Ken Rosenthal reports on the Dexter Fowler deal with the Cardinals:
Source: Fowler deal with #STLCards: Five years, $82.5M, full no-trade.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 9, 2016
The $82.5 million contract seems low to me. I estimate that Fowler should produce about 13 WAR over the next five seasons, which should put his value closer to $104 million. The value of a free-agent WAR is around $8 million this year, but the Cardinals are paying $6.4 million per WAR to Fowler. Could a no-trade clause really be worth $22 million? Maybe there is something else in the deal of value to Fowler.