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Originally Posted by butterfly
How is it any different in baseball and why don’t they hand out 7 year contracts to 30-year-olds like candy? Maybe because the dumb ones have been largely purged and they realize how silly it is to handcuff their payroll to replacement level players.
Giving out those contracts means losing, not winning.
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Probably because, instead of signing 30 year olds for 8 years, they sign slightly younger players to significantly longer contracts.
Ohtani’s 10 year contract, for 70 Million dollars, started at 29 and takes him to 39.
The top 5 contracts were signed by players 27, 28, 29, 30, and 30 years old, for 12, 12, 10, 11, and 9 years respectively.
The LA Dodgers signed two of those contracts, by the way. They just won the World Series. They beat the Yankees, who signed another one of those contracts, along with two others in the top 12 (both until they’re 38, and both for over 9 years).
But those managers must be stupid.