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Source: Maddon nears 3-year extension with Rays

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Manager Joe Maddon, shown with owner Stuart Sternberg, led the Rays to the AL title in 2008.

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By MARC LANCASTER | The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 20, 2009

Updated: 05/20/2009 05:17 pm

ST. PETERSBURG - Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon will finalize a three-year contract extension sometime in the coming days, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Maddon is in the last year of his original deal; the new one would lock him up through the 2012 season.

Neither Maddon nor team officials would comment on the pending deal.

"I have no comment because it's an ongoing matter and it's team policy to not really comment on those things," Maddon said. "At the appropriate time we will, obviously, but it's just not the appropriate time yet."

Executive vice president Andrew Friedman took a similar stance.

"It is a private matter and we don't comment either way on these types of talks," Friedman said. "We'll announce it if we do."

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