Chipper Jones ?@RealCJ10
Funny how every time a Scott Boras client is close to signing, there appears a 'mystery team'! I'd call his bluff and offer 20 mil less.
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Chipper Jones ?@RealCJ10
Funny how every time a Scott Boras client is close to signing, there appears a 'mystery team'! I'd call his bluff and offer 20 mil less.
Of course, the question, however, is if giving Max Scherzer a 7th year is a "good signing". Long term pitcher contracts almost exclusively don't work out.
If I were a GM, instead of giving Scherzer 7 years and 28/year, I'd rather give him 30+ mil per year for 4 or 5 years. It has a much better chance of working out well for your franchise long term, and the player may actually produce that much in the short term.
Signing a pitcher until age 37-38 is much much better than signing a bat until he's 40 in modern MLB. Scherzer might not be at his best throughout the life of the deal, but if he can learn to pitch without K'ing 10+ guys per 9IP as he ages, no reason he couldn't be a Roy Halliday or Hudson type in the last 3 or so years of that deal.
It sounds like the deal is done. Scherzer to the Nats.
11:24 AM
@TylerKepner
Had hunch Scherzer would try for record contract for RHP. He got it from Nationals, and deal sounds like $200M+, with significant deferrals.
Max Scherzer?s deal with the Washington Nationals is reportedly for 7 years, $210M with half of it deferred?that?s $15M for 14 years.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...ments-reaction
Weird contract
Adding scherzer and trading stras or zim is negligible imorovement at best imo. This trade equals buying prospects they get from stras/zim trade to me
Nats are probably planning on TV revenue only going up, and they already have deep pockets. The deal still gives them a little more immediate flexibility with the high likelihood their revenues will go up enough in the next 14 years to make the deferred payments without missing a beat. It's like interest free financing for the nats.
David Cameron @DCameronFG ? 21h 21 hours ago
So basically the Lerners are borrowing Max Scherzer from whoever they sell the Nationals to in the next 10 years.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/max-s...t-210-million/