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You can't just compare Joyner in 2018 to what Thomas got in 2017.
Well, I did.
Meaning. It doesn't hold up as a realistic account of contracts. So to put it in different words, while some may say well this or that great player got x amount 5 years ago and no one else should get as much or more unless they're just as great, the market doesn't work that way. So for example JG of SF just got 5.6 M more than Wilson. That's only because JG signed in 2018 and and Wilson in 2015. So my only claim is, the market works this way. We can protest an individual contract all we want, but meanwhile, this is how the market works. Maybe some don't want it to work that way. Okay. But, my only point is, it does.
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But it's not this year for safeties, it would seem. The MLB hit its bump in the road, too. No "market" can keep going up forever, and the concept itself is entirely arbitrary, abstract and groundless to begin with, IMO.
My take is that there are far, far too many variables in play, including the food the agent and GM eats on the day they meet, what part of the day, their amount of sleep, and so on. Too many variables to accurately predict things. I'd bet Eric Reid is thinking about those variables as we speak. Personally, I wish the Rams had signed him and tagged Sammy. But that's all moot, blah blah blah.
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