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Old 11-12-2024, 09:06 PM   #65
butterfly
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew View Post
That’s not that many. 2 a year? Look at a typical MLB roster and you few very long contracts. Blue Jays have I think 2 that are over 5 years.

You can’t really use guys like Ohtani and Soto as examples, those are outliers.
Most of those guys I’d bet are people like Ozzie Albies, Julio Rodriguez and Wander Franco who were very early 20s when they signed. Baseball GMs got smart because the market for dumb ones evaporated. In hockey there’s still time to take advantage of the dumb ones.
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