Rizzo, Bryant and Baez all missed on this new trend of buying out arb years for big early-career paydays Rizzo did, he didn’t get the mega deal because he was a 1B and had a slow start to his career and had cancer. But he extended for like $70+ mil when he wasn’t really established. He was never getting the Tatis type mega deal. He obviously left money on the table with where his career has gone but think it was a good deal for both parties and it paid off, he has more than enough money for lifetimes and the Cubs got a discount for committing to an unproven guy. Yeah, Rizzo did. Baez didn't really establish himself as someone you knew you'd want to lock up long term until it was kinda too late (in that he went from guy you weren't sure you'd want to extend to superstar when he already had 4ish years under his belt). And Bryant was never going to do that.