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Old 03-28-2014, 05:01 PM   #300
stevew
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
Imagine you're Mike Trout. The Angels offer a twenty year deal. What is the lowest total salary you'd accept?

600 million?

Okay, seriously though I think the Angels should offer him like 15 years and 450-500million right now and see if he takes it.

The MLB is printing money right now and the ability to bring up a guy and only pay him 1.5million total for his first 3 years makes these larger contracts easily offset.
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