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Well he was selected by a committee, not the writers

A floor without a cap is terrible. Will just lead to bad contracts that hamper franchises or overpaying one young player and limiting free agency.

Love this McCarthy equals junk where as everyone loves garbage…despite their careers being identical

Any massive extension is almost always done during spring training, wouldn't worry about timing. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/9111981/justin-verlander-detroit-tigers-agrees-deal-which-worth-202-million-sources https://www.mlb.com/news/detroit-tigers-announce-eight-year-extension-for-miguel-cabrera-c70257040 https://www.mlb.com/news/vladimir-guerrero-jr-blue-jays-extension https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30920472/14-years-340-million-make-fernando-tatis-jr-mega-extension-san-diego-padres

i think you're digging your head in the sand if you think they are non issues. They are the constant issues, and remain big, and any one let alone the wide gaps on multiple is why people fear a work stopage. Take salary cap for example, its been discussed. But now more owner want it because of crumbling RSN (something that didnt exist in the last few years) and they cant keep up with the Dodgers and Mets of the world. Paying players more sooner will also be a factor but owners will want to tie that to some sort of cap, which the players will hate. While they have bene tweeaked they are still major issues with wide gaps between the sides and major current and future financial factors at play. To think there is no large issue that should lead to an impasse is being obtuse and aware of the current labor situation.

I dont know if there will or not But just off the top of my head Salary Cap international draft free agency Service time Decreasing TV money on the horizon are all huge issues that could easily divide the sides into a long dispute. Thats not to mention there are plenty of reports on about how the association has its only problems between the haves and have nots and who to favor in any negotiating.

So, any Sukbal news?

What your talking about is different than "importance." You are talking likelhood. Its not important we resign Marcus at all. A million veteran DE are out there, and its not important to resign a guy who barely played for us.

Yeah but with zeitler they might have been a playoff team, and if we won the Super Bowl nobody would have cared about having an extra 7 million in this years free agency. Can’t just portray it as well we don’t sign this guy so we could have more space in 2026, could that be the right move? Maybe. But there is more to it than you present. and we signed the top corner cause we lost a top corner. So it’s not like we were actively upgrading much, more of a replacement. Again context matters.

No winning accomplishes absolutely nothing. Lower pick, harder schedule

I think a lot of this post lacks context. Williams played, but had a 1 TFL all year. He made very little impact and seemed like a luxury pic at the time. Ratledge is fine. TeSlaa was burried at fourth on the depth chart all year, and while he had a couple catches, its the problem of drafting a 4 wr development project, and trading up for one, when again there were other needs. The rest dont matter becuase the same could be said for pretty much any 4-7th pick on any team. Thats why people call it a failure. Little impact and when given context its gets worse.

11 days ago

Yikes Minnesota is “terrible” too

Good throw Jared

Yeah but if you’re just using them for depth, which is what I was saying sign a ring chase to be corner 5 instead of a cheap 6th round pick, it doesn’t matter as much. They wouldn’t be playing early and wouldn’t get injured quickly they would be the fill in when that can 2 does get hurt instead of relying on an untested guy. But we don’t have or add those guy instead we rely on the vildor of the world.