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Davis Signs With Baltimore (7/$161M, incl $42M deferred)

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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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Yep. Even though Davis made his debut in 2008, he bounced between the majors and minors enough that he only officially has 6.061 years of service time (if Baseball Reference is accurate). That means he wouldn't hit 10/5 status until late in the 2019 season.

By then he should already be functionally untradeable.

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I was all ready for Cespedes too.

This might be a big problem in 3 years.

It also might not be. You never know.

We might win 2 championships in those first 3 years. All I care about. The first couple prime years. Damn the consequences.

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25 Nuggets Hangout Grand Counsel

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We might win 2 championships in those first 3 years. All I care about. The first couple prime years. Damn the consequences.

It's easy to say that now -- I sure hope the team can win a championship much less two.

But hey, we won't know the economic climate in four years. I'm ready for another 50 HR season. :thumbsup1:

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I was all ready for Cespedes too.

This might be a big problem in 3 years.

It also might not be. You never know.

We might win 2 championships in those first 3 years. All I care about. The first couple prime years. Damn the consequences.

Easy there, Scott.

Let's just start out by getting back to having winning seasons, which we missed out on last year with an 81-81 campaign.

One step at a time.

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CD really made out with this deal.. he should live a decent lifestyle now.

I'm sure he's in The Land Of Pleasant Living. ;)

If I had to guess, I would say that he was already there long before he signed his latest contract.

He made $12 Million in 2015, $10.35 Million in 2014, and $3.3 Million in 2013.

He probably lost his eligibility for Food Stamps a long time ago.

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I was all ready for Cespedes too.

This might be a big problem in 3 years.

It also might not be. You never know.

We might win 2 championships in those first 3 years. All I care about. The first couple prime years. Damn the consequences.

Nothing says going for the gold like holding together the core of an 81-win team!

Wonder if the core should include some good starting pitching ......

Good point, with 2 major questions accompanying it:

1) Are we going as is, or is Duquette still planning on adding another starting pitcher to the current crop that we have ???

ALSO:

2) Will Chris Tillman and/or Miguel Gonzalez return to their 2014 form ???

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Wonder if the core should include some good starting pitching....

They do need to add a starting pitcher to replace Chen but the SP situation is not as dire as people think. Last year was a season when basically everything that could go wrong did go wrong with the starting pitching. From 2012-2014, Chris Tillman was a pitcher with a 3.42 ERA and 1.20 WHIP. Last year, he had an ERA of 5 and a WHIP of 1.39. Miguel Gonzalez numbers also ballooned from an ERA of 3.45 in 2012-2014 to 4.91 last year. Why does one bad year automatically wipe out three good seasons of performances? Gonzalez and Tillman are both better pitchers than they showed last year. I also feel like Gausman is on the verge of breaking out. He had a 1.23 WHIP and a very good 3.55 K:BB ratio last year. Ubaldo is Ubaldo. You can't really count on him but if he can repeat last year's performance, that'll help the rotation a lot.

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