Freddie Freeman

[starkvegasdawg]

Just saw on the espn ticker where he and the braves have agreed on multi year extension worth around $100,000,000.00. Must be nice.

[msstate7]

Yeah this pleased me. Probably announce extension for uggla tomorrow******

[starkvegasdawg]

Yeah this pleased me. Probably announce extension for uggla tomorrow******
Be good to know we have at least 100 K's a year locked down long term.

[Dawg61]

Freddie is a good player. If the Braves can lock him down for 8 years at around $12mm I say it's a great move for both parties.

[msstate7]

Heyward gets 2 year extension to avoid arbitration

[dawgclub99]

8 years 135 mil. 14-15 mil per year. Thats about right.

[dawgs]

good deal by the braves. locks up freeman well into his free agent years, buys out his arbitration years, and he won't enter the market until he's on the wrong side of 30. this is why baseball is moving away from just being dominated by the teams with the most money without having a salary cap. freeman probably could have played his arbitration years out and signed a bigger deal, but he also could have 2 bad years or not take a step forward or get hurt, so when he has a chance to lock up more than $100M for himself right now, it's a good trade off. some guys are going to always go to free agency and want to be courted, but not a majority of the guys out there. these are the types of deals that have been commonplace among young players for several years now and why teams like the yankees are going to get worse before they get better because to rely on free agency is to rely on players past their primes. you have to grow your own core and hope you can get them to sign a lengthy extension before hitting the free agency market and supplement your roster with vet free agents at team friendly deals, not signing pujols to a 10 year $250M deal or whatever.

[BoomBoom]

8 years 135 mil. 14-15 mil per year. Thats about right.

It's $16.85 per. sounds like too much based on today's salaries, but if salaries take off like expected it should come out fine.

[dawgs]

It's $16.85 per. sounds like too much based on today's salaries, but if salaries take off like expected it should come out fine.

i'm sure they are projecting him to continue to develop a little more power and be a perennial .280-30-100 guys over the life of the contract. in today's MLB, that's pretty damn good production that's locked up until he's 32. so they can let him walk just about the time guys start declining in the post-steroid era.

[Will James]

Yeah most contracts these days will be pretty close to market value with the brains running the show now. Some teams can afford to overpay just because they can afford to overpay.