The following are last years stats of this years hottest MLB free agent. Now ask yourself, if you were a team owner/manager would you pay $119 million over seven years for this player? If your name is Scott Boras and you represent this player you state this is the STARTING point in negotiations if you plan to sign his client.
Baseball salaries are out of control and it only seems to be getting worse each year.
2004 SEASON STATISTICS
| GM | HR | RBI | R | SB | AVG |
| 159 | 38 | 104 | 121 | 42 | .267 |
*Stats belong to Carlos Beltran
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