Elias on contract extensions

[eddie83]

30 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

This makes no sense. Of course Elias & the baseball operations team would have some say in who gets extended, and who shouldn't. Rubenstein has control of the payroll budget Elias would need to work within, and final say on the extension and it's value.

I'd assume Elias wouldn't want to extend Gunnar for a price that wouldn't allow for a winning roster to be built around him.

Any GM in baseball would want to build around Gunnar. Payroll comes down to the owner. 
 

Of course a GM would have a say. Young superstars like Gunnar don’t come around that often. 

[interloper]

Frankly we have more important things to worry about. If you can get it done great, but the team needs like 4 major pieces this offseason. 

[DirtyBird]

12 minutes ago, interloper said:

Frankly we have more important things to worry about. If you can get it done great, but the team needs like 4 major pieces this offseason. 

But buying out pre-arbitration year is what gives Gunnar the most incentive  to sign an extension. If it were to get done, it would pretty much need to be this offseason.

[Warehouse]

1 hour ago, DirtyBird said:

But buying out pre-arbitration year is what gives Gunnar the most incentive  to sign an extension. If it were to get done, it would pretty much need to be this offseason.

Boras has been an MLB agent for 41 years and has done exactly 1 pre-arb extension (or “‘snuff contracts” as he calls them) buying out exactly 1 pre-arb year.  Extending Gunnar and Westburg would quadruple the number of pre-arb years his players have been bought out of.

Maybe Boras will have a change of heart? Maybe Gunnar and Westburg will go against his advice despite picking him as their agent?