On Tuesday morning, Seattle Mariners top prospect Colt Emerson signed an eight-year contract worth $95 million. It was the largest contract ever for a player with no major league service time.

And while Emerson remains in Triple-A for now, he isn't expected to be there for long.

We were joined on the most recent edition of the 'Refuse to Lose' podcast by ESPN MLB Insider Buster Olney, who talked about the contract and what he found interesting about it.

"Two things that are a little bit interesting about this deal. One, the no trade clause that was in this, that got eyebrows raised around baseball. As one agent said to me, 'that is a hell of a precedent and you need to follow through.'

You know, there's some organizations, and the Braves actually are among these, where they generally speaking, don't give out no-trade clauses. Now you have a guy who hasn't played a day in the big leagues who has that. And so moving forward, the Mariners will have to navigate that in conversations they have with Brian Woo, with Logan Gilbert, and it'll be interesting to see how that comes up.

And this observation has been mentioned to me by a couple of agents. There is a feeling that these teams that are signing their young players to these big deals might be trying to get in the books before a possible salary cap goes in place next spring.

Because the assumption is that if, in fact, that happens, that a lot of the contracts that are on the books are going to be grandfathered in. So if you sign a young player and that deal doesn't necessarily fit under the forthcoming parameters of any salary cap, that it actually benefits to get in on the books.

Because there has to be some sort of "grandfather clause" for teams and deals like what the Dodgers have. There just has to be. Because you can't expect in the first year of a salary cap that the Dodgers are going to spend what the Pirates have.

So teams that get these deals on the books before that next labor agreement might have an advantage."

The collective bargaining agreement runs out on Dec. 1. The expectation is that there will be a lockout, but the hope is that no games will be missed.

The Mariners will continue their season on Friday night against the Angels at 6:38 p.m. PT.

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