February 24, 20206 yr 3 minutes ago, BrianAnderson said: yikes. aggressive. so angry. not about the money at all. it's about why would lock yourself in. guys like leury are a dime a dozen and cost the same or less. no reason to give a buyout or agree on a price for next year. Look at Scooter Gennett for example - what's his price? Who would you rather have - him or Leury? How about Brock Holt or Leury? Nothing to do with money, why give up flexibility for a guy like Leury .... it's just unnecessary move. That's why it like the Abreu move on a different scale - Abreu isn't going to get more valuable, just less valuable. So extending him was unnecessary - just play it year to year and pay market value and/or see what else the market has to offer at the price. Guarantee with those guys it comes down to playing time. They're not signing somewhere to ride the bench when a top prospect comes up. With Holt, he should get a ton of playing time in that wide open infield left side of the infield. It is kind of surprising that Gennett hasn't signed anywhere though. At the end of the day, I'm not upset they guaranteed an additional $250k. Edited February 24, 20206 yr by soxfan2014
February 24, 20206 yr Author 2 minutes ago, BrianAnderson said: yikes. aggressive. so angry. not about the money at all. it's about why would lock yourself in. guys like leury are a dime a dozen and cost the same or less. no reason to give a buyout or agree on a price for next year. Look at Scooter Gennett for example - what's his price? Who would you rather have - him or Leury? How about Brock Holt or Leury? Nothing to do with money, why give up flexibility for a guy like Leury .... it's just unnecessary move. That's why it like the Abreu move on a different scale - Abreu isn't going to get more valuable, just less valuable. So extending him was unnecessary - just play it year to year and pay market value and/or see what else the market has to offer at the price. Dude, they aren't locking anything in. The Sox are paying $250k to have the option to bring Leury back for a net cost of $3.25m without any other competition. If Leury has another decent season, it wouldn't be a total shock for him to beat that. If he sucks in 2020, you pay him the $250k and you move along. Its a non issue. Its basically ensuring the opportunity to bring him back IF and ONLY IF the Sox want to bring him back.
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