They also let their best player leave to avoid paying a luxury tax.
Guy they should have built the team around.
Luxury tax kills your team. Itās smart to let the big money players walk and let other teams pay them and instead find value.. whether that is small money value or big money value, the superstar always gets vastly overpaid in free agency.
Look at the Astros.. they let Springer, Correa, and Cole all walk. They replaced them with young talent and spent money elsewhere and just won the World Series.
Itās about maximizing the value of your roster as a whole. Thatās not to say you never pay a superstar.. but you have to be smart about which guys to pay and which guys to let walk.
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