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CMH · 03-30-2014, 04:40 PM

The potential for injury or breaking down is my real concern. I'm sure the Tigers value his market power in Detroit and simple reasoning that having the best hitter on your team (for how long though?) and a true ace makes you a contender.

I doubt in the lifespan of this deal, many players will be making $30 MM to devalue the cost of the deal but you're right that the $30 MM cost of a win could come down from where it is now.

I just think waiting the two extra years would have allowed them to better evaluate his performance past 30 and offer a contract that might meet expectations at closer value.

Either way, I seriously doubt his contract will dramatically affect their ability to add contracts to continue competing down the line.

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03-30-2014, 04:40 PM	#1897
CMH Making you famous OVR: 46 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ormond Beach, FL Posts: 26,235 Blog Entries: 1	2013-14 Hot Stove League Thread The potential for injury or breaking down is my real concern. I'm sure the Tigers value his market power in Detroit and simple reasoning that having the best hitter on your team (for how long though?) and a true ace makes you a contender. I doubt in the lifespan of this deal, many players will be making $30 MM to devalue the cost of the deal but you're right that the $30 MM cost of a win could come down from where it is now. I just think waiting the two extra years would have allowed them to better evaluate his performance past 30 and offer a contract that might meet expectations at closer value. Either way, I seriously doubt his contract will dramatically affect their ability to add contracts to continue competing down the line. Sent from my mobile device. __________________ "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer