Johan’s Hundred Million Dollar Dream: Santana Traded To The Mets

Finally. Johan Santana and the Mets have agreed to play together in 2008. The Mets– front-runners for Santana’s services this week–have discarded four top prospects to Minnesota in exchanged for one of the best lefties in the bigs. The gist:

The Mets agreed to send young outfielder Carlos Gomez plus pitching prospects Phil Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra to Minnesota, providing they can lock up the two-time Cy Young award-winning Santana to a multiyear deal and he waives his no-trade veto powers.

Wait, where’s the money? Where’s the hundreds of millions of pesos dollars that was to break Barry Zito’s $126 million dollar mark? Turns out Santana will receive $13 million from his Minnesota conract for 2008, and if all goes well in the strip club negotiation room, Santana could see himself raking in $24 million over the next five years. He can afford a really nice place in Queens for that amount of dough. Welcome to New York, brah.

Mets, Twins agree to Santana trade [SI]
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