Harper vs Machado Deals - What Would You Do?

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What would you do?

I'd sign Harper with Harper's contract terms
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19%
I'd sign Harper with Machado's contract terms
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19%
I'd sign Machado with Machado's contract terms
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54%
I'd sign Machado with Harper's contract terms
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8%
 
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Harper vs Machado Deals - What Would You Do?

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Assume you're a GM for a team and that all your players on the 40 man roster are average and no one in the minors is blocking their respective positions.

Which player would you choose? Which deal would you rather have?

Harper's Deal
Machado's Deal
The agreement is for a record $300 million over 10 years, with an opt-out after five years and a partial no-trade clause.
Note: What the cardinals ownership should have done this off-season is outside of the scope of this thread. If you'd like to discuss that topic please create a new thread.
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Machado/Machado

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The Harper deal is better by a long shot. He's got more upside and in the case that he realizes that upside he can't opt out. On top of that you're getting another three years of control for $10M per year which will be almost negligible in a decade.

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Machado easy

He’s the much better overall player and if he starts to struggle def at SS or 3b, he can shift to 1b and most likely be an asset def there

Harper’s on his way to being a DH in a league that doesn’t have one (currently)

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Leroy options for both Machado and Harper?

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cardsfantx wrote:Machado easy

He’s the much better overall player and if he starts to struggle def at SS or 3b, he can shift to 1b and most likely be an asset def there

Harper’s on his way to being a DH in a league that doesn’t have one (currently)
The Harper deal really says alot about the liklihood of the DH coming to the NL.

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I'm tremendously old school.

I don't see the value in signing any player to a contract longer than three years.

Injuries, life events, meteors...
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If I had to choose, probably Machado/Machado. The opt-out is meaningless, because it cones after what should be his best years. Him opting out really saves you from the inevitable post-30 crash.

But in reality I don’t like either signing right now, because I think the next CBA won’t place such an emphasis on veteran deals. If all the cost-controlled rules change (as they should), and teams have to start paying younger players more, there’s going to be less payroll space to absorb these albatross veteran deals.

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I can't fathom giving a player 13 years.

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But in reality I don’t like either signing right now, because I think the next CBA won’t place such an emphasis on veteran deals. If all the cost-controlled rules change (as they should), and teams have to start paying younger players more, there’s going to be less payroll space to absorb these albatross veteran deals.
If only the veterans of the MLBPA cared as much about labor as some of the members of this board do, they could drastically redistribute that 50% of revenue they get all the way down the line into the minor leagues, but essentially they'll have to skip a generation who feels like it's their turn to cash in.

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