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Originally Posted by tarcone
Its called free agency for a reason. It is a free market and the prices follow suit.
You are dumb if you dont just re-sign. The way teams are built, or can be built these days, 31 year old FAs are worthless.
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It's not a free market because half the players are under team control and most of those are vastly underpaid. (Such as the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner being forced to sign a 1 year, $573,000 contract.) It used to be fine and "you get underpaid early, overpaid later" worked out in the aggregate, but now that teams are smarter about FA valuations and service time manipulation they're trying to keep underpaying players early on, and then no one is willing to overpay them later on.
The problem the union is going to run into is that the reforms that are needed will benefit future players, but won't help current players, so it could be very tough to get the players to present a united front and agree to the changes.
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Originally Posted by miked
I don't know what people mean by less effective. In 2017 he posted his best WHIP and K/9 since his 2nd year or so. I had no idea he had been that dominant. But that's rich for a reliever. If BOS is willing to pay him 13M per, is 15-16 that crazy?
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It's not the dollars per year, it's the year's they've been asking for. Though rumors are now that he's in talks with the Brewers on one of those one or two year high $$$ deals.
The Red Sox have a lot of goodwill right now and people weren't clamoring for Kimbrel back after his very shaky postseason (even though he was perfect in save opportunities!
), but that bullpen is looking pretty dicey right now so it's a little surprising they're not in the mix if Kimbrel is now willing to accept a short term deal. (Although bridges could have also been burned in negotiations earlier on.)