When is joe mauer a free agent

Those early career extensions might not be as expensive, but you get far less value out of the investment. LAA was drawing 3. They are down to 3. People paying to specifically watch albert Pujols play likely ended in , dude. In fact your take is the albert Pujols or Chris Davis contract of takes. Neither one of you are close. Chris Davis, anyone? Even Stanton is worse. Yasmani Toman. Yes, embarrassing for everyone commenting above you that they said anyone other than Chris Davis.

Probably not even the worst contract on the team at the time. Morneau didnt really work out either. Sorry Eloy…. They had to sign him to that deal.

They were moving onto a taxpayer funded stadium. Plus, he gave them 7 pretty good years for basically nothing. He fell off a cliff 2 years into the deal due to concussions. You are arguing with me about something I agree with you on. Homegrown boy will sell tons of tickets. But he never had any seasons like Chris Davis has had for the Orioles lol.

And if not for the concussions and knee issues — had he been able to remain a C and not a 1B — he actually would have been an offensive positive throughout even his worst offensive seasons. I think Puljols by far 28M last year, 29M this season, and 30M next year still. I disagree. They spent a lot of money on many FAs that were much worse than Pujols. Josh Hamilton comes to mind. So does CJ Wilson. Pujols is still at least providing some value, even if it is nowhere close to his prime years.

Some as in negative yes by the numbers — If he wasnt Albert Pujols he would have been cut years ago….. I meant to say that the Pujols contract did not prohibit the Angels from spending n big time free agents like Hamilton and Wilson.

Their inability to hit on ANY free agents and their horrible luck with pitching health are much bigger reasons. I dont think theirs been enough talent behind the arms for health to matter tbh…. Josh Hamilton comes to mind as well but off field issues play into that a good bit. Crawford was just straight trash after he left us. Realmuto in Posey territory? Too funny. Decent bat but nothing spectacular.

Decent behind the plate but nothing spectacular. Yeah but realmuto is good now so smart thing 2 do is extend him and go big oooooopsie 2 years from now. Do you see kind of a paradox there? Sure it matter when it comes to his salary. I mean if you are paying him for a 7. Grandal was right there with him. But you pay people based on relative value.

The Phillies will not extend JT. They played him in a career high games last year. The decline will be swift. That Mauer contract is easily one of the worse contracts of all time. They paid him like he was Mike Piazza after only 1 Piazza type of season. They should have waited to see if he could produce another season like that before giving him that type of money. Even if they were worried about him hitting free agency.

The Mauer contract was bad because it hamstrung Minnesota for the next decade. They should have traded him to NY when the Yankees offered 3 top notch prospects for him. As for what sounds to me like a pure homer take on Piazza vs. Well, I think this is not only great news for the Twins, but great news for baseball as well. Over the last couple of seasons, we have seen small to mid-market teams lock up their star players. These signings are good for baseball, especially Mauer's.

I know most New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox fans think it was their right to sign Mauer when he became a free agent at the end of this year, but Mauer belongs in Minnesota. If Mauer, who is a native of St. But even the Yankees would have been hard-pressed to give the year-old catcher what the small-market Minnesota Twins rewarded their native son. Minnesota needed him. He is treated like a God there.

Clearly, he needed them, too, which says a lot about his character and loyalty to a franchise set to open their new ballpark this season. The front office knew not signing him would have been a big blow to their future. And after rewarding pitcher Nick Blackburn and center-fielder Denard Span with multi-year contracts this offseason, they gave their franchise player what he deserved.

He is coming off a year in which he hit.