This may wind up being the best extension in MLB history.
thank you weso1!
jpx7 (04-02-2019)
Now trade him to the angels for pitchers who can’t throw strikes.
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This is the new MLB. Players are so afraid of what's happening in FA right now. The owners definitely have control.
They added additional years, though. Sure, as part of an extension, a player may be able to get a team to increase his current salary as well. But no team is just going to pay more than they agreed with no benefit to themselves.
This does give us a potential opportunity, should Acuna be good enough to warrant it, to push for another extension as he approaches the last 2-3 years of this deal and increase the salary in those final years as well. There would definitely be enough room for that to make sense. But to just start paying him more to defend against him becoming bitter? Never.
"Acuna is getting lucky, just like CJ did when he batted .321 and won a batting title. He is unlikely to get lucky at the MLB level over an extended period of time. He will settle in around .300-.320 just like everyone else, and when he does, he won't be within shouting distance of the 1.000 OPS he is posting in AAA...more like low .700s in 2018." -Enscheff 8/25/17
I would imagine that Acuna’s knee injury last season also played into him being open to signing this deal. Yeah, it was a freak injury and he recovered relatively quickly, but it had to show him how quickly things could potentially go downhill.
jpx7 (04-02-2019)
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Ronald Acuna will still get paid $560,000 this year, so extension is actually a seven-year deal worth $99.944 million. It includes two $17 million club options and a $10 buyout, . Fabulous move by the Atlanta #Braves locking him up through 2030 at a maximum cost of $124 million.
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I am confused. How is two option years at 17 million each plus 100 base equal 124. Isn’t that 134!!
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