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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
How do we know that the sales tag on Price would have gotten to the ridiculous Boston number if AA had have been allowed to make an offer to Price back in early November? I'm sure the guy was going to get 25-30 M a year regardless, but the extra years Boston tacked on to entice him to sign there may not have been necessary if a deal has been negotiated. It was reported a week before he signed that Boston wasn't one of his first choices.
The fact of the matter is, Price wanted to be back in Toronto and Toronto had a exclusive window to come to a agreement with him before silly season started. The fact that they didn't even discuss anything with his agent is pretty brutal and damning towards the way Jays management/ownership operate.
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Max Scherzer got $200 million last off-season. David Price is better than Scherzer (or at least he's got a longer track record of being an ace). Everyone in the world knew teams like the Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals and Cubs were going to take a serious run at Price.
So explain to me why this exclusive signing window would somehow cause David Price to not explore free agency and take $150 million from the Jays. Reading the above facts, it was pretty evident that an offer of $200+ million was realistic. That was something the Jays were never going to touch.
The fact that you are talking 25-30m per year means you just don't get it. Baseball contracts are all about the total dollar figure. The Jays may have been able to offer 31mil/year for 5 years. Guess what - that's $62 million less than what the Red Sox offered. Pitchers can't rely on getting another big money deal at age 35. Price was always going to maximize his total contract value and the number of years was basically irrelevant.
And please quit making stuff up about the negotiations. All that we know is that Price's agent said the Jays didn't make an offer (which, alone, can mean a wide variety of things). You've taken that and molded it into "they never even discussed anything". There's a massive difference between not even seeing what Price was looking for and not tendering a formal offer.