Is your giving Derek Jeter like money to a 3rd basemen when the market is saturated with 3rd basemen. Take your pick at the remaining 3rd basemen, Glaus, Blalock, Kouzmanoff(SD wants to dump kouz so make a deal). All of these players will command alot less money. Heck, Glaus is good for at least 3-4 more seasons. Buy low. And it's not like $50M in free money is alot of money. I mean that's like only 2 aces or two pujols. That's it.
Now don't get me wrong, I like paying big money if you have only one or two holes to fill in but their is more then two holes to fill in Seattle and that's the problem. It's like repairing a leaking bucket. If you want to repair take out the water and clean it out. I'm inclined to think figgins should have just got last year's salary and not a big payraise. 4-5 years 24 million tops. And heck I wouldn't even care if M's lost the bidding since a combination of Nick Johnson and jose lopez would give you the same net obp over say branyan and figgins.
Now, if you press the argument that figgins is the true future 2nd basemen or ss then it becomes easier to swallow the cost. But isn't that ackley's role or lopez? Granted I like figgins over jose lopez.
Also, it's not like their is a small market of fast infielders with 30+ net sb and good obp. Take the rangers for instance who have esteban german as a possible infielder(he made only $400k last year). Esteban German btw has had a higher obp in the majors in one season then figgins and potential for 70 SB in a season. The A's have also a similar player in the minors with the player name of Michael Richard. I don't know the more I look at that cost, the more ludricious it seems.
Waste of money, my 2 cents
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