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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
...until he accepts the qualifying offer and you're on the hook for a guy making like $35M who doesn't figure into your long-term plans. There's a reason why there are way fewer QOs submitted nowadays than there were 20 years ago.
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Huh?
We know this is in the present as Mookie is 28 so the QO is around $18M and is a one year obligation.
If you take the $56M saved on not paying him his absurd requested amount, less the $18 set aside for the QO, that still leaves about $38M to spend before surpassing Mookie's requested AAV.
$38M annually can still get you three good ball players today - should the GM choose to go that route - and the chances of all 3 being busts is negligible at the most.
And you pocket the draft pick.
All instead of one Mookie.
But there is no universe, real, fictional or imagined, in which Mookie Betts should not receive a QO.