He breaks his hand, and they're claiming a month? Are they not aware we've seen this movie before? It's the Twins and Buxton. Take whatever length of time a "normal" athlete should take to come back and add 20% if he doesn't have any "setbacks".
For the sake of argument, let's say he sits out only a month with a broken hand, comes back, and doesn't get injured the rest of the season. The max AB's he could end up with this year is about 330 by my calculation. That would be the second highest in his career. Let's call 500 AB's the threshold for a reliable everyday player.
Probably correct, in which I would say too rich for the Twins budget and could not blame them for letting him go.
They can afford to keep him and Berrios if they want to. Who else are they going to spend $ on? Donaldson is gone after 2023. Sano after 2022 (or sooner if they can get anyone to take either of them). Kierloff/Larnach are cheap until 2026 or so.
Joey Votto from the Reds had the same injury, missed 34 days. I'd say 8/1.
Someone likely will, it's just a matter of how big the discount is. I'd offer him 5/$100 with $1m incentives for every 50 plate appearances starting at 350. If he stays healthy, he earns ~$25 million/year. He's a $30 million player when healthy, so you're basically paying for 100 games and if he goes above that, it's a bonus.
I saw the pitch, I wan't boycotting last night.
Maeda's contract is basically half (or more) incentives. There is no way in hell I'm giving Buxton $20mil/year guaranteed. I'd give him $10/year base, and a potential to earn another $10/year on plate appearances, and another $5/year on performance incentives. He stays healthy and plays well, he earns $25/year. Or almost guaranteed to happen- he gets injured, and sits/rehabs for half the season for $10mil.
For sure no one is going to claim that he and/or the Twins are too soft, with this one.
There's no way he's signing for $10 million/year. He will likely would get close to that next year in arbitration.
I'm not saying that's what he'll make; rather what I as a GM or owner would be comfortable paying him (on a medium market team) on an incentive-laden contract. If he can make more than that, he can play (or rather sit on the bench injured) somewhere else.
There's no salary cap and I'm not a Pohlad heir so I don't care if we overpay a bit to keep our best player. Obviously you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere, I just don't think $10 million/year is a reasonable place to draw it. 100 games of Buxton is more valuable than 150 of Josh Donaldson.
150 games from Donaldson? So, we're talking over three seasons? ;-)
Wow, that’s a crazy statistic.
Yeah he's fun to watch and the Mets haven't chocked this season - love seeing the Yankess struggle.
Of all the things wrong with the 21 Twins, Kepler in CF is pretty low on the list. I do wish they'd give Gordon some regular playing time out there though.
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Also keeping Jake Cave for Lamont Wade. This front office has made some disastrous decisions since they got here. Just look at what Kyle Gibson and Lance Lynn are doing since they left the twins. Also Zach Littel with the giants. If they trade Berrios they will not have a single good starter coming into 2022 and I don’t wanna hear about prospects cause they are all injured or will be on major innings limits.
I get rain outs suck. But this was the first of the year and I think that's a tad cynical. And you can exchange the tickets for any future game, so the folks upset about it now being a midweek 7 inning game are silly.