Red Sox Extend Devers for 11 years, $331 Million

[Brewcrew82]

Another 10+ year whopper!

[wiguy94]

That’s a huge deal for a poor defensive 3B. Red Sox better hope that bat ages well. 

[nate82]

Soto and Ohtani are like 12 $600 looks to be on the low end right now. 

[MrTPlush]

I remember many (myself included) wanting to try and get him in a Gomez or Lucroy trade…can’t remember which it was way back when.

The deal is a big one, but a FA contract starting at age 27 is a big deal. 27-32 alone is 60% of the contract. Even if he tails off once he gets to 33+, that’s hard to be sad about if his bat stays as good as it has been.

Way better deal than throwing a huge deal at a 30+ year old. At least you can be pretty confident you get half a decade of really good performance and the rest of it the guy is at least palatable.

[Axman59]

It's nice of the Red Sox to save a little face with this deal. But a team with those resources allowing a home grown Mookie Betts and Xander Boegarts to leave has to be maddening to the fans. I would be enraged.

[Robocaller]

I had heard he was asking for $300M. I guess the Sox said: We're going to give you $331M and you're going to like it!

 

[Robocaller]

2 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

The deal is a big one, but a FA contract starting at age 27 is a big deal. 27-32 alone is 60% of the contract. Even if he tails off once he gets to 33+, that’s hard to be sad about if his bat stays as good as it has been.

next year will be his age 26 season.

 

[JosephC]

When pro-rating the payroll of the shortened 2020 season to a full season, over the last five years the Red Sox opening day payroll has averaged $203,905,850.  The Brewers are at 54% of that number...$110,116,663.  So this would be like the Brewers extending their star player for 11 years at 16.25 million per season.

And people I know wonder why I pretty much stopped watching Brewer games a couple years ago.

[sveumrules]

1 hour ago, JosephC said:

When pro-rating the payroll of the shortened 2020 season to a full season, over the last five years the Red Sox opening day payroll has averaged $203,905,850.  The Brewers are at 54% of that number...$110,116,663.  So this would be like the Brewers extending their star player for 11 years at 16.25 million per season.

And people I know wonder why I pretty much stopped watching Brewer games a couple years ago.

And yet, Milwaukee (395-314) has a better record than Boston (386-322) over the last five years.

[jerichoholicninja]

2 hours ago, sveumrules said:

And yet, Milwaukee (395-314) has a better record than Boston (386-322) over the last five years.

(Ashton Kutcher "burn" gif)

More importantly, who would be the Brewer's Devers comp to extend? None of the pitchers as they'll get a lot more money. I suppose you could say Yelich but he's just one of the many examples that shows why long term mega deals are never worth it no matter what your club's financial situation.

[MrTPlush]

23 hours ago, sveumrules said:

And yet, Milwaukee (395-314) has a better record than Boston (386-322) over the last five years.

They also have a World Series Championship.

Idk, think I would take that over a grand ole 9 more wins. 

[Jake McKibbin]

8 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

They also have a World Series Championship.

Idk, think I would take that over a grand ole 9 more wins. 

Its interesting how recently the Red Sox, whilst never being truly bad, have been either very competitive or very meh on a  year to year basis

Whereas in brewers division, you can be mediocre + and reach the playoffs, that just isnt the case in the AL east at the moment with the star power in that league, probably has something to do with it

But wouldn't we all

[MrTPlush]

5 minutes ago, jakedood said:

Its interesting how recently the Red Sox, whilst never being truly bad, have been either very competitive or very meh on a  year to year basis

Whereas in brewers division, you can be mediocre + and reach the playoffs, that just isnt the case in the AL east at the moment with the star power in that league, probably has something to do with it

But wouldn't we all

Sometimes I wonder how people can even be fans of teams like the Orioles or Blue Jays. I honestly wouldn’t.

The strangest was their 2014 title. 

2013: 93 Losses

2014: 97 Wins

2015 91 Losses

 

[sveumrules]

1 minute ago, MrTPlush said:

They also have a World Series Championship.

Idk, think I would take that over a grand ole 9 more wins. 

Right, the previous front office won the WS in 2018.

They followed that up with a 3rd place in 19 (Dombrowski canned) last place in 20, back to the ALCS in 21 and last place in 22 with what looks like another losing season incoming.

Red Sox, despite their spending, ride the roller coaster more than any team, another example that while payroll raises a team’s ceiling it doesn’t guarantee anything either.

Their other WS in 2013 makes them and HOU the only franchises to win two in the last decade, but they sandwiched that WS with last place finishes in 12 and 14/15.

[sveumrules]

I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that the Brewers winning a World Series in my lifetime is an astronomical long shot.

Barring radical changes to the economic structure of MLB they will never be on an even playing field with teams possessing exponentially larger revenue streams.

Even if somehow they were able to draft, develop and trade even better than they have to end up with the 6th most wins in MLB over the last five years, the playoffs are a crapshoot.

The Astros have won two WS most recently, but one was marred by a cheating scandal. 

The Dodgers have been the most dominant team on every non-WS front for the last decade and could only manage one pandemic trophy.

The Cubs young WS core didn’t turn into a dynasty, they returned to irrelevancy in short order.

The Daddy Warbucks Yankees haven’t even made it to a WS in 13 years.

The Royals made two and won one WS with OMG worst manager in the history of the internet Ned Yost at the helm.

Setting one’s barometer for a successful Brewers season at “win WS” is like setting one’s barometer for a successful life at “win PowerBall”.

The journey is the destination for me.