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Melvin McMurf
a little early to talk extension with trout
C B
Also, isn’t it technically tampering to discuss another team’s player and what you’d be willing to pay him?
start_wearing_purple
Not really since he’s under team control. If he was a free agent and another team announced they’d be willing to pay him x dollars then that could be seen as tampering.
jb226 2
I think it’s the other way around. It would be a really bad move to announce what you would pay a free agent publicly, but you’re not doing anything wrong. Tampering involves players under contact of another party.
I think CB is right; discussing what you would pay another team’s player is probably tampering. In this case it’s not a particularly big deal because Trout’s under control for so long that by the time he could do anything about it the specifics of the situation would completely change, but I still don’t like it. There’s too much room for mischief.
BlueCatuli
Nope. They’re giving their opinion. They’ve made no contact with him whatsoever.
nepp
Well, if they could get him under contract to something like Longoria (or even double that), it would be the greatest bargain in the history of baseball.
Trout has inner-circle HOF upside.
BlueCatuli
You obviously didn’t read the article and totally missed the point.
Gothapotamus
With his time in 2011 and 2012, he’ll have 1+ year of service time at year end, but won’t be enough for a Super Two, meaning two more years at the 500k range and three years of arb. Considering Longoria got 6/17 with literally no service time a few years back, could be a pretty decent pay day for Trout.
It’s hard to speculate where to start and very unprecedented (CarGo closest comparable, but had one more year service time). You figure he’d get a raise in his two pre-arb years to about $2m over those two years. The arb years get tricky. 6, 8, 10? (that’s more than the $23m CarGo got for his three arb years after having two years of service time) That would make the deal 5/26 through his arb years. Maybe throw in an option for a 6th year at $20m with a $4m buyout to make the deal 5/30 guaranteed with potential to be 6/46. Even with the option exercised, he’d still be a free agent when he was 27.
To guarantee him any money is a risk, considering if he would falter, they could always non-tender him – but at the same time, at this pace, he’s looking like a $25m per year guy in his final year of arb.
WeDontNeedToFinPracticeRANDY
Did Dombrowski have to “miss recess” for his Cody Ross trade?
gamaize
I think the Miguel Cabrera trade may have let him back in.
aemoreira81
Trout is still 2 years away from arbitration eligibility (he had 83 days of service time coming into this season). He could break records, but I’d want to see more first. Let him earn his raise. Because the Angels didn’t call him up until April 28 or so, he won’t come close to Super Two status next year.