Nothing like being proactive

[Frayed Knot]

It became fashionable a while back for teams to pursue long-term deals even in the pre-arbitration years to those players had shown a good start to their careers.

Well Tampa Bay has decided to lock up one of their recent top draft picks - 3B Evan Longoria - to a 6-year deal with options for several more after playing just 6 days in the majors

Nice work if you can get it

[Guest attgig]

with 3 option years...

[Guest Triple Dee]

I'm happy to see the Rays showing ambition (albeit in a extreme way), and with a new ballpark coming soon, it means they won't be trading Kazmir anytime soon.

Can you think of anything worse than seeing Kazmir wearing MFY pinstripes?

[Theoldmole]

Perhaps they're desperate housewives?

[Guest Grote15]

Nice to see the Rays step up...Lotta those style contracts out Wright..Reyes..Sizemore..Cano, Mauer..etc.

The MFY's look like 1989..maybe Evan, B.J. Upton, Shields, Kazmir, etc can win the East while were alive

[nymr83]

Grote15 wrote: Nice to see the Rays step up...Lotta those style contracts out Wright..Reyes..Sizemore..Cano, Mauer..etc.

the longoria contract is nothing like those, those players all proved that they were major leaguers before they got deals (maybe not cano, i dont remember when they signed him) longoria has yet to prove anything, this could be another Drew Henson contract.