THASTUNNA
All Star
as good as Cole is RIGHT NOW, it's really not smart for Houston to lock him in long term. those long term contracts to pitchers who are around 30 years old rarely works out in a teams favor.
mainly however in Houston's current situation they are already so stacked with talent that they're not going to be able to afford every one of them. one or two will be left out. it's a good "problem" to have
all of the homegrown talent are already locked in long term or will be in the near future. guys like Verlander and Greinke are locked in short term (two more years each). it's not smart to lock in a pitcher making $35-40 million annually for 7 years or something crazy like Cole will get.
After ‘21 JV and Grienke will be off the books. That’s 57 million. Correa will be a FA.
If they want to make it work for Cole they gotta back load that contract.
They gotta get rid of Reddikk.
Joe Smith and Will Harris are both FA after this year plus Robbie and Maldy. They got a lot of tough decisions to make.