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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
And while I'm all fired up, it's a joke what the Jays are going to do with Vlad Jr. Start him opening day. When he hits free agency a year earlier, PAY HIM.
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That's more of a CBA issue. It's way too valuable for teams to put that guy in the minors for one more team control year.
Harper isn't Crosby...he's won nothing in his career. He'd be more like a really inconsistent Ovechkin...and with character concerns. There is no cap on the term or dollars he can sign for like there is in the NHL. So he can make crazy demands and let some team come in at the end and make a regrettable decision
Baseball needs a bit of a revolution to get young players in the league early and getting more money while they are producing as opposed to collecting after they proved themselves.
Most any year if you analyze the worst contracts in Baseball....they were given out by mid or smaller market teams trying to pay an Aston Martin price to buy a Corvette that's 3 years old with hard milage on it.