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Originally Posted by Marcellus
Arenado is the exact type of player you unload the Brinx truck for.
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Why?
He's carrying the same contract he carried two years ago. 2 years ago the Rockies couldn't get anything more than Gomber and Montero. And to even get that much they had to chip $50 million into the pile.
Nothing Arenado has done in the 2 years since has demonstrated he's demonstrably better than the player that was traded. Moreover, he's now used 2 more years of his prime. Might he want a little more added to the last 2 years of his deal? Yeah - probably. But the market for him is fairly well established by the Rockies trade and I've seen little to indicate it will have shifted much.
If they add $3 million to the deal in 2026 and $8 million to it in 2027 that gets him up to 5/155 left on the deal and $31 million/season. I don't see the market substantially beating that. Some may site the Rendon deal but again - that deal came BEFORE the Arenado trade that established his market. And also, the Rendon deal was universally panned and has proven to be absolutely reeruned. It's like the A-Rod deal way back when, when teams just spit on agents that tried to use it to 're-set' the market for essentially a decade. Some deals are so damn bad that they serve no purpose in negotiations and that's one of them.