The Rockies reached a deal with Nolan Arenado on a record setting contract:
NYPost
Nolan Arenado and the Rockies are finalizing an eight-year contract extension worth $260 million, The Post confirmed, which would make the outstanding third baseman the owner of the highest average salary of any position player in baseball at $32.5 million. The deal includes an opt-out after three seasons and a no-trade clause, ESPN reported, and replaces his final, record-setting payday for an arbitration-eligible player of $26 million this season.
Good for Arenado. FanGraphs has him at 16.4 WAR over the last three seasons. While some are seeing this setting the bar for a Bryce Harper signing or a Mookie Betts extension, the real beneficiary might be Anthony Rendon who posted 17.3 WAR over the last three seasons. The Nationals might need to go $320 million for eight years to keep him.
Arenado would have been worth around $305 million as a free agent, at $9 million per WAR. The Rockies did not get that much of a discount.
Looks like the NL West is where the money is. We’ll see if the Giants can counter with a Harper signing.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2IzPsXU
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