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Offline CoryTheFormerExposFan

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Re: Top priority: catcher
« Reply #50: October 17, 2017, 02:39:32 PM »
It isn't a matter of leaving.  It's that his opt-out is tantamount to free-agency (actually better - he has a guaranteed contract if he opts-in and free agency if he opts-out).  So at that point he is free to negotiate a new contract, if he feels that the current contract doesn't live up to his market value. So rather than "why would he leave" the question would be: why wouldn't he try to negotiate a better contract?  He may well end up here, the point is, the contract really isn't the home discount it was advertised to be.

Absolutely it's tailored to his advantage.  That is how you'll see any big-ticket player's contract work.  They always get more years than the team would want.  I doubt the Angles wanted to be paying Pujols these dollars up in his 40s, but they had to in order to sign him for those last good years he was expected to have.  They get opt-outs so that if their value increases they get even more by opting out, and if they are hurt and their value diminishes they still have the original deal.  Somebody else will give them the deal if your team doesn't.