Jonathan Lucroy signs five-year contract extension with the Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday, March 27, made another move, signing the catcher Jonathan Lucroy on five-year contract extension. The contract will go up until 2016 with a club option of 2017.
The contract extension comes as a positive and exciting development for the player. It, after all, came on a day when he gave a superb performance against the Kansas City Royals, having gone 2-for-3.
Among other things, this will bring about the kind of security and satisfaction that the player needed at this point in time. The talks on the extension were lingering, and there was no certainty when –if ever, there would finally be sealing of the contract.
"I remember after being drafted we were in Casper, Wyoming, on a road trip at 3 o'clock in the morning in the middle of nowhere," Lucroy recalled. "You're out there in the middle of these mountains, and I remember being awake and sitting there thinking,
'What am I doing here right now?'
If Lucroy, during the contract, is able to gain Super 2 arbitration-eligible status once this season ends, he will be able to get $13 million which is – for now, of $11 million over the five years. With the contract that has been sealed now, Lucroy has become
this team’s fifth home-grown core player with multi-year contracts.
“I never thought five years from then I'd be sitting here. So it's definitely a blessing. It's a lot of fun. It's not all about the money for me," Lucroy said. "I believe this organization gives me the best chance to get better.”
2012 will be the second season for the 25 year old player with a wonderfully good performance the past year. He had .265 average in 2011 in 136 games, with 12 homers to his credit and 59 RBIs.
His presence in the National League Championship Series was all the more important whereby he had an average of .294 in the total of six game.
If there was a need of any proof of his command, the Cactus League average of .486 serves it right with 17-for-35 so far.
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