First off, I'm 100% in favor of the Jays not offering more than 5 year contracts. It's simply too risky where assets sign the big contract and because of length, other teams don't want them and then the Jays can't sign anyone else because of those obligations on the books. Haven't we all learned from V.Well and A.Rod? Offer less years but front load it in the first couple years to still have a trade asset when they get worse. As for Sandoval, I honestly hope they don't cross that $100M mark on him. I simply don't see him as a $20M player over 5 years. More like a $16M player in this market (to me at least).
As for Navarro, I hate it when it becomes public but in this situation it was likely done by his agent to get the ball rolling. I didn't realize he is also in a contract year, so I understand what he's up to.
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