Saw this and figure it was worth mentioning. If he's not worried much about money he might be a decent re-sign.
Those were the exact same people other than Soler vying for playing time in 2017 before Happ was even brought up to the majors and theo signed him anyway. We even had Kris Bryant out there like the second half of last year. Maddon kept KB at 3B the first half of last year to get him in the all star game.
My take was this was a prove it contract, people can say Jay proved it, and he should be closer to Zobrist at 16 million than Almora 560K.
The bottom line is eventually Human Nature takes over. I dont care if you are a salesman, they bring in an older salesman with a track record, yet you are paid less and produce more, you get disgruntled..
If you are the fry guy at burger king, and they hire someone for the grill, that was your spot, your promotion, you are disgruntled.
You are looking at KB making 1/25th of Heyward, 1/16th of Zobrist, 1/7th of Rizzo and eventually, you gotta let these dogs be the big dogs and not pay lesser players more for being here.
Javy made 609,000 this year. Heyward made 28,166,666 this year and Javy gets shit for swinging at bad pitches. Happ made 415,000.
Yes, this is the first arby year for KB, could be around 10 million, harper is at 13plus in arby 3.
If anyone heard the KB locker room interview, he did not seem too upset that some guys wont be there. Would be real interesting to know who that would be.