He's not a can't miss guy so I wouldn't make a matching or top offer.
Also hearing now the Yankees came in at $17M per year in their discussion and never formerly made an offer.
Indeed.
I wonder if the Yankees will be on Grienke without giving up much to take on that most of that salary. He only got 3 years left so and coming off 2 solid year. 3/89.5M with Dbacks taking on 15M. Give the Yankees a front rotation starter without those extravagant 5-6 years term.
Nationals exceeded the luxury tax in 2018 so their penalties for signing Corbin are:
Loss of 2nd "highest" pick
Loss of 5th "highest" pick
$1,000,000 from their 2019-2020 IFA Signing Bonus Pool
Being contender and the draft system is handcuffed to hurt us. The IFA is not what it once were with the caps in place. We also don't get 2 high picks for a once Type A free agent like Kimbrel anymore. We could gotten as high as the 11th Pick under the old system. We get a pick after the 4th round (in the 130th+ range) for Kimbrel.
Or it could be a steal. We need a high end performer if Sale walk, Eovaldi has high end stuff. Both has durable issues. Sale would command a monster deal to retain ($200M). I think bringing back eovaldi is a no brainer.
JDM didn't make the final 3. Ramirez play in a trash division and was sucking up in the 2nd half (.218/.366/.427). JD wasn't winning with Betts and Trout being the finalists anyway, but I wouldn't place Ramirez in the top 3.