Author Topic: Bryce: All things considered, I'd Rather be in Philadelphia  (Read 43397 times)

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I don't like any of those three contracts for various reasons.

--Machado's contract because, well, he's a dirty player and bad role model for younger players and the wrong face for an organization.
--Harper's contract with Philly is a massive overpay. He was worth more to the Nats being a hometown player. The Phils will never take to him like we did. He's just a hired gun and they will turn on him as he ages if not right away.
--Corbin, as you said, is a health concern and is an overpay.

For PR (read business) purposes the Nats played this perfectly. For baseball purposes, it's debatable.

Part of the Corbin overpay was, I'm sure, not wanting to see him sign elsewhere in the NL East.