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By CaptainRedbeard · Posted
Sure, I don’t think Burnes is worth more than about $200M for the rest of his playing career. But based on negotiation dynamics, I expect Boras to start from asking to beat Cole’s deal, then no team will go higher than 7 years, and then he’ll ask to beat Cole’s AAV. Cole signed his deal after 2019 so there’s been some inflation in player salaries and $/WAR since then, and agents (and Boras in particular) care about setting those records. There’s a decent chance no team will be willing to meet that asking price of 7 years & highest AAV, in part because the luxury tax teams like to keep the AAVs lower. Maybe there will be some deferred money. But it only takes one team to meet it, and if Boras doesn’t overplay his hand in the initial days of free agency by asking to beat Cole’s deal in total, I expect one will. -
By Just Regular · Posted
Pedigree, I think GM's will be less willing than with Cole to pay the back years too. Cole is at the top of the Nuke Laloosh blessed pyramid. Burnes (and Snell, and Woodruff, and Bradish) are I think pegged on a different raw talent level. Wheeler/Nola are more like Cole than like Burnes. With very good fortune we'll get a couple Burnes-Yamamoto head to heads late and our guy will be able to tell the market, "I'm clearly better." -
By Moose Milligan · Posted
He is terrible. Maybe Angel Hernandez is worse but Laz Diaz is in the running for the worst umpire in the game. -
I’m learning to take no chances if I’m not 100% sure. I went with Frank Howard in that square (382). I like using former expansion Washington Senators for those Texas squares, as those teams were in DC during my childhood so I remember many obscure players from those teams. -
The main reason I don’t think Burnes’ AAV will top Cole’s is that the winning bidder won’t we getting Burnes’ age 29-30 seasons, which in Cole’s deal, figured to be the most valuable ones. In other words, you could look at Cole’s deal as having really been $46/$46/$46 - $36/$36/$36 - $26/$26/$26 in terms of actual expected value. That averages out to $36 mm AAV, but if you knocked off the age 29/30 seasons, the remainder would be 7/$$234, an AAV of $33.4 mm. So I’ll guess Burnes will get 7 years and something between $234 mm - $258 mm.
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