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Originally Posted by alnorth
Lets not make this a bigger deal than it is. Its not the amount per year thats amazing, its the length of the contract. If a team wants to take a risk that a contract will look bad 5 years from now, fine. Crawford is getting $21MM per year. Thats not all that far off what we are giving Greinke (if he stays) and Meche next year.
Crawford is probably only worth about 15 or so million right now given his easy to fill position and his WAR, so hes being overpaid a little, but the red sox are taking the risk that they might have one of the worst contracts in baseball 3-4 years from now.
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Again, part of the point is that it really isn't a risk for Boston, because if he struggles on the back end they can just buy their way out of it.