Rosenthal: Rivera wants four years

Ken Rosenthal cites Major-League sources, saying that Mariano Rivera wants a fourth guaranteed year.

You have got to be kidding me. Rivera deserves, at most, the three-year $45 million offer. Now he's just being a baby.

Rivera claims that he wants the same contract as Jorge Posada. Rivera, however, is two years older than Posada. Rivera showed a decline last year; Posada had the best season of his career. The Yankees had no viable replacements for Posada; they have a viable replacement for Rivera in Joba Chamberlain.