Does it occur to you that no one has ever mentioned Pache in the same breath as Albies or Acuna? The Albies and Acuna deals are the perfect examples of why Pache shouldn't accept the type of deal we're discussing. The "flip side" is that there are a *elluva lot more players that don't scare their ceilings - and "earn" their money - than there are that wind up as underpaid as Acuna and Albies hopefully wind up being. A night out with a bunch of buddies their age at the Gold Club and a trip home when they shouldn't have driven turns the Albies and Acuna deals into two of the worst investments the team has made in no time - a Tiger Woods style car crash doesn't get the organization out from under the money it agreed to pay them.
It's all about your personal comfort when it comes to risk levels - it's perfectly reasonable to expect someone from the Dominican Republic to feel like you hadn't 'taken advantage of them" when you gave them $24 million whether they were able to perform or not when they weren't sure they'd ever see $240K in their entire lifetime.
Considering Pache's skillset and what the organization needs, he doesn't have to sniff being the kind of success Albies or Acuna have (so far) for a White-type deal to be a great deal for both the organization AND the player - when you get to the point when both sides stand to "win" as much as they stand to "lose", the deal's pretty fair. If Pache never hits but is an elite defender at a premium defensive position, that money was probably well-spent - if he develops into a hitter like Acuna, he cost himself money. There are just as many "experts" (if not more) that don't think he's ever going to hit than there are that believe in him - if they're right, getting paid $24 million to play defense and hit 9th is pretty good if you're Pache.
