Let's talk Mookie Betts

[G-Fafif]

Dodgers reportedly signing Mookie Betts looooooong term: 13 years (including this one), $380 mil, per Jeff Passan.

[bmfc1]

There goes the dream of new owner Steve Cohen using his "walking around money" to sign Betts.

[Frayed Knot]

Betts is the same age (within days) as Bryce Harper; both turn 28 this October and both have an MVP under their belts.

Harper owns the longer resume to date (full-timer at 19, Betts not until 22) and therefore some bigger career numbers and certainly more power. But that MVP year is his only one in the Top-10 while

Betts has been better lately, he's on a four year run of 2nd, 6th, 1st, 8th I think he'd be the one I'd pick as the better bet to fill the contract going forward if I had to choose.



This also bucks the trend (small as it may have been) of teams not wanting to commit to players as they approach the big 4-0

Neither figures to be as onerous as the Pujols or Miggy Cabrera deals look now (those both extend into the players' 40s)

but, as Joaquin Andujar could tell you: yaneverno.

[kcmets]

That's a lot of dough and lot of years (I shudder to think how old I'll be in 13 years) and I'm gonna

venture way out on a limb and say that contract is gonna bite the big boo boo.

[Edgy MD]

Hopefully, the Harper one will bite harder for longer.