Then that gets back to why would you pay him over 5 mill.... I'm just trying to get a grasp on how the price for a FA has skyrocketed so suddenly. Is baseball just finally catching up to inflation or something? I'm sure someone's read an article that doesn't cite the TV money as the only factor in all this money being thrown around.
Big TV money, wonky SABER statistics that make even the crappiest player look like a good player with "bad luck" or a secret good player because of his fielding.