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07/10/2010 - Joliet, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Elliott Sadler said he does not plan to return to Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2011 Sprint Cup Series season.
Sadler spoke with the media on Friday at Chicagoland Speedway. The 35-year-old driver said that he doesn't fit in the racing organization's future plans.
"At this moment, I do not expect at all to be back with this organization," he said. "I'm okay with that, because I'm a huge fan of Richard Petty's. He deserves to be a part of this sport for a long time. He brings a lot to this sport as far as the fans are concerned."
Sadler did not indicate what his plans are for the future, but said he recently has spoken with some teams.
"I feel really good in the area my career is going next year," he said. "I've had a lot of good talks with a couple of different car owners during the last two months. We'll see where it takes us. I should know something here in the next month or month and a half on what my future will be for next year."
Prior to the start of the 2009 season, Sadler signed a contract extension with RPM to remain as driver of the No.19 car through the remainder of this year.
He has three career Cup victories, but has not won since September 2004 when he drove for Robert Yates Racing. He has finished no better than 22nd in points since 2005.
Currently 28th in the standings, Sadler's best finish after 18 races this season is 17th, which came last month at Sonoma, CA. He will start 16th in Saturday's 400 mile race at Chicagoland.
Earlier this week, RPM named Todd Parrott as the new crew chief for Sadler's team. Parrott previously served as his crew chief at Yates from 2003-05. He led Sadler to a ninth-place finish in the inaugural championship Chase in '04.
<< Rockies hoping to gain further ground on sliding Padres
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With their lead atop the National League's West Division
beginning to shrink, the San Diego Padres will be attempting to fend off the
hard-charging Colorado Rockies in tonight's middle test of a critical three-
game series be
<< Serbia wins doubles to go up on Croatia in Davis Cup
Split, Croatia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Janko Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic took
an easy doubles win Saturday to give Serbia an advantage over Croatia in the
best-of-five Davis Cup quarterfinal between the rival nations.
Tipsarevic and Zimo
<< Angels aim to further bury struggling A's
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are
set to play the second contest of a three-game weekend series from the
Coliseum this evening.
Pitcher Scott Kazmir has fallen far short of expectations for the An
<< Marlins continue road trip with another test in Arizona
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former first-round draft pick Ian Kennedy tries again to
snap a nearly two-month free-fall when the Arizona Diamondbacks host the
Florida Marlins tonight in the third game of their four-game series at Chase
Field.
The tea
France clinches upset of Spain at Davis Cup >>
Clermont-Ferrand, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - France rode the doubles team of
Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra to victory Saturday as it clinched the win
over reigning two-time champion Spain in the Davis Cup quarterfinals.
Benneteau an
Edoardo Molinari in front at Scottish Open >>
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Edoardo Molinari fired an eight-under 63
on Saturday to move atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Scottish
Open.
Molinari finished 54 holes at 15-under 198 and is one stroke clear of first
West Ham lands Mexican winger Barrera >>
London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - West Ham is set to sign Mexico
international Pablo Barrera, according to his current club, UNAM Pumas.
The 23-year-old winger made three appearances as El Tri reached the last 16 in
South Afric
Taylor signs City extension >>
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Goalkeeper Stuart Taylor has signed a
two-year contract extension with Manchester City.
The 29-year-old arrived at Eastlands on a free transfer last summer to provide
depth behind regular number one S
In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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