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Doc, Bedard from '05-'08 AVERAGED $14.1mil of value per year. He just doesn't stay healthy enough to eat innings. Thats comfortably less than Derek Lowe and AJ Burnett, thats nearly HALF of what Sabathia has averaged over the past three years ($28mil). The market now is DOWN since that period.
Hes not a $20mil player. He just isn't. If he'd averaged 200 IPs a year and continued his '07 dominance he would be, but thats not reality.
A year ago Bedard's agent OPENED with 98/7. That was after his '07 season in a healthy economy. Do you WANT to overpay him? I really don't understand it..