If you had the Parents in the pool for the first team to award two $ 300 million contracts, go charge.
San Diego and its superstar football field, Fernando Tatis Jr., reached an agreement on a 14-year, $ 340 million contract. It is the third largest contract ever given (behind Mike Trout and Mookie Betts) and the seventh to be given $ 300 million or more, which also includes the guy playing third base alongside Tatis, Manny Machado.
The Yankees have two of the more than $ 300 million players, Gerrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton, but Stanton received his contract from the Marlins. Plus, they’re the Yankees. These are the Fathers, who now earn just under $ 200 million for luxury tax purposes in 2021, who are once again calling:
1. They are there to win it. San Diego traded beginners Yu Darvish, Blake Snell and Joe Musgrove. They now have a playing field (Tatis, Machado, Ha-Seong Kim and Eric Hosmer) with an investment of $ 812 million. The Chargers are gone, leaving the Padres as the only major sports team in San Diego and acting popularly as they try to beat defending champion Dodgers. These are probably the two most talented lists of the majors and they play 19 times in 2021 to decide the NL West, and maybe a lot more.
2. Tatis was not even eligible for refereeing until the next offseason. Last month he turned 22 years old. But he has already established himself as one of the best players in the game (fourth in NL’s MVP vote last year) and most marketable. He would have been a free agent at 25 years old. This allows the Padres to secure a brilliant player on average annually less than George Springer during his 35-year season.
3. Think about how much the Braves saved by signing Ronald Acuna with an eight-year, $ 100 million pact in April 2019 after a season. Now imagine how much Juan Soto will cost the nationals. Soto is also just 22 years old and is also looking for a free agency for 25 year olds. He may be the best batsman of the majors.
4. Tatis received the largest contract in history for a short field. The previous one was $ 252 million for Alex Rodriguez (he also earned $ 275 million as a third baseman). It creates a benchmark for the next class of free agents in the short of Francisco Lindor, Javier Baez, Carlos Correa, Corey Seager and Trevor Story. They are all older than Tatis, but they also have a longer history. Would Lindor, for example, ask the Mets for $ 350 million (or more) ten years to sign before the free agency?
5. Did we mention that San Diego flexes financial power? The Padres are increasing their payroll for the fourth year in a row, doubling it since about 2017. This is at a time when most other clubs are shrinking. The Fathers, under the direction of GM AJ Preller, built a powerful farming system to position themselves to make transactions this off-season, but the best trade of all these Fathers was on June 4, 2016, when they gave James Shields the missing starter in the White Sox for 17-year-old in his first professional ball season.
On Wednesday they guaranteed that now, a 22-year-old, he had $ 340 million.