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Old 01-18-2005, 05:34 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
Actually id' go with the fact that h'es almost 43 and paying that much for a player of his age and small amount of years available seems to be a bit over the top.

for 22 mill you coudl probably get a decent rotation of guys instead of jsut one.
However, arbitration doesn't work that way. It's basically a process of looking for most similar players and their contracts in the market. For that purpose, you'd probably come up with Randy Johnson. Now you don't really see the Clemens number as outrageous, since it's only as far from the value arbitrators will see as the Astros number.
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