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Originally Posted by low
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That takes him all the way to age 40. At first, you scratch your head. Can you imagine how he's going to be in his final few seasons? Compounding the usual doubts along these lines is that Vladdy really is not in the best of shape. That extra weight is going to drag him down over the years.
But one of our "dearly" departed forum members (he was banned for being a loud mouth and abusive, hence the quotes), once made a very good point (which was a frustrating thing about him; he did make some very good points).
He said, look at it this way: The Jays probably know that Vladdy is going to stink toward the end of his contract. No worries, they will carry him. What they will be paying for in the last, say, four years of his contract is really spreading the cost of, say, ten superlative years over a total of 14 years. Teams benefit from deferred salary payments.