Trout extended 6/144.5

[pitchcs]

Well, here it is.

[pitchcs]

He's about to score a big ass payday after this one if all goes well.

[Guest]

I feel like he could've gotten more but at least he still hits free agency at a great age.

[davell]

Dave Cameron is pissed.

[imb]

6 years, $144.5 million. Gonna hit the market again at 28.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Dave Cameron is pissed.

 

He's frantically rewriting his $/WAR formulas to prove that it was right all along.

[Guest]

I hope we're handing out 6-year $100M extensions to third year players in a couple years.

[davell]

Dave Cameron is pissed.

 

He's frantically rewriting his $/WAR formulas to prove that it was right all along.

Seriously. Trout just got PAID and is hitting FA at 29. Considering you're basically getting 40, 60, and 80 percent of value in arb, you may as well figure this was based on 30 mill per year. Sorry, but no one is going to give him an extra 10-20 mill per [expletive] year more than anyone else just because WAR says to.

 

At 29? He'll get his 10-12 year deal for over 30 per with ease if he's healthy.

[Derwood]

He's about to score a big ass payday after this one if all goes well.

 

Because $140m isn't a big ass payday?

[Guest]

He's about to score a big ass payday after this one if all goes well.

 

Because $140m isn't a big ass payday?

 

not compared to what he's going to get in free agency if he doesn't have some sort of devastating injury

[Derwood]

IBL

[Guest]

Sharma just indirectly made the best point I've seen for Trout signing now. If he continues to play at an other-worldly pace, he'll have leverage to force LAA to rip up the last couple years of the deal if they want the chance to sign him for his megadeal. Cameron himself pointed out today that big FA deals are never signed with the incumbent team when they reach FA, so they'd need to do something like that in order to keep him. In the meantime, Trout gets all the cost certainty of signing away those years in case of disaster.

 

EDIT: The other reason is that the idea that a team would be willing to pay Trout close to a linear $/WAR amount as a 10 win player is.....untested.

[Cubswin11]

I hope we're handing out 6-year $100M extensions to third year players in a couple years.

[RynoRules]

Sharma just indirectly made the best point I've seen for Trout signing now. If he continues to play at an other-worldly pace, he'll have leverage to force LAA to rip up the last couple years of the deal if they want the chance to sign him for his megadeal. Cameron himself pointed out today that big FA deals are never signed with the incumbent team when they reach FA, so they'd need to do something like that in order to keep him. In the meantime, Trout gets all the cost certainty of signing away those years in case of disaster.

 

EDIT: The other reason is that the idea that a team would be willing to pay Trout close to a linear $/WAR amount as a 10 win player is.....untested.

 

6/360 anyone?

[Guest]

Sigh. That's a great contract.