It will depend on how this FO group evaluates them, but if they are as high on Wetherholt and Doyle as a lot of people in the industry are, they should be approaching them with 8 year deals right before they are called up. Lock them up until they are 30, 31, etc.2ninr wrote: ↑18 Oct 2025 05:58 am I like Winn better than you do. They should extend him. If Wetherholt is all that they won't wait to extend him. They will follow current trends like Mil did with Churio and Kc and Atlanta. We will find out this summer how far away Doyle is. One of the catchers Bernal or Rainiel Rod could hit. Those are the guys I see right now who could be capable of bringing crowds back. Maybe Herrera.
If you can get an 8 year deal done for $70, $80, $90 million, do it. If the player and their agent want $150 million, you likely don't do it. But there is always a price point at which it makes sense from a risk-reward standpoint for the team to get a deal done.
Not every one of such deals will work out as well as the team might want, but then many expensive veteran FA signings don't work out as well as the teams want. And, even if they fail, these relatively little $70, $80, etc. million deals hurt teams a lot less than $150, $200, $250 million FA signings that bomb.