Alex Pietrangelo has been in Las Vegas for the last few days, meeting with team officials, seeing the sights, and hammering out a contract.
Today, he got his deal:
It looked like it boiled down to exactly what Blues fans suspected, but it’s a little more complicated than just a NMC. Jeremy Rutherford points out that the Blues last offer was for a longer term, but less pay a year. At seven years and $8.8 million a year, Vegas is paying Petro more per year than the eight year, $64 million contract that the Blues last put on the table, but Petro will be making $61.