Reply to "Lamest off-season ever?"

Dominik8510,000+ posts

I don't think it is the mega deals. They can turn out bad but they will still happen, machado and harper are going to sign 12 year, 400m contracts.

The guys who are mostly affected are middling to ok free agents and older guys.

Teams are reluctant to sign guys past age 36 or so because that is when aging really accelerates and rightfully so because most of those contracts are bad. There are some exceptions who work out well (cruz, murphy and especially beltre who has probably the biggest bargain contract ever for a post 30 yo player - I think see signed something like 5 years at 100m but was worth almost twice as much).

The big deals will still happen but older players are middling guys will have to fight for short contracts.

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