Braves extend Acuña with 8 year deal

striker42 said:
I'll wager the fact that Acuna didn't get a big bonus when he signed contributed to him taking this deal. Before this deal, he had no long term financial security. Someone who gets a $4 million signing bonus can take the risk in hopes of making more in free agency. If injury or ineffectiveness kills their career, they still have that bonus money to fall back on. Acuna didn't have that.

Now he's got a guarantee of life changing money. Not just life changing for him. Life changing for his entire family. No worry about being one bad knee injury from being out of baseball and out of money soon after that.

There's a very, very good chance he's leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table. But in exchange he's eliminated the risk of his career going off track. I have to say I'd probably make the same call.
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Great points. He definitely would've gotten some decent cash through arbitration, but this makes his payday happen a lot sooner.
 
smootness said:
Huh?

That would never happen. No team is going to say, you know that $12 million we're guaranteed to pay you next year that you are under contract to play for? Let's make it $24 million, why not?
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While something like that may not happen they could always add an extension like the Angels did with Trout.
 
smootness said:
Huh?

That would never happen. No team is going to say, you know that $12 million we're guaranteed to pay you next year that you are under contract to play for? Let's make it $24 million, why not?
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see the Kansas City Royals and Salvador Perez
 
This is the new MLB. Players are so afraid of what's happening in FA right now. The owners definitely have control.
 
nsacpi said:
see the Kansas City Royals and Salvador Perez
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Most important thing is that we have control till age 31. Even if he becomes disgruntled you can either trade him or rework things over a short term rework.
 
nsacpi said:
see the Kansas City Royals and Salvador Perez
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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.
 
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.
 
striker42 said:
I'll wager the fact that Acuna didn't get a big bonus when he signed contributed to him taking this deal. Before this deal, he had no long term financial security. Someone who gets a $4 million signing bonus can take the risk in hopes of making more in free agency. If injury or ineffectiveness kills their career, they still have that bonus money to fall back on. Acuna didn't have that.

Now he's got a guarantee of life changing money. Not just life changing for him. Life changing for his entire family. No worry about being one bad knee injury from being out of baseball and out of money soon after that.

There's a very, very good chance he's leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table. But in exchange he's eliminated the risk of his career going off track. I have to say I'd probably make the same call.
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Just don't go back to Venezuela, the president will confiscate it.

And move any family members to the United States.
 
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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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