I’m going to reiterate something up front that I said in the Bullets, but which I think provides really important context for all discussions of what contract Alex Bregman may or may not be able to get in free agency: Alex Bregman’s deal with the Red Sox was not “three years and $120 million, for a $40 million AAV.” It was massively deferred, and the ACTUAL VALUE – as calculated by the union for luxury tax purposes – was three years and just $95 million, for a $31.7 million AAV. That’s a big difference!
Now a year older and heading into his age-32 season, after having a very good year with the Red Sox, but which was dramatically shortened by injury (missed almost 50 games), Bregman hits free agency again after opting out. I keep seeing projections and predictions that have him BLOWING AWAY the three-year, $95 million deal he got last year from the Red Sox, and I really have trouble squaring it. The lack of a Qualifying Offer can explain, oh, $10 to $15 million of the difference, but then again, a year of aging is generally worth a LOT more than that.
Multiple recent reports have Alex Bregman and Scott Boras indeed seeking a contract that would likely crush last year’s offers. Mark Feinsand reports that they’re looking for a five-year deal that tops the $155M Pete Alonso just got from the Orioles. Jeff Passan reports that they’re looking for a six-year deal, and probably won’t move off of that ask (though I’m sure if he got five years and actually did top Alonso, that’d do it).
Moreover, Jared Carrabis, who is pretty plugged into Boston’s baseball group, hears the Diamondbacks could be the team willing to go to six years on Bregman. That could be why all the Diamondbacks chatter started in the first place, though I wonder (1) how much of that is just leverage-taking, and (2) how large the deferrals would be (remember, that’s how the Diamondbacks got Corbin Burnes on a “$210M” deal that was actually worth $194M).
I wonder if the Diamondbacks are at a six-year offer, complete with financial shenanigans, and the whole point of this repeated leaking is to get the Red Sox to at least get up to five or something.
Or, hey, maybe this really is going to play out where Bregman gets his six years and tops that $155 million number, at least nominally. If enough was deferred, you could be talking about something like a six-year, $140 million deal – a $23.3M AAV. Does that sound that unreasonable? I’m not saying it’s a bargain or anything, but it certainly sounds fair, and it actually DOES square with what the offers were last year, then accounting for a year of aging.
You already know the problem as far as the Cubs are concerned. They don’t do big deferrals. Philosophical differences. Accounting practices. Bank issues. Future sale questions. No idea what the actual reason is. They just don’t do it. So you’d have to get Bregman and Boras to accept a deal that looks to a credulous public like it’s “worse” than other offers, even if the present value is actually more. Pretty rare we see that happen these days.
Also, I have a hard time seeing the Cubs go to six years on a 32-year-old free agent anyway, regardless of the structure of the payouts.
Whatever happens, I’m starting to get pretty itchy for it to happen soon so that I can stop pondering all the possibilities.
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