Thunder Muscle wrote:humanrefutation wrote:If this is really just about money, Mark would be insane to let him walk over a couple million.
But with CC, I always thought it was just as much about him struggling to work with spare parts here in Milwaukee. Going to the Mets would add a ton of pressure, but it would also involve a POBO he knows well and an owner who isn't afraid to spend money.
I definitely feel like its mostly the latter and timing it with knowing Burnes/Woodruff are going to be gone. He maybe wants to keep contending now vs waiting for our next crop.
Not very hard to envision that Stearns knew where he was going some time last season and offered a partnership with unlimited funds to Counsell as manager. Just kind of wish CC wouldn't have pretended it was about anything else, but can't blame him for wanting that shot. But then cool it with the 'my kids' talk.
Bummer we took massive flyers on CC and Stearns and they may very well end up both leaving us but not a lot of loyalty at those positions in the MLB