On Tuesday evening, Mark Topkin of the <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays-kevin-kiermaier-agree-to-50-million-extension/2316625" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Time</a>s reported that Rays centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier is closing in on signing a lucrative multi-year extension with the club, worth more than $50-million. Bob Nightengale of USA Today later got a little more specific, <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/841864631828250628" target="_blank">adding via Twitter</a> that the contract would be for $53.5-million over six years &#8212; $2 million more than Andrew McCutchen got from the Pirates when he signed an extension in 2012.
The deal might make for a good case study in some of the most talked-about issues of this most recent off-season &#8212; the way teams have trended away from paying big dollars to one-dimensional power hitters and the impact that newfangled Statcast data has had on front office’s ways of thinking &#8212; but for Blue Jays fans the main point of interest is obvious: what might this mean for their own centre fielder named Kevin?
Does it even mean anything?
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On Tuesday evening, Mark Topkin of the <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays-kevin-kiermaier-agree-to-50-million-extension/2316625" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Time</a>s reported that Rays centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier is closing in on signing a lucrative multi-year extension with the club, worth more than $50-million. Bob Nightengale of USA Today later got a little more specific, <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/841864631828250628" target="_blank">adding via Twitter</a> that the contract would be for $53.5-million over six years -- $2 million more than Andrew McCutchen got from the Pirates when he signed an extension in 2012.

The deal might make for a good case study in some of the most talked-about issues of this most recent off-season -- the way teams have trended away from paying big dollars to one-dimensional power hitters and the impact that newfangled Statcast data has had on front office’s ways of thinking -- but for Blue Jays fans the main point of interest is obvious: what might this mean for their own centre fielder named Kevin?

Does it even mean anything?

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