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Originally Posted by Parallex
But if it doesn't they're probably costing themselves 6-7M dollars. Hard to see them getting any deal that rich (rich enough to offset the money they'd lose by not working).
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Well that's just it. I don't know enough about the draft pick compensation rules to know one way or the other. Their agents may feel that the draft pick compensation is keeping teams from bidding on them and therefore driving the market value down because certain teams won't bid now. For guys like Santana and Jimeniz, they may feel that now is their time to get that 5 year deal vs. a 3 year deal. So a 3 year 39 million dollar deal is more per year, but they might want the security of a 5 year 55 million dollar deal.