They already would have had him for 9 years at that point. There’s a good chance this is the longest deal Yordan will ever have.
I might be making things up that I thought I had seen in the past. But, I thought there is a date in which a player with a qualifying offer no longer garners a compensation pick at some point. Am I wrong on this?
They offered him a fair contract as the market is showing. Boras and he got greedy and he remains unsigned. That's the truth. I love Bregs but if he wanted to be an Astro for life he could have been.
Astros tried to with 156 million for 6 years l. It was a very good offer and looks like perfect market value.
alex-bregman-could-come-to-regret-leaving-astros-low-hanging-fruit-on-the-table Alex Bregman could come to regret leaving Astros low-hanging fruit on the table The free agent third baseman turned down a contract to stay with Houston. As we get closer to the 2025 season, he very well could end up regretting that decision. By Austin Owens | 3:17 PM EST
He'll end up making more money in the end - we heard all the same things with Correa. He may high a high-dollar one-year deal and then just end up getting his big contract next year, but he'll be fine. He'll very likely make more than $156MM over the next 6 years. That said, it may not be at a place he preferred.
Bergman? As in Sam Bergman, our middling pitcher in the late 90s? Or Dave Bergman, our middling first baseman in the late 70s / early 80s?
Correa took a one year deal, suffered more injuries, and still made more in the end - even after losing an even bigger contract due to career-threatening injury risks.
Correa was also much younger and played well enough that one year to get bigger contract offers. Bregman is in his 30s, clearly falling off offensively and possibly defensively too depending on how serious that reoccuring bone spur injury is.
Bone spur surgery isn’t much and he should be fully recovered in time to start the season… and was still playing better 3B defense with the bone spurs (and will continue to play better 3B defense) than any current or future Astro for the next 4-5 years at least. The Astros really did want to keep him for all those reasons and then some and looks like the market agreed with their assessment.
He doesn't appear to be falling off offensively so far. His AVG and SLG were identical to the last few years. The only thing that changed was he stopped walking for some reason (without striking out more) - but a batting eye is not really an age-related thing. It's likely more anamoly than anything else. His overall value over the last several years has been remarkably consistent As a general rule in baseball, if you're willing to take one year contracts, you'll end up making more in the grand scheme of things, though it does come with more risk. Trevor Bauer got kicked out of MLB for unrelated reasons, but he understood that and always wanted short deals as a result. The benefit of a long-term deal is not having to potential/y move every year and having some certainty for future planning, but from a purely $ perspective, short-term deals generally would win out. And if you can get the Correa/Snell/etc 3-yr deal with 1-yr opt out, even better.
Imagine a league where everyone was on a one year deal and they all move around like musical chairs each year. Interesting
