It's May 26, 2024, 07:47:44 PM
I know, that's why I wrote real players in quotation marks and also wrote please. I've got my fingers crossed though, hell I'll even drive Jigga and Cano to Seattle myself if I have to.
Rumors are starting come out that the M's are interested in David Price. Names like Taijuan Walker and Nick Franklin have popped up as part of the possible package going back to Tampa.Your thoughts on this matter remedy? Do you like the concept of Price (and possibly Cano) being on your M's in 2014 and beyond? Do you think keeping Walker around would be a better option? Do see this trade happening at all?
Source with knowledge of the Mariners planning said they are going to offer Cano 9 years/$225 million
In the Cano thread I briefly mentioned how Seattle suddenly seemed to be able to offer a huge 10 year $250 million contract to somebody and not when their past superstars were on their way out of the door. Well I've been thinking a lot deeper about it and I thought I'd share my 2 cents.*Ken Griffey Jr.I actually poked fun on another forum about why Seattle never offered Griffey this kind of contract and I was told that it was because Griffey had requested to be traded to his relatives in Cincinnati (for the record I was not a baseball fan in the 90's). And I actually did a little research and found that it was allegedly triggered by Payne Stewart's death. However the pessimist in me has to wonder whether or not he left because he knew that Seattle was not going to fork over the money he thought he deserved, would he have stayed if he knew that Seattle was willing (and more importantly able) to give him a contract that would be the biggest ever in MLB history? I emphasis the able part because I believe that the TV deal that Seattle signed relatively recently is a significant source of where they're getting the money to pay for Hernandez and Cano's contracts. That wasn't available when Griffey was still in Seattle but the M's were owned by Nintendo, one of the biggest brands in the 80's and 90's, couldn't they have resigned Griffey?
I'm not saying that the M's didn't spend money. I'm saying that they didn't spend money on the guys that mattered.Griffey and A-Rod were at one point the best players in baseball, and in A-Rod's case he was still only 26 and definitely had another decade of good baseball in him. I looked at what the M's initially offered A-Rod and it's no wonder he left, it barely even came close to what the M's gave King Felix.I didn't even mention the other big guy, Randy Johnson. A guy who'd definitely have been worth keeping around. Although to be fair, giving a 10 year deal to a pitcher would've been just dumb.Anyway, let me repeat myself by saying that I was not saying the M's were crying poor like the Royals, Rays and Marlins are, nor was I saying that they didn't have money to spend. However, I'm just wondering why they didn't offer that money to their bigger superstars who really mattered and how different things would be now if they had stuck around. Especially A-Rod.
Fine, so I was a little wrong about Griffey then. I'll admit it, especially since I didn't know who Griffey was until he was in a Reds uni.However, my opinion on how the M's should've offered A-Rod more and how they are just as guilty for how A-Rod's reputation became so tarnished still stands. A-Rod's fall from grace started because of the Mariners' didn't even offer him a fair deal (and I know the economics of baseball have changed, but you'll never be able to convince me that the Nintendo-owned M's couldn't have given the Cano contract to A-Rod back in 2000). And while I can't say that he might've taken that contract over the one the Rangers gave him, who knows what would've happened if the M's did everything they could to keep A-Rod a Mariner for life. Then again the M's might've just dumped him onto the Yankees 3 or 4 years into that deal...