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Originally Posted by Shogun
Trout could have gotten much more IMO. He sold himself short. Although he will only be 29 by the time this is up, so he will likely get another big contract if he is any good then. I wonder if the contract is heavily incentive laden
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If you do the math, I'm not so sure that he gave up a lot.
I think he gets 60MM in arbitration, then what is his AAV in the first 3 years of FA? 30? That would be 150. Even if its 35, then that means he left a grand total of roughly 20MM on the table in the next 6 years.
In exchange for that 20MM, he buys security in case he declines or gets hurt, and a ton of security in case he gets a career-threatening injury, and he still lands in free agency at the young age of 29.