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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Fielder is coming off a bad year by his standards like Kinsler, but unlike Kinsler, he can't field for shit and his contract is a massive albatross (7 years/168M). Texas may still get a couple of good offensive years out of him (and it may make their team slightly better in the short term), but they're going to be paying a declining DH 24M a season well into his mid-30s. It's a horrible contract.
Considering what they'll be able to do with that freed up money (re-sign Scherzer and potentially Miggy), this is a win for Detroit, not Texas.
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The Tigers sent $30 million to Texas.
So the Tigers will be paying the same for Kinsler over the next 4 years as they would've paid for Fielder; $4 million more than the Rangers will pay/season for Fielder due to the offset.
The money they freed up won't surface until 2018. By then they will have already had to shit or get off the pot on Scherzer and Miggy. The only contracts they have in place for 2018 at this time are Verlander and Sanchez.
This will have next to no impact whatsoever in what they can do with Cabrera or Scherzer.