Unless you are not a baseball fan or have been living under
a rock, you know that Manny Machado recently inked a contract for 10 years at
30 mil a season. That is a lot of pocket change. Now if you are a Red Sox fan,
you should be shaking in your shoes.
Xander Bogaerts can become a free agent in 2020, and Mookie
Betts is set to become a free agent in 2021, and lest we forget, JD Martinez
can opt out of his contract after year two and three.
That is three of your better players --- not to mention
Chris Sale that needs to get a new contract.
The scary thing is how close the stats are for Xander and Manny.
These are 3 year averages for both players:|
Age
|
G
|
AB
|
R
|
H
|
2b
|
3b
|
hr
|
rbi
|
bb
|
|
|
Machado
|
26
|
158
|
634
|
90
|
180
|
36
|
2
|
36
|
99
|
56
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Xander
|
26
|
147
|
579
|
94
|
165
|
37
|
3
|
18
|
85
|
56
|
|
|
k
|
sb
|
cs
|
avg
|
obp
|
slg
|
|
Machado
|
113
|
8
|
3
|
0.280
|
0.341
|
0.517
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Xander
|
114
|
12
|
2
|
0.290
|
0.352
|
0.453
|
The only category that Machado is clearly better is HR. Everything
else is really close. (especially if you factor in the 165 more at bats Machado
has over the last 3 years)
Let’s not forget as well that Scott Boras represents both Xander
and JD Martinez as well as Jackie Bradley Jr.The next couple of years will be interesting to see what happens withe the Red Sox young core.
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