2047-2 The Grass IS Greener in Calgary

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2047-2 The Grass IS Greener in Calgary

Post by indiansfan » Sun Jun 13, 2021 6:15 pm

The Grass IS Greener in Calgary

Fans were upset at the end of last season when two of their favorite players filed for free agency. Ace Jefferson Pierce and slugger Francisco Medina, both of whom have spent their entire careers in Calgary, decided to test the market.

“We really tried to sign Lightning to an extension and we were shocked when Francisco opted out of his contract,” said GM Kevin Dickson. “We knew we wanted to go big in free agency and land a top pitcher, but we weren’t looking to swap out Lightning, but give him a cohort.”

The team confirmed that the offer they made to Pierce late in the season was in the neighborhood of $17 million per year. He ended up resigning with the team, after the free agency period started, for $63 million over 4 years. It looks like he got cold feet and signed quickly when he realized that this year wasn’t flush with free agent cash. In the end, he lost about $2 million per year compared to the team’s late season offer.

The team did go big in free agency signing the top available starting picher, Armando Feliciano, to a 5 year, $71 million deal. At $13.5 million for the first 2 years, $14.5 million for the next 2 and $15.5 million for the final year, the deal is pretty team friendly for a player of Feliciano’s talent.

The final piece was getting Medina to sign just before the start of the season. The team has tremendous depth in right field and designated hitter, so Medina became expendable. Still the team assumed he would exercise his $10 million option and stay. When he walked , team’s accountants rejoiced at the cap room it freed up.

Medina started asking teams for $16 million a year, but with a glut of big bats available this year his phone didn’t ring. Long after the team had made plans to fill his spot he lingered in free agency and the Pioneers offered him a $4 million dollar lifeline and he signed for this season. The problem will be finding him enough at bats, but with the price they are paying him the team won’t feel the need to have him in the lineup everyday.
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FL WC 2018, 26-29, 31-32, 35
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