I wanted to give you all a heads up that I will be traveling to India on business from Sunday Jan 29 through Sat Feb 11. I should have internet access throughout my trip, but wanted to let you know that there may be times when that is more spotty than I would like. I use proxies as much as I can and check in often. Greatly enjoying the draft so far and wanted to let you know about my upcoming travel.
Seventy one players signed so far at an average salary of $3,141,500 for an average contract length of 2.57 years. That compares to an average salary of $2.9 mil for an average of 2.3 years last year. Inflation, in both average salary and average contract length, seems to be the theme of this draft. The other theme are goofy bids, and the winner of the goofy bid category is chilliards with multiple contracts at odd dollar amounts. His cheekiest bid as $1,234,567 for Justin Turner. Let's hope an arb settlement doesn't come in at a dollar over the cap!
The Cubbies and RF Juan Soto are close to a multi-year contract with rumors reporting an 8 year deal at around $9,000,000 per season."Management,Fans and most of all Soto want this completed as early as possible before the season gets underway.The fans are excited to have Soto,Julio Rodriquez and ALEX VERDUGO in the outfield for the next 3 seasons.