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What makes you so confident he would accept? If he is coming off 3 years of what he’s done the last 2? I’ve mentioned in other posts that he’s younger and a better defender than both soler and Hernandez, who are similar offensive profiles. If he performs as well as last year, or better, I’d be shocked if he doesn’t have a market value higher than 1 yr 20mm. Tho the QO would hurt his market value.
RPs get used a bit more frequently early in the season with more frequent off days, SPs still building up and when the RPs are still fresh. There were 61 RPs with more appearances than Kimbrel’s 10 coming into today, and 109 RPs with 10 or more appearances coming into today.
The thing that kills me is using the closer with a 4 run lead. Hyde did that with Bautista a few times last year, I hope we don’t see that with Kimbrel.