The contract includes an option for a third year that becomes guaranteed based on performance levels.
If the third year of his new contract becomes guaranteed, Rivera will be 37 at the end of the deal.
To make the deal work under salary-cap rules, the teams will have to wait until after July 1, when Pierce's $15.3 million salary for next season becomes guaranteed.
If he is the starting catcher in 81 games next season, the option becomes guaranteed for $12 million and he receives an option year in 2008 with $4 million guaranteed.
Ward was sent to Phoenix as part of the eight-player trade, but the Suns are expected to waive him this week before his contract becomes guaranteed.
If Sosa is traded, his 2006 contract becomes guaranteed and a 2007 club option is added at $19 million with a $4.5 million buyout.
His option becomes guaranteed at $24m if he throws 400 innings or more in 2017-18, including at least 200 in 2018, and isn't on the disabled list at end of 2018 with left shoulder or elbow injury.
The Phillies have a $20 million team option for 2014, which becomes guaranteed if Doc pitched 225 innings in 2013 or 415 combined between 2012 and 2013.
But the offer also includes a provision that if Hutchinson is not the team's highest-paid offensive lineman at any time during the contract, the entire contract becomes guaranteed after the first season.
For example, if $12 million of Revis' 2014 base salary is added to his $1.5 million third day of the 2014 league year roster bonus (March 13) where the entire $13.5 million becomes guaranteed for skill, the cap and injury, the roster bonus will be prorated over the five years left on his contract ($2.7 million yearly proration).
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