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Deke
It would be really interesting to see the average price of a starting pitcher year on year and see if somehow you could project the cost of a pitcher, but 3 years from now I can imagine an ace like him would be worth 30 million a year. Then you have to figure 6 years from now and ace will cost even more.
I’m sure teams think about this all the time. When I see a crazy contract I think “It seems high, but 5 years from now, $20 million a year isn’t probably going to seem like a lot of money”.
Cruzanconfusion
Greinke has years at 34.5m, and if you look at recent contracts, premium free agents (top 10-15 players) tend to get a 5% bump, so I wouldn’t think years at 36.25m, if not more, are out of question. Especially if your willing to believe guys like Machado/Harper will be looking for a deal bordering on a AAV 36-40m
davidcoonce74
Yep. I mean, mike trout is on an incredibly team-friendly contract and he’ll be making 30 million dollars a year by the end of it.
Last season fangraphs put the cost of a win at around 7 million dollars. So for a player like Trout, who is a 9-win player perennially, he’s a steal.
jtmorgan
Price just got $31MM a year at the same age Bumgarner will be in 3 years. If Bumgarner is still putting up ace numbers in 3 years you could see that number higher than $35MM a year for 7 years.
Ted
If Bumgarner was a free agent today, the only thing stopping him from making $40MM a year would be the risk of injury. His production is worth budget breaking money to any team, especially the Giants. But, with guaranteed contracts, he won’t get his full worth over a long term. If he hit the market today I could absolutely see 7yr/$250MM in play, slightly front loaded.
crazysull
I just like the picture they picked of him was him batting. When I first saw it I thought it was a picture of Pence and an article about Bumgardner
A'sfaninUK
Must be nice being a big market team and able to sign 3 SPs to huge contracts, even though they are located approx a 20 min drive from a supposedly small market team who aren’t allowed to sign anyone big because they don’t make enough revenue due to a large market team being 20 mins away.
Deke
I think when Oakland gets a new ballpark things will change. It’s just such a crappy park and even when they okay well their draw is terrible.
Oaklands demographics is changing because people can’t afford to live in SF so if they do it right, people will go, sponsors will flow and they will have money to sign big too.
Plus SF have diversified their business. They make money out of all other kinds of businesses. Real Estate being one example.
I do wonder how “poor” small market teams really are but I would love to see the As with more money, more attendance and just less complaining.
McGlynnandjuice
I feel like the As are a much bigger market than a lot of people realize, The ownership just doesn’t let them spend any money. I mean if you look at the teams they put together during the 80s and early 90s, they had their fair share of large contracts. (Canseco, McGwire, Rickey, Eckersley, etc.)
trolofson
They are small market…with the attendance and sponsors and not owning their own stadium they just don’t make as much money as most teams.
However they have more money than they say it’s the owners that won’t allow them to spend any. Beane still just doing all he can with the budget…if he’s at the helm we will compete.
fisher40
The A’s are a small market club always have and always will. They will always be looking up at their neighbors in SF who are obviously a big market club
Deke
I agree SF is a big market club but I’m not convinced that Oakland will never be big market. A lot of people are moving there, it’s going to go through gentrification (not agreeing, just predicting) and a lot of businesses are moving there because it’s cheaper than SF, a crap load of artists have moved and the tech workers are following.
If Oakland do what SF have done and diversify into real estate, they will be a very wealthy team.
I’m not sure they will do that though. They might just get the city to build them a ball park and continue with a slightly better version of what they are today.
jonnyblah
Pay the man.