03-14-2023, 03:56 PM
(03-14-2023, 01:46 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: 3) Most people with half a brain got this going into FA. Everyone knew Bates was gone. No surprise there. Most expected Pratt to leave, but he stayed! And most expected Bell to stay, and he left. I don't get how swapping one for the other (and keeping the younger, better olayer at that) makes this such a disaster.
Most people though Pratt was going to leave because he would demand 10 million plus and he wasnt worth that much. Pratt instead signed a fair deal.
Before free agency if you would have said Pratt and Bell would both be looking for close to 7.5 million a year, most people with half a brain would think both would be signed at those numbers. They didnt swap out one for the other, Pratt just signed a fair deal. If Pratt had demanded 10+ million, he would have been gone too.
