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True, with Cohen the money doesn’t matter. But given that, why tie up your roster when you can wait and know more. You can be flexible as circumstance allow.

I’ll go with your inflation idea - fair point. Each guy signs a 10 year extension after they’ve show success in their first 3 months: Harvey $10M per for 2013-22, wheeler $10.5M per for 2014-23

DeGrom $11M per year 2015-24

Matz and Syndergaard $11.5M per year 2016-25

Lugo and Gsellman $12M per year 2017-26

Probably no different results for the team from 2013-2019 because they had all the guys under control. I don’t think theyd have been able to trade Harvey in 2018 with $40M+ left on the books, but if it were a Cohen like owner all that time, they’d DFA him and eat it. 2020 might have gone better. We’d have a healthy Wheeler and DeGrom anchoring a rotation with Matz, Lugo and Gsellman. Would we have picked up Porcello and Wacha? Whether or not they had traded for Stroman tge orevioys season (provably not) they’d have had a problem when Syndergaard went down with TJ surgery, they probably would have brought up Peterson. Who after his success over a couple of months that year would now be locked up at about $13M per year until 2030. Might they have made the playoffs with Wheeler added to that team? Probably.

But by 2021 Wheeler there but no Stroman. Matz there, but no Taijuan. Did we ask get Carrasco in the Lindor deal? (Did we even make the deal? Did Cleveland want Gimenez and Rosario with long term contracts in excess of $80M? And then when DeGrom and Peterson go down, bring on Megill and a few months later extend him at $14M per year until 2031 and still need to pick up Rich Hill? I don’t think the season ends any better.

And no way we bring in Scherzer for 2022. And Verlander and Quintana and Senga now. We’d be heading in to 2023 with a rotation of Wheeler, at a great deal, and big question marks with DeGrom, Noah, and Matz, Peterson and MeGill.

And we’d be paying huge money to JD, and Dom, and Conforto. Where’s it end?

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How many seasons would they have had better pitching staffs than what they ended up with? How many World Series would they have won?

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