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Golden Tornadoes said:
With the Dodgers signing Blake Snell, does that mean there is one less suitor for Fried?
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Unfortunately there are still several teams pursuing a top-line lefty, and now there is one less of those on the market. My guess is that Snell's deal drove up Fried's asking price. As to durability, Fried is a full year younger than Snell and has been able to make essentially the same number of starts as Snell in the past 4 seasons. He won't get Snell's deal due to not having anywhere near the swing and miss skill that Snell has, and also Fried has a QO attached to him. Fried could still go the Snell 2023 route and sign a short-term deal with an opt-out, thus avoiding the QO in the 2nd round of bidding next off-season, but he's gonna get paid quite handsomely.
 
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stinger78 said:
$20.5M is quite handsome. Don't tell me you really want to stay in ATL and turn your nose up at that.
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In context it's not. If you are comparing to society at large, $10M is quite handsome, but I'm guessing that if someone offered him a 5 yr/$50M contract that he and his agent would have trouble ever speaking to that team again.
 
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gtbeak said:
In context it's not. If you are comparing to society at large, $10M is quite handsome, but I'm guessing that if someone offered him a 5 yr/$50M contract that he and his agent would have trouble ever speaking to that team again.
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LOL.
 
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Yanks reportedly make great impression on Fried. Tell me the guy really wanted to stay in ATL. If it works out, Max, please share your diary the first time your forearm tightens, you can’t spin a ball, and they start flying out of the cracker box field up there.
 
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