Ken Rosenthal isn’t the sort to usually make wild guesses. So you have to wonder if there isn’t something to this:
. @Ken_Rosenthal tells @kirkmin that he predicts Ellsbury will go to Seattle for 6-7 years at 21 million per.
— Dennis and Callahan (@DandCShow) October 10, 2013
Obviously Ellsbury would be great for the Mariners. One wonders, though, why they’d be great for him. At least if whatever their offer is isn’t significantly higher from the best offer from an actual contender.
Not that I have any better guesses. After last offseason I don’t think it’s all that easy to predict where free agents are going.