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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
because we don’t need more pitching in 2019? Why pay for 3 years because your short on pitching in 2018 when your going nowhere?Maybe stuff was said between Lynn and the Cardinals they can’t take back? Who knows?
30 other teams took a pass on him. Why would it be so surprising that the Cardinals would pass too?
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Because the guy has been a rock-damned-solid #3 pitcher for a long time and is all of 30 years old. Teams are passing on these guys because they fear losing the draft pick, but that creates value for their old teams in the process.
Again, assuming that Lynn would take that deal, Mozeliak could have ended up paying Lynn and DeJong 12.5 million for 2018 and 2019, or he could pay Mikolas and DeJong the same amount.
And think about all of the last "big" Cardinal prospects. Rasmus, Miller, Taveras, Martinez, Reyes. What makes you think that these young pitchers are a sure thing?
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