First $100M Wins, brother
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Here's the sound bite from the 1970's :- )
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The SSI Diamond Club had this figured out in its head, before the rays of light from inside their eyes had even reached out and grabbed the headlines, to reel them back in. (If you think it's easy to prove the current theory of vision, you think wrong). But those of us in the bleachers need to see it laid out on a napkin:
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| Season | HARDBALL GRRRR | Warm, fuzzy hometown deal | Value/Remark |
| 2015 Arb 1 | $5m | $5m | Seager '14 = $30.4m |
| Arb 2 | $9m | $9m | |
| Arb 3 | $14m | $14m | |
| 2018 FA1 | $25m | $18m | |
| FA2 | $30m | $18m | |
| FA3 | $35m | $18m | |
| FA4 | $40m | $18m | |
| FA5 | $50m | $20m | |
| FA6 | Disney CruiseLiner | -- | |
| FA7 | 40% of ballclub | ||
| FA8 | RE coop with Stanton | ||
| FA9 | Things would start to get silly |
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One thing that fans are NOT good at, is allowing for increase in the yearly escalation of contracts given to truly desirable players, healthy ones, ones who play well at a glove spot, all that Chico Escuela stuff. Suffice it to say that if Kyle Seager had hit the free agent market in 2018, you weren't getting him for no 5/$110M Hanley Ramirez money.
