FG on Fox: Why $300 Million for Giancarlo Stanton Makes Sense
It was an astonishing figure that Ken Rosenthal reported. On some level the figures are always astonishing, but this one was especially so. Allow me to jog your memory:
Would Giancarlo Stanton turn down the biggest contract in professional sports history?
The Miami Marlins apparently intend to find out.
The two sides are discussing a deal that would be for at least 10 years and at least $300 million, according to major-league sources.
There used to be some talk that Clayton Kershaw would become the first $300-million man, and then he signed for about seven-tenths of that. Miguel Cabrera came close, but now it’s Stanton who’s threatening to break through the barrier. It’s astonishing, really, for multiple reasons. There’s the raw amount of money. There’s the team said to be considering the raw amount of money. There’s the player said to be considering the raw amount of money, what with Stanton’s reaction a few years back to the Marlins’ most recent fire sale. The snarky way to explain this is that it would take $300 million for the Marlins to convince anyone to trust them. Why sign with that team if you don’t have to?
But the Marlins have insisted for a long time that they’re committed to keeping Stanton around. Maybe, finally, they’re going to turn over a new leaf. We can’t predict where the Marlins are going to go. We know only that they have some talent now, and that they might soon sign their brightest star to a contract worth almost a third of a billion dollars. That seems like a lot. But, is it crazy, or is it entirely reasonable?
Jeff made Lookout Landing a thing, but he does not still write there about the Mariners. He does write here, sometimes about the Mariners, but usually not.
hopefully he comes back and is not affected at all by the ball to the face.
thats my main concern
Agreed. Many players have been beaned and never been the same again. You cannot down play the psychological impact of that horrendous injury. In a sport where fractions of a second make a difference, you would think the team would wait and find out if he is ok.
Excluding eye damage I’ve not known a hitter that was affected by taking a ball to the face. It is pitchers that may become ineffective after taking one, and at the ML level I am not aware of any except Bryce Flore, who took on much more damage than Stanton and was marginal in the first place.
You know for a fact that Stanton’s eyesight was not affected??
Look at Heyward and David Wright after they got drilled. They both haven’t been the same at the plate.