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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
Believe me, I'm well-versed in saving these types of games from themselves.
But it looks like they can afford him. And getting a player of Lindor's quality is hardly ever catastrophically dumb
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I am going to go ahead with the deal straight up. From my end I'm likely to get negative feedback from the fans for letting Lindor go when we have playoff hopes (currently 4 games up in 2nd WC position).
Since I shopped Lindor around a few interesting things have happened. Lindor's morale has tanked and his extension request went from $43M to $57M. He appears pretty pissed.
Secondly, attendance at the last 2 home games is about 50% under average despite beautiful late July weather and the arch-rival White Sox in town.
Also, the Team Focus has suddenly gone from Win Now to Rebuild. All of this seems to be caused by shopping Lindor for 2 days, even without pulling the trigger.
So, I may be in for some short term pain which will make me feel less guilty about the DBacks situation.
From the DBacks side they look to lose a good piece although admittedly our scout has him ranked a half star higher than the OSA. On the money side there is $6M left on this year's deal and as mentioned before maybe they can recoup some of that with increased attendance and spinoffs from club interest.
Will be interesting to see what happens with Lindor and the DBacks through the offseason.
My guess is they will free up some money and then sign an extension somewhere around Cole's $36M+ to make him the game's highest paid player.