The Seattle Mariners (apparently) shocked the baseball world with their massive deal with 2B Robinson Cano. I guess the deal could fall apart... and allegedly it almost did with Jay-Z doing his Jerry Maguire "show me the money" imitation. The reported deal is 10 years $240 million with a full no trade clause.
Let's see what other notable free agent deals have the Seattle Marines made in their history.... Aside from Ichiro Suzuki (kind of a free agent, sort of), I'm drawing a blank. I guess they also had Adrian Beltre and John Olerud (I liked one not the other, guess which is which). They did sign Kevin Mitchell once. Recently, the Mariners have been spurned by the top tier free agents (a good thing since most of them have had a few bad seasons).
I'm not really a fan of this move - I would have preferred Nick Franklin (maybe more on that later)start the year at 2B. Oh well, I guess i'll have to deal with Robinson Cano instead, too bad. That is a lot of money for a lot of years.
However, with contracts like these... it should not be viewed as a sunk cost. There is always a surrender value to these deals (ability to offload player onto some other team, picking up portions of the salary).
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