That's possible. But I think he and his agent may have failed to take into account how much Craig's signs of decline would affect his market in this day of metrics-driven front offices.
Or to use one of those cute little expressions, they did a bad job 'reading the tea leaves'.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
I say offer it to him again. Use the strategy found on shampoo instructions
Lather:
Bring back Kimbrel at 1 year $17.9mill.
Offer Josh Fields the same money he agreed to in LA ($2.2mill)
Rinse:
DFA Workman (or Thornburg, but I like Workman less)
DFA Leon
That just leaves the final step: Repeat...
Remember when the Barves and Phillies were all over him in the off-season? The Natinals even joined in at some point. Kimbrel gotta be thinking what the heck is going on.
Right now he should consider signing for $10M. The season opens in 2 weeks, he will most definitely will not be ready.
Teams breaking camp, hes still a FA.
Talk about bad advice from your agent.
Hes already 2/3 weeks......maybe even 4 weeks away from being MLB ready (depending on his offseason workouts). No team is paying him HALF of what he was looking for AAV.
He really screwed himself.
Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.
Except that Drew didn’t go unsigned because he was asking for record-setting money for a player at his position. Drew just didn’t stand out over other available options who didn’t have draft pick compensation attached.
Kimbrel (or more accurately, Kimbrel’s agent) completely misread the market for closers this year, and apparently didn’t budge enough from initial demands. Same as Keuchel. Beyond their own obstinance, there is no reason for either pitcher to still be available...
the leprechaun may take a bat to his agent. in which case maybe we see CK in the california penal league?
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