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Originally Posted by PGM
Hey if the Cards can't win it this year I'd have no problem with the Brew Crew winning it all...By the way who do you think the Brewers will keep out of Sabathia, Sheets and Fielder? Aren't they all 3 free agents after this year?
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I know someone else said it, but I think we have Fielder locked up for the next couple of years. Next year is his first year of salary arbitration though and we certainly aren't going to be able to pay him $670,000 like we are this year. I'm assuming he'll get $10 million easily. Hopefully, we can lock him up long term like we did Braun, but I'm not holding my breath. I can easily see him getting traded at some point.
Both Sheets and Sabathia are free agents. I don't see us keeping Sheets at all. I don't know if we even want to keep him. He's a great pitcher, but he's an injury waiting to happen. I think both parties are ready to go their separate ways.
Everyone says that we're just renting Sabathia this year, but a small part of me thinks we could make it work and sign him. It just depends on if he wants to stay. He does like to hit, so being an NL team, that helps.
Sheets is making $12 million this year, so that will be off our books. Gagne is making $10 million this year and he'll be gone. We have a lot of young, talented starters in Parra, Gallardo, etc., so I can see us dumping Suppan. We're paying him $10 million per year and he really hasn't lived up to it.
I think we could easily pay Sabathia $20 million per year and be a dark horse in the race to sign him.