On Friday, the Athletics of Sacramento and eventually Las Vegas, inked their young shortstop, Jacob Wilson, to a seven-year, $70 million deal that buys the club Wilson\u2019s first two years of free agency and all of his 20\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The Detroit Tigers already did something like this with Colt Keith prior to promoting him to the major leagues before the 2024 season. There\u2019s a fair chance that signing that deal was Keith\u2019s ticket to an Opening Day major league debut rather than the Tigers potentially waiting until sometime in May to save a year of service time and give Keith more Triple-A plate appearances to get ready.<\/p>\n
Of course, Keith signed his deal through 2029 for a very reasonable price, with the Tigers getting club options from 2030-2032. This wasn\u2019t Scott Boras making a deal. Keith\u2019s mother acted as his respresentative, and he was willing to take more guaranteed money over his years of team control rather than expecting to make bank in his arbitration years and then in free agency. From his perspective perhaps, he already has all the money he\u2019s ever going to need if managed well, and now he doesn\u2019t have to deal with the business side at all for years, potentially not until he\u2019s 31 years old.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a decent deal for Keith, and hopefully a nice bargain for the Tigers over the long haul.<\/p>\n
It also brings up the question of which Tigers player you\u2019d currently like to see extended the most? Tarik Skubal ain\u2019t happening so let\u2019s not pain ourselves any longer on that front. Should the Tigers extend Riley Greene? Or would you prefer they try to work out a bigger, but similar deal to Colt Keith\u2019s with Kevin McGonigle or Max Clark?<\/p>\n
Or, perhaps you don\u2019t think extensions for either prospective 2026 rookie are a good idea just yet. Obviously the price matters a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Athletics of Sacramento and eventually Las Vegas, inked their young shortstop, Jacob Wilson, to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,39441,51959,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-549076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroit-tigers-analysis","12":"tag-detroit-tigers-opinions","13":"tag-detroittigers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115995869432341658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}