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Quote: Originally Posted by dran1984

Not if you look his whole situation. When he rejected the $108M deal from the Nationals, Elvis Andrus had just signed his $120M deal. Desmond is/was a better hitter then Andrus and Desmond has been the time hitting SS in baseball the past few years, except for Tulo. Desmond had every reason to believe he could get more then the $108M. Now, you can say he should have accepted the QO. However, the entire industry was predicting at the time that he would get at least $90M. He was hurt by the draft pick compensation, as well as the fact that so many teams are rebuilding. Desmond would be an upgrade over most teams starting SS. Hindsight is always 20/20. But it is short-sighted to say that he was an idiot for how this played out.

Andrus is seen as a far superior SS defensively and less likely to be injured.
either way it was $108 Mil no matter how crazy the rangers were to sign Adrus at that price or not.