á Sounds like Carl is about to price himself out of Tampa:
Carl Crawford said his chances of staying with the Rays "could go either way" and he's "hoping for the best like always.''
"Right now I really don't know,'' he said after his first workout of the spring. "I wish something good would come out of it. At this point we really haven't done too much of that (negotiating) right now and I don't know when we will.''
Just to clarify, he said "hoping for the best" does mean staying with the Rays. "It does to me, I don't know about other people,'' he joked.
Crawford did say he would prefer to not negotiate during the season, which puts something like a six-week clock on a potential extension with the Rays. If he gets to the end of the season, he is obviously more likely to explore free ...
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