Email a copy of 'Astros Make Qualifying Offer To Colby Rasmus' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Astros Make Qualifying Offer To Colby Rasmus' to a friend
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danplaysdrums
Hmm.. is anyone giving this guy 3 years?
GoRav114
No way unless its an annual value of 7 million.
Rooster
Crazy to sign this guy beyond one year. He wears out his welcome quickly every where he goes. Loner in the dressing and very weird overall. I spent a night out on the town with him with some friends. Different, but not different good.
David233
Very surprised. A lot of $ for a guy who hit .238.
lwayne
He best take the offer because he is worth about one third of that 15.8 mil. It is a 3 year paycheck for one good year and that is a maybe..
stormie
You think he’s worth $5.6 million, coming off a 2.6 WAR year and monster postseason, and being in the prime of his career? You having a lark?
GoRav114
Wow, I can only guess they are actually gambling that he won’t accept based on no other player ever accepting. I like the aggressive play but Rasmus is a bad deal for 15.8 and I cannot see any team signing him past a two year deal. This is one of those spots where they should give the player the whole offseason to accept if he cannot secure a better deal. That would keep teams from surpressing player contracts.
texasoutlaw89
I second guessed a lot of Luhnows moves last offseason….and I’m going to start this offseason doing the same thing….Yikes that’s a lot of money
mortgageman
Houston should be praying that he doesn’t accept and some other team is foolish enough to sign him to a 3 or 4 year deal. Colby is a career .240 hitter with average power than strikes out approximately 30% of the time. Don’t see the attraction.
stymeedone
We have our first taker on a qualifying offer! No one is going to give up a pick to sign a 4th outfielder, no matter what type of post season he had. Who’s next? Delmon Young? He’s had some great post-seasons.
misterb71
Consider the following. Rasmus could very well end up sitting on the sidelines of free agency and a team that goes on a spending binge signs him for a shorter, less expensive deal. Remember that once a team signs their first free agent with a QO the compensation drops to lower round picks. I could see Rasmus being signed by a team who moves aggressively to sign two top-tier free agents carrying QOs and then the signing of Rasmus would only cost a 3rd round pick.