Mark Teixeira

In the next few days, Mark Teixeira WILL sign with the Boston Red Sox. It’s a lock. This little dance that the Red Sox and Teixeira’s agent, Scott Boras are doing is nothing but a smokescreen. Boras is just trying to finagle a couple more dollars out of the Red Sox and possibly get an opt-out clause in the contract. Neither of which will happen. From the looks the things, the Red Sox have offered the largest contract to Teixeira, contrary to what people may have heard. Only exception possibly being the Washington Nationals. And Boras isn’t going to send the first basemen to baseball’s version of Tikrit. The comments made last night by Red Sox owner John Henry was just his way of trying to expedite the process. And get a deal done. There has been talk the Angels offer was better than the Red Sox, but according to the LA Times, that’s not the case:

Scott Boras, who represents the free agent, traveled to Teixeira’s Westlake, Texas, home and met Thursday night with Henry, Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino and General Manager Theo Epstein.

The Red Sox were believed to have offered Teixeira an eight-year deal in the $175-million range, and a source who is familiar with negotiations but is not authorized to speak about them on the record said it was “significantly” better than the Angels’ offer.

Angels GM Tony Reagins confirmed that the team made an eight-year offer to Teixeira at last week’s winter meetings. Though financial terms were not disclosed, the offer was believed to be in excess of $160 million.

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