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He's going to be declining by the time that team gets good again.

Yankees didn't give him 7 years. Guess they are a small market team too.

I think the Rangers probably were forced to do that. Their team is a ways away and plenty of others in the bidding.

Good news for Parkman he gets others to wallow in his misery.

Haven't we done that many times on here?

No thanks to Rodon

Deadlines are cool. Good things happen when teams have a date they need to do stuff by. Now I'm not sure we do anything by then but I bet this is only the tip of the iceberg for the rest of the league. Should be a fun next few days.

Jesse Crain got a 3 year 13 million dollar deal and his best years were here. If your trying to add to Parkman's argument I don't see how he works. We got all the upside.

Correct. In his case it doesn't mean he wasn't elite. But his peak was Atlanta. Scott Linebrink isn't even the same conversation.

In a different area it happened with trading for Lynn last year. "We need a high in the rotation pitcher bad" to "We gave up what? What the hell is wrong with them". Unless you getting good players for trash there's people upset here always.

Well it's reinforcing Chi Sox's point. He wasn't at his peak then.

Was that in 2004 with San Diego?

and that was not his peak

It's benign according to the article I read. Not an expert in spinal surgery but I'd assume it's risky.

Apparently he found out in 2020 he had a tumor in his spine which was the reason for his switch to a relief role. Less stress on his back.

I thought we were going dumpster diving.

Well that's delusional. No way are they serious about this.

You may get the former in any case.