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https://theathletic.com/3193370/2022...osh-donaldson/

• And finally, some in the sport expressed amusement — or was it exasperation?— that Rockies owner Dick Monfort, the chairman of baseball’s labor policy committee, awarded the most baffling free-agent contract of the winter, seven years and $182 million for Kris Bryant.

Part of Monfort’s mission on the owners’ negotiating committee was to hold down salaries. With the Bryant deal, he’s again giving the sport whiplash. Just 13 months ago, he traded Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals and included $51 million to cover his remaining guarantee.

Yes, Arenado wanted out, but let’s not forget why he was so eager to leave: Monfort fails to run his team with a coherent vision, as evidenced by his team’s nine losing seasons in the past 11 years.