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In interviews with 15 baseball executives at baseball's general manager meetings this week, Jerry Crasnick of ESPN Insider found none who predicted Mr. Free Agent, Carlos Beltran, would receive a contract worth more than seven years at $105 million.
Like Scott Boras, baseball's hierarchy may have a posturing agenda in responding this way. But what the executives are saying seems more realistic to me than Boras' talk of a 10-year, $200-million deal.
This relates to Adrian Beltre, of course, in that Beltre's contract should fall just lower than Beltran's, based on Beltre's more recent ascendance to stardom.
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