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Originally Posted by tarcone
I dont think its a spending problem, I think it is a time problem. As i length of contracts. No one wants to get saddled like the Angels did with Pujols.
2 years and $80 mil is easier to swallow than 10 and $400
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Apples and oranges. Pujols was 31 when he signed his 10-year deal (and rumors persisted as to whether he was 31, or older than that, due to the unreliability of Dominican birth certificates).
Harper and Machado are 26, and neither of them have that uncertainty.
It isn't about fear of getting saddled with an albatross. It's about front offices treating the luxury tax as a de facto salary cap because it scares players into signing for less than they're worth rather than risk unemployment.