I think the floor is 4/75, however there are other similar players on the market that could effect how this plays out. I'd hate to see the Royals sign him for even 4/80 - if we cant do a 3 year contract (which we most likely can't) we should move on.

Love Gordon - was there for his first at bat against the Red Sox and have loved his leadership but baseball is a business. Teams like ours can't miss on 4 year bloated contracts to pay for a defensive tooled player. The money makes the inefficiency we are tying to exploit a losing proposition.

Gordon is not signing anywhere for a three year deal unless he's making an obscene annual average.

He's going to get four years for sure, and likely five. Maybe even six.

The most ridiculous part of this is you communicating through email...

You agree we should stay away from any contract >=4/80?

Not sure how that would work with Bird looking like a potential star this year. I guess they could put Bird at DH, but he's pretty young for that. Hosmer certainly is a much better defender.

I could support 4/80. Giving anything more than 3 years to Zobrist would be counterproductive due to his age IMO.

I don't think teams are even allowed to talk to Gordon or his agent until Friday.

You have 3 salaries to compare with Gordon. I think 18.5 would be right for him, but you have to look at Shin-Soo Choo, Jayson Werth, and Hunter Pence for the comparisons.

Correct. That would violate the CBA.

No.

I would go 5/100 for him if that's what it took.

We will find out. This team just won a championship so there isn't any reason not to raise the payroll higher than it's ever been. The attendance and t.v. numbers are up higher than even their owner expected.

If he doesn't pay now, he won't ever do it.

Charchandwick West will send you a thank you card from Hawaii in late January.

Have seen/read that Glass is saying they aren't content with "just a good season" next year. They're going to make a push to stay on top.

For whatever sins he had early in his ownership, he has stepped up to the plate with the needed money every time he has been asked over the past decade, since Dayton Moore became the GM.

He'll give Dayton what he needs to keep the team in position to win the Central and make noise in the playoffs.

I thought the royals could talk to him exclusively until Friday and then he becomes unrestricted?

The Royals are the 29th? largest market in MLB and we started the year at 16th in salary and added Cueto, Zobrist, etc. I doubt we can go much higher.
The TV numbers don't help because we can't renegotiate our shitty deal.