The Dodgers on Tuesday night offered Ramirez a contract with the highest average salary in Dodgers history, and the second-highest average salary among current players, Colletti told reporters Wednesday.

Alex Rodriguez owns the highest average salary in major league history. His current deal with the Yankees, signed last offseason, is a 10-year, $275 milllion pact, putting the average salary at $27.5 million. The Mets' Johan Santana has a six-year, $137.5 million contract, an average of just over $22.9 million. That means that the average salary offered to Ramirez was somewhere between $22.9 million and $27.5 million per year.

"If you saw the bid, it's nothing that we're embarrassed by," Colletti said at the GM meetings. "Manny was close to that number, anyway — closer to that area than the last place he's been."

Most likely, the Dodgers offered Ramirez a two-year contract worth just over $50 million. Colletti said the Dodgers also offered an option year, but declined to specify the exact length of contract.

"We said, 'Think about it for a while. It's not going to be there forever,"' Colletti said. "Things are always subject to change, and it depends on what else we do, to some extent. I've been asked a few times here if we're going to wait to see what happens with this before we do anything else. But I'm not sure we're going to have the luxury to do that. If there's something else that comes about that we feel we need to do, and the timeliness is there to do it, we'll have to do it."

The Dodgers acquired Ramirez in a deadline-day deal from Boston on July 31. In his two months with L.A., Ramirez hit .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBIs. He was even better in the postseason, batting .520 with four home runs and 10 RBIs in eight games.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.