The general feeling that Mariner fan's are having toward the potential Carlos Silva signing is the amount of money they are willing to give him. In case you haven't heard the Mariners are close to signing Carlos Silva to a 4 year and at least 44 million deal. Fan's have been grumbling to the front office about why would you give a good #4 starter that much money. My question is why are Fan's worried about the Mariners Payroll?
The Mariners have the 7th highest team payroll in baseball at $ 106,460,833, they are owned by Nintendo and make a ton of money from Japan in marketing so why do fans complain when the Mariners sign players to big contracts. I will admit 44 million for a good #4 starter is overpaying, but in today's pitching market that is the going rate. The Mariners need two starters and even if they do trade for Bedard they still would have had to sign another pitcher as Brandon Morrow would be traded. The Mariners biggest need is pitching and if it takes that much money to acquire a decent starter then so be it.
Who are we to complain about one of the richest franchises in baseball when making any signing. After every signing the Mariners fan's complain about why they are giving so much money to this guy as it will prevent the team from signing anybody else in the future, but this is not true. The Mariners aren't going to be running out of money anytime soon so why complain about it. If the Mariners do end up signing Carlos Silva it will not be the end of the world as the Mariners have plenty of money to go around. I'm asking fan's to stop worrying about the Mariners Payroll and at least be happy the front office is trying to make the team better.
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silva is a better pitcher than kyle lohse so at least they are picking the lesser of two evils.
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