You wonder if Ryan Zimmerman's career will parallel Carl Crawford's? Crawford was re-signed once after his first two years, with the team buying out his arb years and picking up options on his first two FA years to cover 2009 and 2010. When the last option expired, he was one of the best players in baseball and essentially priced himself out of the team's budget. Now it may seem like a long shot that the Nats will be one of the best teams in baseball for 2011-13, the last three years of Zimmerman's contract, as the Rays were with Crawford, but Zimmerman will be hitting the market after a recovery (we can hope) and, if you buy WAR, is due for maybe a bigger contract. Do you keep Zimmerman for what you offered Tex or more, or do you do what Texas did with Tex, and pull in an Andrus, a Feliz, and Harrison, and a couple of other pieces?
hopefully not. Crawford is on a good team now, but one that looks to have a cap on how much revenue it can legitimately expect to bring in. The nats shouldn't be in that position, they have a new metro accessible park in a very wealthy region. Their tv deal isn't the best, but it is also far from the worst.
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