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<blockquote data-quote="IlliniFan85" data-source="post: 1775690" data-attributes="member: 54181"><p>As much as I hate who we signed in FA as well, this is a two part problem. </p><p></p><p>1) In Nov 2016 we signed Brett Cecil who was doing great with Toronto before coming to us. Well that turned out to be a disaster. Remember we spent $30.5 mil on him for 4 years. And he was never worth $1 mil. In Dec of 2018 we signed Andrew Miller to $20.5 mil contract. Again this is was not a great signing. And the writing was on the wall for this one. However, we overspent and again lost our !!! on the contract. So now management is gun shy. We don't need to sign these expensive type FA's. But we needed those middle type guys. And because of the fact they are gun shy, we ended up with bargain bin options instead. Which we should have signed Luis Garcia, who was great for us last year, but he wanted 2 years, and it seems we wanted to spend that 2nd year on McFarland instead. </p><p></p><p>2) The owner is slightly cheap. He allows us to spend just enough, and usually on a player he really wants. Like you know a 2 year extension on a guy who did not need to be extended in Spring Training. And he probably had something to do with Miller. The Cards were infatuated with him for a while, but could never acquire him until it was too late. Similar with Arenado, he wanted him, so we got him, but he also had Mo find a way to get Colorado to pay a lot of that contract. And I have no issues with the Arenado deal. He has been great for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IlliniFan85, post: 1775690, member: 54181"] As much as I hate who we signed in FA as well, this is a two part problem. 1) In Nov 2016 we signed Brett Cecil who was doing great with Toronto before coming to us. Well that turned out to be a disaster. Remember we spent $30.5 mil on him for 4 years. And he was never worth $1 mil. In Dec of 2018 we signed Andrew Miller to $20.5 mil contract. Again this is was not a great signing. And the writing was on the wall for this one. However, we overspent and again lost our !!! on the contract. So now management is gun shy. We don't need to sign these expensive type FA's. But we needed those middle type guys. And because of the fact they are gun shy, we ended up with bargain bin options instead. Which we should have signed Luis Garcia, who was great for us last year, but he wanted 2 years, and it seems we wanted to spend that 2nd year on McFarland instead. 2) The owner is slightly cheap. He allows us to spend just enough, and usually on a player he really wants. Like you know a 2 year extension on a guy who did not need to be extended in Spring Training. And he probably had something to do with Miller. The Cards were infatuated with him for a while, but could never acquire him until it was too late. Similar with Arenado, he wanted him, so we got him, but he also had Mo find a way to get Colorado to pay a lot of that contract. And I have no issues with the Arenado deal. He has been great for us. [/QUOTE]
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