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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Apparently the offers that Darvish has on the table right now are in the 80 to 90 over five years range. It's one of the issues that has the players yelling collusion.
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Bah, there's no collusion. Here's the deal...
1: Luxery Tax got beefed up so the big dogs (spending wise) aren't as carefree with the dollars.
2: The Yankee's just traded for the huge contract of Giancarlo Stanton.
3: there are a few really good teams and a whole lot of "meh" teams and the "meh" teams aren't jazzed about spending big $$ on the middle class (2 WAR) free agents.
4: Next years free agent class...
http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/2019/... it's amazing. Some payroll is probably being held fallow to attract one of those guys.
So yeah, teams just don't have a lot of incentive to go hog wild this year. The usual big bidders are trying to reset their luxury tax and anticipating next years class.