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per Ken Rosenthal.
I tend to look at this as three years at $10-12m with the fourth year practically free. Fangraphs has his value, last three years, at:
2009 - $27.4m
2008 - $11.0m
2007 - $12.5m
Last year fangraphs had him as one of the best players in the league, based on a sky-high +16 runs defensively ...
Assuming a regression to 2007, the M's did indeed get four-years-for-the-price of three...