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Originally Posted by Marcellus
6 years $33.5MM for Piscotty. Not bad really.
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I was hoping for something more along the lines of what Polanco and Herrera signed - 5 years guaranteed with team options for 2 more, giving you 2 FA years in exchange for the guaranteed money.
That said, 6/33.5 is cheap enough that it's fine. Herrera's deal would be 7/$50 and Polanco's deal 7/$60 if both options were picked up. So Piscotty's deal has a little less team upside baked into it than Herrera's but is actually cheaper than Herrera's deal is through the first 6 (Herrera's would be 6/$41). Then again it should be as Herrera's giving up a 2nd year of FA with that 6th year.
Polanco's deal, OTOH, is quite a bit more expensive than Piscotty's. Polanco's is 6/$47.5 if the 7th year wasn't picked up. So Polanco, in exchange for that team option he gave the Pirates in year 7, is getting almost $15 million more than Piscotty in the first 6 years. And Polanco had the same service time when he signed his deal that Piscotty has now.