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Da ****? you mean 7 years right
To a Cub fan.... a minute can feel like 7 years :-\
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Someone who isn't out and about should merge all the Castro threads
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Someone who isn't out and about should merge all the Castro threads
so I can be first
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If it's a full 7 years and $60M without an option.... Castro got low-balled and Kinzler gave the team a discount. 7-years $60M is $8.57M per... and if he continues to develop and progress as he has... he'll be wroth a good $14-15M per in a couple of years.
As it is, he'd probably get a raise to around $5M this year through arbitration. Another bump to around $8M for 2014. 2015 would probably have him around the $10-11M rate... just in time to hit free agency and start up a bidding war with 5+ teams and get his $14-15M per. Sign him to 4 years at $14M (which would be the remaining length of this extension), you're looking at $56M. Add in the other low0ball arbitration raises... and you're up to 7 years/$79M.
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Full 7 no option for 60
BUT there is an option for an 8th that could bring the total deal to $76M
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or 100 plus years...
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I like the deal for the Cubs, personally.
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Good deal.. It looks like the timing was right to get affordable with Castro.. You wait another year or two.. It would be a very large contract.
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Da ****? you mean 7 years right
A minute or 7 years..... Same thing.
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the cubs did ok. if he is a bust its still kinda a waste of money.
"waiting a year or two and large contract" is based on ceiling and potential. No one knows what he will be.
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He WILL be the next Jeter! Minus some of the Jewelry.
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So because he has struggled a little this year means that his first 2 seasons don't count and he'll be a bust? Sorry, don't buy it.
Same can be said of any contract I guess, but don't see how it is a bigger concern with Castro than with anybody else.
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Te contract is a good deal... there are so many shitty contracts . Pujols, AROD. Fielder, Werth, Sabathia, Soriano (see, no bias), Zito.. I can be here all day naming players...
Oh well, for the hell of it ... Rios, Wells. Okay, I'm done lol.
Oh well, for the hell of it ... Rios, Wells. Okay, I'm done lol.
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Ya, overpaid veterans not with their original teams #notcomparable
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Personally, getting him for < $9MM/year is a good deal for the cubs, imo...given the lack of elite SS talent, one would believe he would be worth more than that in a year or two....but this contract seems to be representative of how he's played this year, and not to what his ceiling is...overall, I think it's a good deal, with potential of being a great deal.