Whoa
Ridiculous. How does the average fan continue to identify with these enormously compensated players and wealthy owners. Baseball was once America’s passion because people played it as youths and closely identified with the players. Suspect MLB will be broke in fifteen years.
Base-a-ball been berry berry goot to may …
Doesn’t matter
Dodgers in 5 games over the Mets and will now sweep the Yankees in 2025
There are limits to what teams can pay. Even the Yankees. Considering what the Yankees are paying certain players (Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gerrit Cole), another contract of comparable size would leave the team hard pressed to fill out the roster with complementary players.
An example of this reality is when Kevin Durant took a pay cut to sign with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. Durant wanted a championship ring more than the money.
Durant got his ring, actually two, and currently has one of the most lucrative contracts in the league. While he remains a freak of a player, his current team, the Phoenix Suns, got tossed out, ignominiously, in the first round of the playoffs last year.
Another aspect of “Moneyball” (or, bottom line management of pro teams) is combining (A) big contracts with select players, with (B) minimum contracts with players without the number of years of experience needed to go free agent, and with (C) mid-size contracts for complementary players.
another “Bobby Bonilla” day participant
BTTT
15 years is absurd...
Sorry, but no left fielder is worth that much money.
Unlike Judge and Cashman, Soto is smart enough to realize that the Yankees will never win a World series while Boone is the manager.
How incredibly dumb...Mets are on the hook for 15 years, and they will be lucky to get 5 good years out of Soto.
These ridiculous salaries are inflationary. Baseball is so not worth it.
Yikes! I am glad my Nats traded him when they could. Although he will be back to persecute us! lol!
As a person who admits to not watching baseball since my kids stopped playing I wonder where does the revenue come from to sustain such contracts. Advertisers and fan attendance?
Not much of a baseball fan anymore, but the Yankees really dodged a bullet with this one. Never sign a pro athlete in his prime to a contract that extends beyond the age of 36.
Ya gotta wonder how much money there is in Baseball…
I guess that gives us a good idea of how much money the teams have. Is one guy worth it? Evidently, or the accountants wouldn’t go along with stuff like this.
These huge long-term contracts usually turn out to be albatrosses for the organization. We shall see.
I better step out of the batter’s box and adjust my cup while I ponder this.