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Oakland Athletics and slugger Brent Rooker have reached a brand new settlement on a contract price $60 million over 5 years, sources instructed ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
The contract encompasses a sixth-year choice price $22 million, which might enhance based mostly on efficiency.
The 30-year-old designated hitter recorded 39 house runs and drove in 112 RBI with a .293 batting common through the A’s 69-93 season final yr.
The A’s have been aiming to safe Rooker’s contract extension in early December, with basic supervisor David Forst noting “good dialogue” from his agent throughout preliminary discussions, in accordance with MLB’s Martín Gallegos.
The Athletic’s supervisor, Mark Kotsay, additionally steered that the group was prioritizing re-signing Rooker to a possible contract extension.
“He is fairly unbelievable,” Kotsay mentioned of Rooker after the group’s ultimate sport of the season, per Gallegos. “We do not discuss sufficient in regards to the perseverance of this child’s profession. So long as it took him to discover a house and set up himself as a centerpiece to an offense, it is fairly exceptional for him to place collectively two seasons the way in which he has. I am trying ahead to the longer term for him right here.”