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If you can't pay the best* pitcher in the game $15-16m a year -- compared to what Santana and Sabathia got -- and still pay for a contending rest-o-the-24, then you're not a contender...
Assuming it's structured along the lines of $10-12-17-18-19, that's pretty close to where Olney quoted the GM consensus.  6 / $100-110 was what the GM's thought and Felix is a $22m 2015 season away from that.
6/$100 would have been exTREMEly fair to the M's, and Felix even backed down from that by a few million, so I'd call the deal fair-but-favorable to the M's.   It also rebuffs my original worry that 4/$55 was too insulting, because the advance of 1/$23 to touchdown dance, shows that 4/$55 was a pretty good launching point.
All around, 5 / $78 is a real sweet spot, pretty much a dream contract for M's fans, and makes Felix filthy rich for the rest of his life.
:cheers: