In the final step of the deal that Mark Shapiro cut w/ Eric Wedge to get Wedge to shave that ungodly rug on his upper lip last year, Wedge has been inked to a 3-year extension that'll keep him around through 2010. We think this may also be further evidence that Wedge and Shapiro have entered into a civil union that has them stapled together for life...We want to like Wedge. He seems to have done a good job so far this year, although his team's talent is pretty sharp, and it sounds like the players like him. Our only real concern is that he had a hand in major whiffs like Brandon Phillips (who is batting cleanup in Cinci, for the record) and Jeremey Guthrie (the 36-hole leader in the AL Rookie of the Year race), and we were really unhappy w/ the way he called games down the stretch in 2005. Maybe he's learned from that. Who knows. In any event, he's got a chance to show it over the next 3.5 years.
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