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For me, the key to an 8 year Texeira deal is the financial situation of the team - if you are the Yankees or Red Sox and you can have a guy making 20-25 M a year at the end of the contract who isn't that great (Giambi last year) and not submarine your salary situation, then go for it. For a team like Baltimore or Washington where Tex is at least 1/4-1/3 of your payroll if not more, that'd be a tough pill to swallow for the last couple years.
The same goes for Adam Dunn in that if you give him a 4 year deal, can you handle having him around at year 4? I feel like his batting eye will age a little better then some people give him credit for and he won't be as horrendous as Sexson by the end. For Dunn alternatives, does anyone here like Pat Burrell or Bobby Abreu as DH alternatives? I'd like to see Abreu with his batting eye hitting 2nd in the lineup. The current problem is he's asking for 15-16 M a year which seems fairly steep to me.
Gus