Carlos Silva

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Well, we're on the brink of watching Carlos Silva become a very rich man at the hands of Bill Bavasi.  You'd think that if you were making $11-12 million bucks a year, you would be considered "good".  Is

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ung just two years ago.  When healthy, Colon has the ability to dominate and in a market where Carlos Silva might pull down near $50 million dollars, giving Colon a one year deal for $9-10 million bucks is the kind of risk the Mariners should be interested in.  Besides, if he doesn’t strike fear into opposing batters, he will at a minimum strike fear into the guy setting up the buffet table.

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with this largely because of recent rumor that the Seattle Mariners are in serious discussions with Carlos Silva and the clan of Silva representatives who are giggling in the corners of their offices at the thin market for pitching and how it will make them all rich this year.  The thought is the M's have extended an offer of "at least" 4 years, $44 million dollars.

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