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I think bringing Bleier back was to appease the season ticket holders. ?

First off it was a joke. Secondly if they were to sign him to a 7+ year deal that would preclude them from tendering him a contract before the 2016 season, unless they do something like refuse an option year, but why would they do that and then agree to go to arbitration?

Yes but the 2020's are only going to last 10 years, despite have 20 in them twice. ?

Am I doing something wrong? 50M X 10 = 500M. 500M X 2 = 1000 million.

If they play Mountcastle all year they won't be able to non-tender him before the 2026 season.

But his framing was aces!

Clearly better? By rWAR 2016: Wieters- 1.9 Joseph- -.9

How much talent do you think they would have had to give up at the end of the day? I think he would have accepted very little in the last day or so.

I wonder what the difference is between the lowest profit and the highest profit? Was 2016 one of the years the Orioles "lost" money? The Phillies made 88M in 2016 (Forbes). If the difference between first and 30th is 50 million a year I'm guessing a lot of team owners would rather have a half a billion dollars.

It isn't that common these days.

I'm interested in seeing what he gets. Twins paid a premium with Schoop since they signed him early.

Because you wouldn't have to compete for his services. This way you could pay a nominal fee in prospects to insure he's playing for you. Like Oakland did with Jim Johnson.

Remember what Tim Collins said.

A teammate saying something nice about a teammate isn't evidence of much of anything. A union member saying something nice about another union member isn't evidence of much of anything. It just isn't. I have not been saying anything bad about Villar. Go back and check. I've been saying that other teams don't covet him. That looks to be the case. No idea why you suddenly decided to make this personal.

It isn't evidence of anything. Mancini said something nice, the rest of the team has said nothing, do they all dislike him?

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I would expect nothing less from a teammate and fellow union member. He probably even means it.

Precise reporting isn't Roch's thing.

Hard to believe all 30 teams wouldn't be willing to pay a 4 win player 10M. They must all be buffoons.

My thought on pitchers is that a TJ surgery tends to hold up for six or so years.

Would you trade for Bundy without factoring in his TJ and shoulder issues?

They can't ignore injury history.

Because a player might reach free agency more quickly?

He's going to hit free agency then score a 3/36 contract as teams have to bid against each other to secure his services!