Addison Russell

[Bertz]

team-friendly extensions for productive young players are almost always a no-brainer

 

i mean fans didn't know he was a wife-beater and his shoulder would fall apart

 

Nah, they're incredibly overrated.

 

On average, fans especially but even teams fall victim to optimism bias when projecting out young players. Athletes fall apart at a way higher rate than we are comfortable baking into our projections. Having them under non-guaranteed team control >>>> owing them guaranteed deals.

 

It depends on your grading criteria. If you're talking about how many of these deals work out for teams versus how many work out for players, I believe it's pretty close to 50/50. If you're looking at raw dollars though, teams come out WAY ahead. One Chris Sale or Evan Longoria deal is probably equivalent to four or five deals going the other way.

 

That being said the crazy deals with like three club options seem to be going extinct, so there's a good chance you are right looking forward.

[CubinNY]

team-friendly extensions for productive young players are almost always a no-brainer

 

i mean fans didn't know he was a wife-beater and his shoulder would fall apart

 

Nah, they're incredibly overrated.

 

On average, fans especially but even teams fall victim to optimism bias when projecting out young players. Athletes fall apart at a way higher rate than we are comfortable baking into our projections. Having them under non-guaranteed team control >>>> owing them guaranteed deals.

 

It depends on your grading criteria. If you're talking about how many of these deals work out for teams versus how many work out for players, I believe it's pretty close to 50/50. If you're looking at raw dollars though, teams come out WAY ahead. One Chris Sale or Evan Longoria deal is probably equivalent to four or five deals going the other way.

The venture capitalist approach.

[biittner77]

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That's pretty good lol.

 

I don't know why Theo felt the need to make such a lengthy statement over non-tendering Addison Russell...

 

So he can make enough money to pay child support?

[CubinNY]

I'm betting Addison finds himself playing baseball in Japan for a few years, at least.

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[UMFan83]

Wow only $50 to get a personalized message from a Mexican League star!

[NOLA]

Interesting choice of words there, Addy.

[d_money]

Wow only $50 to get a personalized message from a Mexican League star!

That’s alotta pesos

[The_Achiever]

Pay with credit card, venmo or of course a sack of nickels...

[CyHawk_Cub]

If he lets me throw $50 worth of coins at him, I'm game.

[jersey cubs fan]

still pissed this dbad ruined my best tweet

[The_Achiever]

still pissed this dbad ruined my best tweet

 

Care to refresh my memory? Was it before or after we found out he was a human paraquat?