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Huston Street
LazerTown
Aside from Encarnacion and Molina I don’t think any of them would have made quite as much on the open market. Ethier is the most overpaid of the bunch. He is really not that special of a RFer. Yet they gave him $17M aav.
Tko11
Cain and Hamels could of got more I think.
LazerTown
Hamels is making 24M That is only behind sabathia, who is the highest non-position player. That pretty much prices him out of all except maybe the top 8 teams, and the Yankees don’t have the flexibility to get involved. Hard seeing any other teams topping that.
Lionel Bossman Craft
I think the Phillies overpaid for him.
Grant Chastain
Up until July, there was a pretty compelling argument for the Dodgers to pick up Cole Hamels in a trade and sign him to a long-term deal as their #2 behind Kershaw. That was, of course, before they decided to absorb half of the Boston Red Sox squad like the second coming of The Borg.
Slopeboy
Resistance is NOT futile
-SF Giants
sherrilltradedooverexperience
If his history of playing through injury is what’s keeping him from hitting LHP like he did earlier in his career, it could be a good deal from the dodgers end. Of course, if lefties just figured him out at the mlb level and he truly is a platoon guy in his prime then this is a bad deal for the team.
LazerTown
Other regulars have some rough splits, granderson has a similiar one to ethier, so he is a fine regular. My only problem is that unless he can get back up to 30 hr then it is getting a bit expensive, rf is not a difficult position to fill, and now with kemp, CC, and Ethier locked up it means that they can’t move kemp to right in a couple years. That OF could get pretty shabby aside from CC.
UnknownPoster
Lol aside from Crawford? He’s the biggest question mark. Kemp has been hurt all year and is STILL putting up numbers that are considered great for a CF: 305 average, 20 bombs, and nearly 900 OPS. With a full year, and based on Kemps healthy months, I’d be shocked if his next few years aren’t a lot better than this one
LazerTown
Was talking about defensive capability in a couple seasons, and how everyone in the outfield is locked up for at least 5 more seasons.
Grant Chastain
Don’t be so sure about Matt Cain. There are always teams looking for a top of the rotation starter, and while $112.5m sets a record for a righty, there’s no doubt that a team with deeper pockets (*coughRedSox*) would have probably been willing to mortgage their future for the chance to build a team around him.
Sky14
I think Aybar could have got a deal around 5 years 45-50 million on the open market. Its rare to have a quality SS in free-agency.
55saveslives
Glad we locked up Cain! He has been STELLAR! Getting better every year!