Well, it's a nice problem to have I guess. Jim Burton - signed on a 1-year $1.2m deal for this season - has proven to be an absolute bargain. Sadly however, as I mentioned in the 81 report, this has pretty much priced him out for a re-up. Our first discussion early in the season yielded an indication of in the vicinity of $4m per. Norman Einstein here (the same guy who signed him for only
one year...) decided to hold off and see how things played out for a while. So good has his performance been in the time intervening that, when we last sat down, that price had increased by near enough to 50% - $6m per and way above what I'd be willing to pay for him.
Then he goes and does this. It's been nice Jimbo; we'll always have Toronto.