Fernando Tatis Jr. Contract: Historic Extension Puts MLB Star Among Highest-Paid Players Ever
02/18/21 AT 10:58 AM
Fernando Tatis Jr. has made history with his new contract. The San Diego Padres’ rising star is now one of the richest MLB players of all time with only a limited amount of big-league experience.
Tatis, 22, agreed to a 14-year, $340 million extension, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. It’s the third-largest contract in MLB history. Mike Trout owns the record with a $426.5 million deal, while Mookie Betts is second after inking his $392 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last year.
Both Trout and Betts were 27 years old when they signed their contracts. Trout was well-established as the best player in baseball and had been rewarded with a $144.5 million deal five years earlier. Betts was a five-time All-Star and earned a $20 million salary in the season before landing his massive extension.
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February 7, 2021
Garrett Richards has an uncanny ability to spin a baseball. Per Statcast, the 32-year-old right-hander recently signed to a free-agent contract by the Boston Red Sox was 99th percentile in curveball spin last year, while his four-seam spin ranked in the 97th percentile. Moreover, the most-effective weapon in his arsenal, a 2,746-RPM slider, was topped only by Sergio Romo’s 2,913 RPMs among hurlers who threw the pitch at least 200 times.
Richards’s least-effective offering in 2020 was a two-seamer that’s hard to put a positive spin on. The erstwhile San Diego Padre threw 66 of them, and the ones that were put into play tended to get punished. Opposing hitters whacked them to a tune of a .467 batting average and an .867 slugging percentage. And it was even worse in 2019. While a 28-pitch sample obviously needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt, numbers like .500 and .875 stand out like a sore thumb. I asked Richards about his plans going forward, antici
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We ve arrived at the end of B/R s MLB 25 in 25 rankings!
Over the past few months, we ve tried our hand at predicting who the 25 best players will be at each position in five years, during the 2025 season.
Loyal readers will remember we did something similar in 2015 with our 20 for 20 series.
While I feel I ve grown a good deal as a talent evaluator in those five years, we won t know for sure until five years from now how many hits and how many misses I tallied.
To put a bow on the series, we re combining all the positional rankings into one ranking of the 25 best players in baseball in 2025.
01/20/2021
On Tuesday, the New York Mets fired newly-hired general manager Jared Porter for cause following an ESPN report from Jeff Passan and Mina Kimes Monday night about Porter’s past explicit texts to a female journalist in 2016 while he was working for the Chicago Cubs. That report indicated that Porter sent more than 60 texts to the journalist without a response, including repeated requests to meet him at a hotel and finishing with a photo of an erect penis. And on Tuesday, Mets’ president Sandy Alderson and (new) owner Steve Cohen both “independently decided” (according to Alderson’s remarks in a press conference Tuesday afternoon, as relayed by Ken Davidoff of
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