Post by asm19 on Dec 12, 2023 15:04:02 GMT -5
The Sox - depending on where you look/if they want to over the CBT - have somewhere between 40-60 mil to reasonably spend. If they opt not to use that on current free agents, I'm curious what it would look like to take back a bad contract in exchange for a player that they actually want - with the mindset being that the money towards "Bad Player A" is instead treated almost if it were a free agent contract for "Good Player B."
Example:
Tarik Skubal (entering Year 1 of Arb - 3 mil salary in '24)
Javier Baez (4 years, 98 mil)
What would Tarik Skubal (hypothetically) make if he were magically a free agent right now? He's 24 and incredibly talented - would you sign him for the the equivalent of 100-120ish mil (factoring in Skubal's arb salary) over 3 years, with a defense first second-basemen coming in tow?
To be honest I don't know if the Tigers do this, but I'm curious about something like this as a concept if a big money addition isn't coming through free agency and they have dollars to spend. Are there other examples of this that would be more feasible?
Example:
Tarik Skubal (entering Year 1 of Arb - 3 mil salary in '24)
Javier Baez (4 years, 98 mil)
What would Tarik Skubal (hypothetically) make if he were magically a free agent right now? He's 24 and incredibly talented - would you sign him for the the equivalent of 100-120ish mil (factoring in Skubal's arb salary) over 3 years, with a defense first second-basemen coming in tow?
To be honest I don't know if the Tigers do this, but I'm curious about something like this as a concept if a big money addition isn't coming through free agency and they have dollars to spend. Are there other examples of this that would be more feasible?
