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Originally Posted by Parallex
Yeah there was some risk involved. That doesn't make them any less team friendly... unless your definition of "team friendly" requires zero risk (in which case no contract extension signed by anyone since the elimination of the reserve clause has been team friendly)
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What are you actually even arguing here? I said there's no evidence that anyone has given the Jays a team friendly contract in recent memory, and even the most team friendly contracts they had (EE and Edwin), when signed, were considered overpayment by most around baseball and a very big stretch by Anthopoulos.
This whole team friendly contract is an NHL concept, and exists solely because of a hard salary cap and taking every dollar you can results in having less quality players around you. This concept does not exist in MLB or the NBA because of the way their CBAs are structured and not having a hard cap.
Sanchez was always going to command a fortune, but I agree that having Boras as his agent probably turns a fortune into a ridiculous demand and makes a move more likely. Jays were always going to have throw their 5 year rule out the window and be willing to pay David Price money if they have any intentions of keeping Sanchez, regardless of the agent.