All we’ve really heard to this point when it comes to contract offers and demands is what won’t get a deal done. Players want too much, teams want to pay too little, a stalemate has ensued. Don’t worry, I’m not really here to talk big picture. If it’s a discussion of baseball’s decaying economic system you seek, I exhort you to leave for a while (please come back!) to examine Jeff Passan’s exhaustive examination of the topic.
All I’m trying to do here is determine what kind of figure(s) might actually get a deal done for Yu Darvish and/or Jake Arrieta.