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Bradley Maravalli
Good things happened when the Twins, Mets, and Cubs locked up their core. Oh wait.
Bradley Maravalli
“[Hill] made clear the team is serious about committing future cash to its homegrown talent.”
It isn’t just about signing homegrown talent. It is about adding the necessary talent that is out in free agency. If you can’t add talent to the current roster instead of constantly shuffling your roster with another team’s roster, you aren’t going anywhere.
northsfbay 2
A good farm system is a must nowdays. With revenue sharing and teams signing players to extensions, the players you need aren’t always available on the free agent market.
ChiefIlliniwek
“Locking up your core” doesn’t mean “wait until they’re close enough to free agency where you don’t have much leverage and you sign them for market value rather than losing them for nothing”. At that point it’s no different than signing somebody else’s free agents…
Jeff Todd
Stanton is two years away, the other guys being discussed are significantly further.
ChiefIlliniwek
Let’s be honest, though. He’s talking about Stanton. That’s all his audience cares about. He could lock up everybody else and lose Stanton and that’s all that will matter.
And Stanton has him over a barrel. Either they give him an extension that is equal to what he would make as a free agent or he walks. And they obviously can’t let him walk. So they’d have to trade him. And they have to trade him early enough to maximize their return. Only they still think they can sign him (or are using that publicly to endear themselves to fans), so they can’t pursue those trades right now. Over. A. Barrel.
Jeff Todd
The front office is not just concerned with Stanton, and that is not all that will matter in the long run. I’m not sure what your beef is here – sure, Stanton has tons of leverage. He’s the best young power hitter in the game and racked up service time early. What do you expect?
The Marlins say they don’t want to trade him to maximize value; they want to win, and try to extend him in the meantime. What’s wrong with that approach, exactly? Can always move him at the 2016 trade deadline if it isn’t working out. There’s risk, sure (e.g., Chase Headley), but it’s hard to blame a team for trying to build around a great young player.