Has Blake Snell been worth the money?

Has Blake Snell been worth the money?

the 5-year, $50 million extension given to Blake Snell by the Tampa Bay Rays. After winning the 2018 SI Young, Blake Snell received this $50 million extension that bought out some of his arbitration years and two of his free agent years. Snell was absolutely dominant in the 2020 postseason for the Rays. Except the only thing we really remember is him getting lifted prematurely in game six in the sixth inning. That became the lasting image of Blake Snell on the Rays. While Snell’s two seasons that followed his Sai Young were nothing compared to 2018, they were still quality starter seasons that I think the Rays were happy with. Except as soon as the money hiked up in this extension, the Rays traded him immediately. And the package they got back from the Padres’s wasn’t exactly great as the main pieces Luis Patinho and Francisco Mahia never really panned out for them. And of course, Snell would go on to win yet another Sai Young in 2023 with the Padres’s in the final year of this contract. His contract could have been in the top two tiers, but I think I’m going to put it in a complicated legacy because the way Snell was remembered with the Rays is not how he’s going to be remembered with the Padres’s or the Dodgers at this point. Not as fondly.