The New York Yankees have made a $45 million offer to keep reliever Mariano Rivera on the team, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The Yankees were waiting for Rivera to respond to a three-year offer that would make him the Major League's highest-paid relief pitcher, the newspaper said on its Web site (www.nytimes.com).
The New York Mets' Billy Wagner currently tops the wage charts for relievers averaging $10.75 million a season.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's a tremendous offer for a 38-year-old relief pitcher," Yankees senior vice-president Hank Steinbrenner told the newspaper.
"He'll be, by $4 million, the highest-paid relief pitcher in baseball, by far. I don't know what the hold-up is."
Source: China Daily
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