After an off-season full of speculation surrounding infielder Felipe Lopez signing with the St. Louis Cardinals, the deal finally became official on Friday.
The club agreed with Lopez on a one-year, $2 million contract with incentives on Friday, despite recent reports that the Cardinals weren’t looking to add another infielder before Spring Training.
Lopez played forty three games with the Cardinals in 2008 where he hit .385 with four home runs and 21 RBI.
Talks between the two heated up about a month ago, but slowly fizzled out until the past couple of days. Lopez fired his former agent, Scott Boras, around three weeks ago, likely as a result of the talks between him and the Cardinals dying out.
Many reasons factored in to the Cardinals’ interest in Lopez. The main reason se ...
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