Chicago Cubs to hire Rudy Jaramillo

3 years, $2.42 million.

over 2 years ago Adam J. Morris 12 comments 0 recs |

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Wow

The Cubs sure are paying a hell of a lot of money to get Rudy. Given what he was making in Texas, congrats to Rudy for managing to go from highest paid hitting coach to ridiculously higher paid hitting coach.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.

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by Gdawg on Oct 21, 2009 9:28 AM CDT reply actions

Cubs NL rankings

year……obp/slg

2009….10/8
2008……1/1
2007…..9/8
2006…..16/10
2005……11/2

Hmmm… seems like they may already be a Rudy type of team.

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by RangerMad on Oct 21, 2009 9:30 AM CDT reply actions

Hope you enjoy...

working with Sori again Rudy. Good luck.

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by slc ranger on Oct 21, 2009 9:45 AM CDT reply actions

Good for Rudy.

by SteveP on Oct 21, 2009 11:03 AM CDT reply actions

When was this?

The Rangers offered Jaramillo just a one-year deal at a modest raise over his 2009 contract of $650,000 to stay in Texas, sources said.

I thought it was a 5% raise. Anyways, $806 666 per year is a huge raise over anything we were giving him.

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by coolaid on Oct 21, 2009 11:12 AM CDT reply actions

I think it was a 3% raise.

So, $670K guaranteed from Texas versus $2.42M guaranteed (unless he’s fired, but even then there must be a buyout). Not much of a choice there.

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by rooster on Oct 21, 2009 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Really that isn't much money considering they are a big market team.

It might be a lot for a hitting coach but whatever. who cares. Wish the guy luck cause there offense was worse then ours, at least when I saw them play.

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by NYTXFAN on Oct 21, 2009 11:36 AM CDT reply actions

Good for him

Anytime you can get paid like that you’ve got to take it.

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by nikpin on Oct 21, 2009 12:17 PM CDT reply actions

He's got a lot to work with there

So I’m sure if the Cubs hit well next season, we’re going to have to hear about how it was dumb to let him go. I am glad things worked out for him though.

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by egriffey on Oct 21, 2009 1:10 PM CDT reply actions