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ilikebaseball 2
Give Perez a 4 year 26/mil contract, with a 5th year option 15mil or 4mil buy out. Not breaking the bank, giving him some respectful arbitration wages and roughly a QO option value on the contract with a decent buy out. Maybe even promise not to extend a QO when he does leave as a courtesy considering the value they have realized already.
chichitog
He already signed one very team friendly contract. What makes you think he will do it again? One thing is his desire, but another thing is being ignorant of his value in the market. He compares very well with catchers with similar numbers/experience.
ASapsFables
One added note on Carlos Rodon’s potential. I recall a veteran scout commenting last spring that, in his opinion, Rodon’s slider was the best he had ever seen of any pitcher at a comparable point of their careers since Steve Carlton made his MLB debut. He also mentioned that Rodon, similar to Carlton at the time, needed to work on his fastball command while refining and gaining confidence in his change-up to become a truly dominant MLB starting pitcher. Carlton did it and wound up in the HOF.
Hopefully Rodon will follow a similar path.
Priggs89
I think you touched on the biggest part of it – confidence. Not just with his change up though, but with everything.
Rodon struggled a little at the start of the season because he couldn’t consistently hit the strike zone (he still pitched pretty well despite that). I THINK that has something to do with major leaguers not chasing his pitches out of the zone as much as college players would. As the season went on and he gained experience, it looked like he finally started to realize his pitches were good enough to get major leaguers out even when they were in the zone. Once he gained that confidence, I think that helped free him up to just pitch rather than trying to be too fancy with everything. The results of that we’re what you saw at the end of the season.
I’m not saying that he’ll be GREAT like the end of the season last year, but I’m VERY excited to see what he can put together this year. Hopefully he builds on that excellent stretch.
22222pete
Well, if you have a bitter player who realizes he has been had by savvy executives at a tender young age, you might not get as much as you think from the team friendly deal His offensive numbers have slipped over the last several years and not improved as you might have expected at his age. Underpaying your key employees has never been a great tactic to maximizing productivity based on my experience.
jb226
There is nobody in Major League Baseball who has “been had.” They all have agents who not only are there to advise them what their value over a given period may be, but are actually paid based on how much the player gets. Beyond that it’s up to them to decide what they value. The trend in early-career contracts is nothing more than a recognition that it’s hard to turn down a sum of money that immediately puts you in the top 1% of the country, even if you could theoretically hold out for more.
I don’t know what Perez’s specific circumstances were, but he made an informed decision that he would rather take the sure money now. That’s not being “had.”
tigerfan4ever
Anibal Sanchez injured….go figure.
dlevin11
If he wants to finish career in KC he must take another discount