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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
For a point of reference, anywhere between 18-20 million would make him 4th or 5th on the list on MLB's top paid players. Ramirez makes 18.279.
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But that contract is what 3 years old now? This potential Wells deal wouldn't take effect until next year. Carlos Lee just got 100 million over 6 years, just over 16 a year. Every year salary's go up. But maybe you forgot about this thing called inflation....even at 3% that means a 17 million dollar contract today is equal to a 15 million dollar contract from 4 years ago.
If a guy like Pujols was on the open market he'd get Rodriguez like money. I don't think Pujols has his 6 years service time yet so that affects his value. When he's got the chance to make the big money, he'll be all over it and end up in New York or LA. Comparing guys who aren't unrestricted to restricted is two totally different things just like hockey. In fact it probably costs a lot more to draft and develop a pro baseball player on average than it does for a hockey player. Hence why free agents can get such big salaries.
Wells numbers in his career thus far compare very favorably to Beltrans as he approached free agency. Beltran got a huge money deal, and if Wells hit's the open maket he probably would too. 18 million a year for 7 years is probably the price of a guy like Wells. Now it's up to management to decide if thats what they want to do, or if they should look at parlaying him into multiple players and seeing where they can go with that.