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Originally Posted by butterfly
Who are you talking about? Glasnow? Signed a 5-year deal. Ohtani is the definition of a unicorn. Yamamoto? The process to get these people out of NPB is kind of silly. Soto? Free agent.
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Trout, Betts, Judge, Machado make the top five.
Then you’ve got guys like Harper who signed for 13 years at 26, Stanton for 13 years at 25. Much different than 8 years at 30? Not really.
Cole, Lindor, Turner, Boegarts, Rendon, etc.
The MLB has a whole bunch of guys on 7+ year deals that take them into their late 30s.
Ohtani might be a unicorn but he has the 12th longest contract and of the 11 longer than his, five are going to be older than he’ll be at the end of their respective contracts.