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Originally Posted by eazyb81
The Royals are going to have to extremely overpay to get any respectable starting pitcher to come here. Fans are delusional if they think someone like Anibal Sanchez is coming here for market rate over a major market team.
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Oh, I'm fine with overpaying. Overpaying by 50 percent, though, for Jackson would have been an extremely risky approach.
I was pushing for a Jackson sign until it became clear that even the Red Sox thought the contract demands were insane. 3 years, $40 million would have been an overpay (by somewhere between 25-33 percent), but not an insane one.
Much safer to overpay for someone like Sanchez, McCarthy, etc. At least in my opinion. Little more consistent, little more time gone by.