Peanuts?
Corn Cobs?
Chicken Wings?

What are you deciding to DELAY when you make your decision?

MONEY!

It’s a MONEY decision not a BASEBALL decison!

Which is what I said from the beginning!

Exactly!!!!!!! Now your getting it. Delayed the time YOU have to pay him more AND delayed the time ANY team has to pay him more……why???? Because he can’t declare free agency and has to stay with you for another “whole” “entire” year. That’s why they all do it. ITS SMART BASEBALL MANAGEMENT! So glad you got it now.

And btw……the stunting his growth argument by keeping him down a few more weeks is just plain laughable.

If he is going to leave he is going to leave those extra Two weeks didn’t get you a full year….

So you have achived little to nothing but DELAYED the time you have to pay him more…
Delayed the year his ARB starts climbing and all that while STUNTING HIS GROWTH and wasting an MLB player on a MiL team….

A. You seem to be under this illusion that willingness to offer a huge contract will ensure keeping a star player with the team. Doesn’t work that way. He can choose to take his services elsewhere. Keeping him down a few weeks this year ensures that he’s a Met another year!

and

B. When you go shopping for a high ticket item, do you look to pay more for that item or do you try to get the best deal you can? If you look to pay more than you’re the fool all salesman love. If your a wise consumer than you look for the best deal…right? So why would you expect less from baseball executives?

And what is your only option after that time?

MONEY!

That 7th year you THINK you getting is costing you the FIRST year of performance for a kid that is ready to contribute….

Your gaining nothing but one more year before you have to show him the money!

You are forced to PAY HIM MORE TO KEEP HIM as opposed to having control and paying him LESS!

Sorry guys you can use all the euphemisms you want but CONTROL is about MONEY and PAYING LESS than you would if you LOSE CONTROL….
Cause now you have no option to keep him BUT money!

Sorry but merely changing the word MONEY for CONTROL is not cutting it….
Control is all about the price needed to pay to keep him….
Have control you pay him less….
Lose control you pay him more!

Control is nothing more than the year his price goes up!

It would be dumb for a couple starts to give that away and the Core would be screaming for Alderson’s head if he did it.

Oh yeah thats right…THE PRICE!
THE MONEY!

And no, its not about money its about an extra year of control over the player.

You mean have to PAY HIM MONEY!
it’s a money decison not a baseball decision.

If it was a pure BASEBALL decision they would head north with the best 25 players they had, not leave two better guys in the Minors and take the 26th and 27th best players instead….

When the team only has to hold him down about one month this year — and this ensures the team and the fans get his services for an additional year before he can declare free agency and walk, its called smart baseball and smart business. So, think again …..holding him down one month in a season where the team probably won’t be contending anyway guarantees his services for an additional year 5 or 6 years from now when the team most likely will be a dominant force in the NL East. Only an imbecile would have him break camp with team this April. You get it now?

Because the truth is he could strike out every batter he faces in Spring Training and he will STILL get a plane Ticket to Sin City….MONEY trumps Baseball in Sandyland!