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Originally Posted by Jason14h
They have tons of $$ coming off the books over the next two years, and effectively are starting a rebuild (retool) with Vlad.
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Other than Springer most of that money is pitchers who will need to be replaced though. If they could find a young cost-controlled starter or two in the propsect base that would really help (eg what Manoah was that one year).
Vlad isn't even getting that big a raise ($35AAV from $28.5 this year) so this isn't a problem at all now. He's worth $35MM now easily, imo. The question is more how badly is the team handcuffed at the end, and how many years is the deal bad for.