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Originally Posted by munchen
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Marlins just signed Delgado to a four-year, $52 million deal. This will be huge for Florida but in a tough division they will still have a rough ride. Personally, as a Jays fan, i'm just depressed he's gone and hope the leauge impliments a cost certainty system before eveybody leaves and baseball folds in Toronto, like it did in Montreal.
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It would be nice to see MLB have a rule like the NFL has with the "franchise tag" where a team can apply that tag to a free agent to prevent their top player for bolting. Then they must pay the "franchise" player the average salary of the top five players at the position or 120 percent of the player's salary cap number from the previous season, whichever is higher. Yes, this can be costly, but it is only year-by-year, and it is much easier for a team to gather money to pay a player a high one-year deal then it is to make the financial room for a long term, high dollar deal. It sucked that KC had to deal Beltran last year, Oakland lose Giambi a few years ago, etc.
I wish their was better support for the Marlins in Florida, though I don't blame fans after Wayne Huizenga dismantled the team after their first title.
I hoped Baltimore would sign Delgado, which would have been a bright spot in a horrible off-season.