Don’t teams take our injury protection (insurance) on long term contracts?
I could see Miz (with his velocity) being sidelined by an injury at some point, but I think the real risk in a multi-year deal would be if a player ages and starts to faceplant (Yelich)
also, if we continue our track record of trading pitchers a year before FA, we only have Miz for 4 more years following this one.
i still am In favor of buying out the 5 arby years of we can get get 1-2 team options for years 6&7. Security for Miz, extending the window for us.
of course there needs to be mutual interest and there likely isn’t