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kungfucampby
Everyone. Everyone is getting an extension. There will be no Free Agency!
mj-2
So wait…you mean big market clubs would actually have to scout and develop their own talent from now on? The horrors of it all!!!!
johnsilver
If you look over a few, like St. Louis and Boston? You will find that not only do they have a fair share of home grown talent on the roster, but a good stable of top prospects near ready to step up and contribute within 1-2 years also.
Not all teams use check book diplomacy, rather than scouting and development, then grow old at the same time like a couple of other teams do.
Shin_Soo_Choo
Except Boston gets to keep their homegrown talent whereas small market teams lose theirs to Boston.
Link
or Yankees…or LAD….
mj-2
St. Louis was 10th in payroll last year. I wouldn’t call them large market. Boston is really the only exception here. LAA, LAD, NYY, PHI, DET…….garbage scouting and development for the most part. In b4 you tell me all about Mike Trout. That’s 1 guy for LAA.
Brandon
Oprah is GMing every team now.
CubsFan5
RIP Free Agency.
mj-2
Don’t worry…there’s still that trade deadline where the Cubs will sell like always.
chrisenvy
You mean like they did in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011? I TOTALLY remember that.. by that, I mean. It didn’t happen. While The Cubs are in a rebuild, yes.. they sell. It’s what you are supposed to do.
mj-2
Mad Cubs fan is mad. It was a joke. Deal with it.
iLIKEtheGIANTSmucho
I think now’s the time to extend Sandoval. He’s stated in the past that he’d wait to condition seriously until he was essentially forced to due to age and impending free agency. He’s in the best shape ever in his MLB career and that has plenty to do with his motivation to buckle down and make some big bucks. Not that there’s a direct correlation between weight and productivity, I believe Sandoval will go on a year this season and has a better chance to stay healthy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s going to be paid tens of millions more if he waits, so if a deal can be hammered out now I would be glad. Plus, it’s not like the Giants have a great 3B prospect being groomed to take over
raymondrobertkoenig
Interesting that Epstein wants to pay Samardzija for what he has done but when talking about free agents he doesn’t want to pay for past performance, rather for future production.
ztoa
How do you compare Andrus and Simmons? Andrus has… 18 HRs for his career, Simmons had 17 last year. Andrus averages 33 SBs a year, Simmons stole 6 last year. Not sure that that is the best comparable for any extension talks. He looks more like a mix of Escobar & Cabrera.
Mil8Ball
Funny how he has the incredible range to be a GG at SS, but can’t steal a base to save his life.
Mil8Ball
I’m kind of surprised Segura won’t sign an extension after the second half of last year. If he suddenly can’t hit 10 homers or hit better than .270 this year his value will plummet. He must really believe he can be the AS he was in the first half.
He looked pretty tired towards the end of the season so maybe fall league and/or winter ball was starting to get to him….I Dont think he had much of a break last off season. All I can say is good luck hope it doesn’t backfire on him.