Utley signs 7 year contract with Phillies!
Chase Utley exchanged marriage vows with his fiancée on Saturday afternoon in San Francisco.
A day later, the All-Star second baseman made a similar long-term commitment to the Phillies, agreeing to a seven-year, $85 million contract that will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2013 season. Though Utley will make less annually up front and more toward the end, this deal averages a little more than $12 million a season.
Not a bad weekend for Chase.
This is great news. Given the nutty nature of contracts this offseason, he could have gotten a lot more. As was pointed out on a Phillies email list, we'll likely be paying for some not so great years at the end of this contract, given he'll be in his mid-thirties and second basemen tend not to age well, but we're in "win-now", so I love it.