New deal for the Sheriff? Impending Doom?

I read earlier today about how The Dbacks are in contract talks with my favorite player, Mark Reynolds. ESPN's Keith Law says that this is a risk. It could provide Reynolds with some security over multiple years and could provide the team with salary stability and possible salary savings. I would love to see this, but I fear it. Josh Byrnes has had a couple of hits and a couple of misses on his contracts. But his track record for signing pre-arbitration players to multi-year deals through arbitration years is 0 for his last 2 (see Chris Young and Chris Snyder). Webb's deal was good, but is now marred by a serious injury that could change his career. Haren's deal does not apply- it was not to lock him up through his arbitration years but to keep him from becoming a free agent. So...Byrnes has had 2 duds and a big injury in his contracts. We may have the start of a new curse...the Josh Byrnes contract curse for young players.

My point- Reynolds signs a deal, he regresses, or he has a serious injury, and we will have a trend. If he continues to improve and develops into a star, then no more sweating and no more talk of a curse. Let's hope fro the latter