The amount of money the Tampa Bay Rays were going to pay their 26 year old southpaw has been a hot button topic around baseball circles.
Some, have defended the Tampa Bay Rays 15 thousand dollar pay raise to the ends of the earth, while others have ripped the Rays to absolute shreds carrying on the narrative of the Rays not keeping stars and being cheap.
I have always fallen right in the middle. Was it a good look to outsiders that you only bump up a CY Young award winners pay five thousand dollars, as ten thousand is the minimum you have to increase players?