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Jesse Tittl
why would Aramis wanna leave Milwaukee it’s in the NL Central which he’s always played in and is indoors in the early part of the season? If I were him I’d wanna stay with the brewers
Vipul Koul 2
Aaramis could continue playing like this and reject his side of option and get a $4 mm buyout and if he gets a qo take it no matter what and get 18-19 mm for the year instead of 14. If I case he doesn’t get qo he can get around 30-45 for 3 years! All if remains healthy for the rest of the year!
tfence
Does he really get the $4M if he doesn’t pick up his part of the option? It just sounds silly to me that he would essentially be buying himself out.
LazerTown
typically yes.
Is essentially a backloading of his deal. He only made $6MM in his first year of the deal.
tfence
I don’t see what the back loading of the fall has to do with the mutual option?
Mark Lonz
the Brewers added guaranteed money to the end of the deal in order to make up for a low salary in 2012 when the brewers needed extra payroll flexibility. The contract was negotiated at once so of course the whole thing is connected. Basically the Brewers promised him 36 million over 3 years and the rest is just distribution.
tfence
Rofll… I know that. Im talking about the mutual option.
LazerTown
I said it before the season. A Beltran type deal wouldn’t surprise me.
Yorkshire
He got 3/36 after a better, more healthy season, better track record, Silver Slugger, and at a younger age.
Not sure how one could think he could get something related to 3/45mil. I understand supply and demand can be different now than 3 years ago, but still I don’t think he is getting 3 years or that high of an average salary.
toddcoffeytime
I definitely see him resigning with the Brewers, possible before the year is over. He will not play in a non-dome stadium and wants to stay in the midwest on a competitive team…The Brewers certainly fit the bill there.
Yorkshire
1.Brewers are not messing around with contracts in a pennant race.
2.Not even sure where the rest even came from, source? I know he does like cold wheather but there are a ton of roofed stadium and a lot in warm climates. Also he has never said he won’t play in cold wheather or the Midwest or be on a competitive team…though with his age I can assume the last one. Really all three of those are preferences. You will still have to make a competitive offer.
That being said I think he resigns with Milwaukee. The Brewers have the money and they both like each other. The Brew Crew also has no incoming 3rd baseman so they really could use him. 2/24 and pray his knees hold up.
toddcoffeytime
Not sure why I needed points 1 and 2 when you also agree that he will resign with the Brewers, or why you assumed I was saying he Brewers would not need to make a competitive offer given their mutual like of one another–but he has played his entire career in the NL central (aka midwest) and when asked about resigning with Milwaukee said,
“I like it here. That’s the reason I came here. No regrets. I’ve had a great three years here. It’s a great place to play baseball. Great stadium; we have a roof and don’t have to worry about conditions. Good team; we just missed the playoffs my first year here, and this year we’re in the pennant race. We have a good team. It was the right choice for myself.”
R.D.
Aramis has always been a talented player and fun to watch on top of that, but I doubt he gets anything more than a 2 year deal. I’d be hesitant to give him that.
I’m impressed he’s hit so well this year, in 360 PAs this year, he’s walked 13 times. That’s almost impressively low, especially considering he had nearly 3x that many in a similar amount of PAs last year.
Now some players get by without patience but if you look back at his numbers, Ramirez’s wrost seasons are pretty strongly tied in to the seasons where he has the weakest plate discipline.
Still, I’d love to see him finish his career healthy as a Brewer, break 400 HRs and 2500 hits, and be a fringe HoF guy. He’s just always been fun to watch.