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Teixeira is a once in a decade player. A gold glove switch hitting middle of the order hitter at the age of 28. $180 million contract isnt out of context for that type of player. Not ofter to players of his caliber combined with his age come along. The Nationals and Orioles were both in on the negotiations and right in range with the Yankees offer, that just shows you how much value he has.
This isnt your typical free agent signing and I would expect anyone to get a deal like this in the near future. The only possibilities I could think of would be Joe Mauer and Grady Sizemore.
We're happy for Tex.
I suppose Jeter's contract, Arod's, Giambi's, Pavanos, Sheffield's, Damon's etc all were fair and balanced as well relative to what theygot out of it (obviously some were - Jeter, etc).
Face it, the market for all level of players keeps getting drivin up by the same teams, and the rest of the MLB continues to fall further behind. When you doget the one odd team making an insane offer it is realistically their only offer they can make like that for 5 years and they do it because they want tocompete at least one time on a player.
But i look at teams like the Twins who for all their faults (and i have many with them) offer their own pitcher Santana $100 mil and it was laughed at by theagents (gee where did he end up?), or the Brewers offering Sabathia around $100 mil (gee where did he end up?) and everyone knew they had no chance, or theIndians even trading Sabathia by the deadline because they knew their money would not be in his ballpark. Yada yada.
No hate on the Yankees, the topic is the system. I fault everyone in it, yes including the owners of certain small market teams.