Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
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Albert Pujols, Mark Teixeira, Derrek Lee. 3 recent examples of how far off a cliff a 1B can fall in his early to mid 30s. Big bodied players don't tend to age super well.

Freddie is signed toa nice contract. As a mid-market team we can't afford to tie up blockbuster money in an aging veteran like the Yankees or Red Sox. We just can't. Freeman will likely still be very good at the end of his contract and he'll go have someone else pay him a lot of money. And I'll be happy for him and sad ot see him go but that's what you deal with as a mid-market team. You have to say goodbye to players you don't want to see go. I didn't want Mac to leave but we couldn't afford to pay him what the Yankees did.
A team like Atlanta, more specifically a team with a disinterested ownership group in a medium-sized market, can't afford to be sentimental.