Mauer signed to 8 year deal (1 Viewer)

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Good grief, what the hell is Pujols going to command?Is Mauer going to generate $184 million dollars worth of revenue for that franchise? Yikes, at that price I would have raided someone elses minor league cupboard along with that teams major league ready catcher in return (Montero AZ, Soto CHC, Suzuki OAK, etc).

Fangraphs calculates that Mauer has been worth $113 million over his 5.25 major league seasons. It's feasible.

In relation to other MLB ballplayers or in relation to how much revenue he generates for the team?

 

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Good grief, what the hell is Pujols going to command?Is Mauer going to generate $184 million dollars worth of revenue for that franchise? Yikes, at that price I would have raided someone elses minor league cupboard along with that teams major league ready catcher in return (Montero AZ, Soto CHC, Suzuki OAK, etc).

Fangraphs calculates that Mauer has been worth $113 million over his 5.25 major league seasons. It's feasible.

In relation to other MLB ballplayers or in relation to how much revenue he generates for the team?

It's a formula full of assumptions, but they attempt to relate value based on the relative cost of a win on the free agent market. Then once you calculate the number of wins a player is worth, it's an easy calculation to determine their value.In general, it shows that the very best players are very underpaid and, of course, solid young players under team control are criminally underpaid.

 

[Finless]

I understand the need to do this deal, but ultimately this will prove more of an albatross akin to the Rockies with Helton in the out years. Mauer's offensive numbers are astounding, for a catcher. But he's going to have to move to 1B/DH to prolong his career sooner rather than later and I'm not sure the power spike last year is to be believed. If he doesn't sustain that power, the Twins are overpaying (not now, but in the back half of that deal) for a corner infielder.

And only because there's no great posting icon. Can anyone point me to any 8 year, $180+ million dollar contract where in year six, everyone agrees it was a great deal because the dude would be worth $40 per on the open market? Even if you can find one or two, they're far outweighed by the Kevin Brown, Todd Helton, Barry Zito, Vernon Wells, Alfonso Soriano, Eric Chavez, etc albatrosses.

How many 8 yr, $180m deals have actually been signed?

Closest I can think of was Manny Ramirez. I think overall it was well worth the coin.