Who do you want added (inc payroll)?

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(10-24-2024, 11:51 AM)ochocincos Wrote: What kind of mega deal for Alonso?
Something in the ballpark of $150 mill ($30 mill APY for 5 years)?

Right now, no DH or 1B makes quite $30 mill APY aside from Ohtani, who is also getting paid as an elite pitcher.
Closest is Vlad Guerrero Jr. at $28.8 mill APY.
Votto's big contract back in the day was $22.5 mill APY and was (near?) the highest for 1B at the time, IIRC.

Would people be comfortable with Alonso taking up ~25-30% of the team's payroll?

Spotrac has his market value at 6yr/$174m ($29m/yr).

He would probably mash in GABP, but I just don't really trust him to be able to play well into his mid-30s. I think he'd be worth that annual amount over half the length, but he's certainly on the heftier and slow side and I don't know how he'll handle that with aging. He's a career .249 hitter and is hitting .229 over the last two years. 

I need my highly paid superstars to hit for average if they are going to get paid into their mid-30s because once it starts declining (and it always does) it'll still be good versus a guy with a low average to begin with once he declines a bit is quickly below Mendoza.

Likely a moot point anyway because I can't see the Mets not backing up the Brinks truck for him after he hit 4 HRs in the postseason. They'll just eat the money of him possibly being shit for the second half or more of the contract.