So you're not trolling...you are truly insane to actually think he is going to finish top 3 in the MVP voting. I'll give you a 5 WAR season...maybe even 6, although that's a HUGE stretch, and that still would have put him only 7th last year in the AL. Judge, Witt, Henderson and even Jose Ramirez aren't going anywhere.
Good luck to him, I love it when players max out the market, they deserve it. My guess is he underperforms and sticks around for the full contract instead of opting out. I don’t know much about his business ventures, but he lived in Texas and made terrible salsa, maybe that $40 million in Boston will make him a better horse trainer than saucier
Bregman wasn't going to Detroit or Toronto. If he was leaving Houston it was for a baseball city. He also didn't want to sign a shorter deal but this one was too good to pass up. As for the Astros - we will have to wait and see. Boston was interested in Arenado - so Bregman to Boston probably improves the chances on Arenado. There are still challenges there, would Arenado finally approve of a deal? From my perspective the Astros are clearly worse than entering last year and if they are serious likely need to make a move. Brown has wanted pitching and there are some decent guys out there. If I were the Cards, I would study the Astros system - offer to eat another couple million a year on Arenado's deal (beyond what they already reported) and get someone or a couple of guys from the Astros system. The Astros have to be somewhat desperate IF they are maximizing 2025.
Not only this, but Christian Walker turns 34 on March 28. I can’t imagine the Astros don’t want to field the strongest team possible within financial reason during the first year of his contract.
Well, I felt all along he would end up with a short term deal with opt outs. What I didn't know is it'd be $40M a year, good lort. More than likely he opts in every year because I see no universe where Bregman out performs this current deal.
The Astros are worth billions of dollars. Jim Crane can afford to pay Alex Bregman anything he wants + 20%. But he *chooses* not to for the express purpose of keeping more money in his pockets... And you think Alex Bregman, who's done more to increase the value of the Astros than Crane ever has or will, is the bad guy here?
No, he shouldn't take $14 million less. He can't survive on $26 million a year. He gawn. Just like Correa.
When, in your professional life, have you taken less salary out of loyalty? Sure, he can live on $26M - but he doesn't exist in your or my economic world. In his world, the Giants pay Matt Chapman, an objectively worse baseball player, ~$25MM a year. Why should Alex Bregman take less? To make YOU happy? And why are we not directing our vitriol at Jim Crane, a literal billionaire who sells you the lie that his spending must have a limit, and then pockets the money while you take his bait and get upset at a player trying to maximize his value? Wake up, man. Alex Bregman is not the bad guy here.
Yeah; this is a great deal for Bregman. If he balls out this year, I think he will opt-out, and if he does, all Boston has to do, *minimum*, is offer him "Astros money" (6/156), and he's essentially received a 7/$196M contract. If he doesn't opt out, he'll pocket $120M and then I don't think it's unreasonable to expect he'll get $37+M for his final contract.
I just think that At 31, Alex has plenty of tread on the tires Fenway is perfect for him. He will get crazy national media attention. He will have a chip on his shoulder unlike any he has had for a few years. We will see what happens.
