“They paid hit to him homers and draw fans and sell merch.”
In looking at his last year with the Angels he had 497 official at bats, not including 91 walks, had 151 hits, 44 homeruns, and had 95 RBI’s. Workable. But he also had 143 strike outs almost as many as his hits so he was only successful a little over half the time. And as he does not actually play a position except pitch, which is questionable at that level now, I can’t figure out what makes him worth $70M for 10 years. The only thing I can figure is that with prices at the parks the way they are and Chavez ?Ravine selling out all the time anyway, they may do better than break even by buying out his contract in around 5 years. And since he started in the LA basin, he won’t be hard to market. The last one the Dodgers had like this was Valenzuela. And they sold him big to the Mexican market.
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It’s a straight ten-year deal. No buyouts, no opt outs.