Mark Buehrle's contract with the Chicago White Sox to end this year – MLB News
The Chicago White Sox starter Mark Buehrle’s four-year contract is nearing an end as the star player is braced to make the last start of the season on Tuesday, September 28. Having already made 30 starts this season, 31st will be the longest streak
in the Majors.
All that the player needs is to pitch just over an inning to make it 200 innings in 2011. However, if this streak is to continue uninterrupted, he will have to remain with the Chicago White Sox next year. But that does not seem possible as Buehrle is in
for free-agency as the 56-million-dollar deal will formally come to an end this year.
Buehrle, who has an ERA of 3.72 with 12-9 winning record, wants to be part of the Majors. Being a free-agent for now, Buehrle wants a couple of more years of his career to play in the professional circuit. Even if he does not get a deal of five years, he
says, he still wants to look for at least a two year deal.
"Obviously, I'd like to play two or three more years," said Buehrle, speaking in the White Sox dugout before Monday's series opener with the Blue Jays. "Getting a five-year deal is probably not going to happen. If a one year deal was the only offer, then
you got to take it.”
There is less known what the Chicago White Sox team management intends to do. With the team manager Ozzie Guillen already gone, it is interesting to see what Buehrle will eventually get. With a whole gamut of talented starters available, in the form of Jake
Peavy, John Danks, Zach Steward, Chris Sell, Zach Stewart and Gavin Floyd, Buehrle’s extension remains an option as well.
There remains little doubt that this starter holds immense talent. The success he has exhibited in the 2011 season, there is a chance that he might get an extension. However, not much could be speculated about it as Mark Buehrle himself is not really inclined
to go for any speculation about the matter as yet.
“I'd like to think so, but they have a business standpoint," Buehrle said. "Money they spent this year and we didn't get to where we should have been and what they have out there for next year, and young guys they want to get in the starting rotation.”
For now, with a positive outlook, this Chicago White Sox starter, with over 30 starts this season alone, wants to look for a better prospect for the future. He realises that he has to move on and leave the team either this year or in the coming years.
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