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We'll have them all for a minimum of 6 years. They are unable to become free agents before then. The norm for the first two years is for them to make at or around the league minimum. After that, they start getting increases every year. I think they are eligbile for arbitration after 3 years (that maybe off by a year).
I look for Baird to start to try to lock them up through their arbitration years like they did Berroa. He's signed through his seventh year. The club gets a slight discount on what the player would normally cost, plus an extra year beyond free agency, and the player gets the safeguard of a long term guaranteed contract.
Baird has said the money is there to sign these guys. I just hope he's right.
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