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During a radio interview yesterday Kyle Lohse talked about how teams having
to forfeit a first-round draft pick to sign him has slowed his free agent
market considerably and Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post Dispatch takes it
one step further by reporting that Lohse has yet to receive a single offer.
Well, except for the qualifying offer he returned down from the Cardinals to
become a free agent in the first place, that is. Lohse could have accepted
that and locked himself into a one-year, $13.3 million deal for 2013, but the
34-year-old right-hander obviously had his sights on a much bigger deal
following back-to-back career-years in which he went 30-11 with a 3.11 ERA in
399 innings.
“It’s not exactly the situation I envisioned, not at all,” Lohse told
Goold. “It hasn’t been exactly a free market because I’m tied to a draft
pick and other guys in my class aren’t. That comes at a price. You can’t
compare this to anything in the past because it hasn’t been like this.”
Goold writes that “Lohse doesn’t doubt a fair contract will arrive, it just
may take an inventive solution to make a fit.” And when he does sign you can
bet it’ll be for significantly less than he would have gotten without being
tied to the draft pick compensation. Lohse revealed yesterday that he hasn’t
talked to the Cardinals in months, so don’t expect a return to St. Louis to
be that “inventive solution.”
具消息 Lohse 到目前還沒有收到任何一隊提出的合約
不過 Lohse仍相信他會得到一份合乎他身價的合約
各球隊都還在觀望??