It's my type of league.''
Renteria gets a $2 million signing bonus, $7 million next year and $9 million in 2010. The Giants have a $10.5 million option for 2011 with a $500,000 buyout.
Renteria, a career .290 hitter, batted .270 with 10 home runs and 55 RBI this season for the Tigers, who afterward declined their $11 million option and gave him a $3 million buyout.
Giants General Manager Brian Sabean said after the 2008 season there was ''zero'' chance the Giants would bring back Vizquel, 41, despite his popularity and still-reliable defense.
''Everybody knows Omar is one of the best shortstops in the game,'' said the Colombian-born Renteria. ''Two Latin guys, All-Stars. To replace Omar, for me that's an honor.''
More baseball: Tribe prospect honored
• Wes Hodges, on track to become the Indians' third baseman of the future, has been named to the Arizona Fall League's 2008 Top Prospects Team. Hodges batted .249 with six home runs, eight doubles and 26 RBI in 25 fall league games. In 33 games at Double-A Akron this year, Hodges, 24, batted. 290 with 18 homers and 97 RBI. He is expected to begin next season at Columbus, the Tribe's new Triple-A affiliate.
• The Red Sox signed their third pitcher from Japan, adding right-handed amateur Junichi Tazawa in a $3.3 million, three-year deal. Tazawa, 22, played four years for Nippon Oil of the Japan Industrial League.
• Free-agent reliever Jorge Julio agreed to a $950,000, one-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. The right-hander, 29, split last season between the Indians and Atlanta Braves.
• Reliever Mike Lincoln agreed to stay with the Cincinnati Reds, accepting a $4 million, two-year contract after a comeback season from elbow ligament-replacement surgery. The 33-year-old right-hander was 2-5 with a 4.48 ERA in a career-high 64 games last season.
• Federal prosecutors have dropped four counts of lying to a grand jury against Barry Bonds, leaving him to face trial next year on 10 counts of making false statements plus an additional obstruction of justice charge. Bonds faces the same potential sentence range — probation to roughly two years in prison — if convicted. His trial is scheduled to begin March 2.
Colleges: Hurricane cleared to play
• Miami Hurricanes scoring leader Jack McClinton has been cleared to play Saturday against Kentucky after being ejected from his team's most recent game against Ohio State.
• Texas Tech reserve defensive back De'Shon Sanders was arrested in Lubbock, Texas, on two cocaine-related charges. He was charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, according to a federal indictment filed in New Mexico, where Sanders' hometown of Hobbs is located.
• Toledo hired Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Tim Beckman as football coach. Beckman, a native of Ohio, has spent the past two seasons at Oklahoma State.
Golf: Sheehan in tie for lead
• Australian Paul Sheehan birdied the 18th hole today to finish the first round with a 6-under-par 66 for a share of the lead at the Australian PGA championship in Coolum. Sheehan and New Zealand's Tim Wilkinson, who completed his first round Thursday before a thunderstorm hit the Hyatt Regency resort course, have a 1-stroke lead over four players.
• Henrik Stenson tied the course record at the Gary Player Country Club by shooting a 9-under 63 in the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa. The Swede made five birdies on the first nine, then added three more birdies and an eagle on the last nine. Rory Sabbatini (68) is second after birdies on the first, sixth, 10th and 11th holes. Lee Westwood (70) was the only other player to break par.
• James Nitties shot a 9-under 63 to take a 1-stroke lead over Robert Garrigus and Harrison Frazar after the second round of the PGA Tour qualifying tournament in LaQuinta, Calif.
Nitties had a 12-under 132 total. Former Kent State golfer Bryan DeCorso shot a 68 and is tied for fourth.
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