What’s a reasonable outrageous contract for Blake Snell?

While we wait for people who just got back from summer vacations to make up their minds about the franchise’s immediate future, let’s look at one decision the lead baseball exec (whoever that maybe be) will have to care a lot about this offseason: pursuing Blake Snell.

In comments he made to the media yesterday (reported here by Andrew Baggarly and here by Shayna Rubin), President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi said of the matter:

He’s going to go into free agency the same way he did last offseason. He wants to keep an open mind. … I think we’ll be pretty high on his list, but we’re respecting the fact that he’s going to want to play out for agency. I expect us to be part of that, but it…