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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:44 PM, manbearpuig said:

I was thinking around 5-6 years/$150-180m. No idea how close or far that is.

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The more I dive into this, the more I think he's more in the $25-26M range over a 4-6 year deal. So anywhere from 4/100 to 6/156. 

If he wanted to do a 3 year deal I think he could get like 93M on a deal like that. Higher AAV but lower years. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:46 PM, Jack Parkman said:

The more I dive into this, the more I think he's more in the $24-26M range over a 5-6 year deal. So anywhere from 4/96 to 6/156. 

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Yeah and it doesn't seem like he has much of a market. And that's not far off from what they offered Wheeler.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:41 PM, bmags said:

The AAVs were proposed were what he may sign for a shorter year commitment. If Gerrit Cole was a free agent this year and said he'd only sign a 1 or 2 year deal, he'd make more than his 36 million.

The point which everyone else followed was that he views himself as a top 5 pitcher, so you may be able to avoid a long-term commitment if you hit an AAV that puts him there. If you are going 6 years, nobody is saying he'd be getting a greinke deal.

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Well you might be right there, but the question remains is it worth committing close to 25% of payroll to such a player even if it is only three years? Imagine a 2019 performance at 35 mil a year. He'd practically need a security team to travel to the park

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:47 PM, manbearpuig said:

Yeah and it doesn't seem like he has much of a market. And that's not far off from what they offered Wheeler.

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Bauer has a better track record of health than Wheeler did, but Wheeler had a better track record of performance. 

I'd offer him the rumored Wheeler deal(5/125) and see if he bites.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:49 PM, fathom said:

He’s getting 30 a year easily 

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There's a lot of arguments not to do that, namely the QOC during an 11 game stretch this year and the fact that he's only had 1 full season in his career with an ERA under 4.00. 

If he's getting 30 per year I understand the FO staying away. 

I did not realize how average he'd been prior to 2018. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:49 PM, Vulture said:

Well you might be right there, but the question remains is it worth committing close to 25% of payroll to such a player even if it is only three years? Imagine a 2019 performance at 35 mil a year. He'd practically need a security team to travel to the park

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This is a white sox specific view. But his 2019 was still very productive, its a top 30 pitcher due to the innings he's provided.

The benefit to the white sox is their salaries are going to grow with their young players, so a short term deal would take a lot of the % of our salaries, but then we aren't paying an underperforming guy in 4 years when we need to re-sign a tim anderson. 

If it's a short term deal, I don't think sox would even struggle to trade him at 2019 value if it isn't working out.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:46 PM, Jack Parkman said:

The more I dive into this, the more I think he's more in the $25-26M range over a 4-6 year deal. So anywhere from 4/100 to 6/156. 

If he wanted to do a 3 year deal I think he could get like 93M on a deal like that. Higher AAV but lower years. 

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$25 M per year for 5 years is starting to look like the number.  Much better than trading the future IMO.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 9:59 PM, fathom said:

Keep dreaming

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If you're correct, then I completely understand the FO staying away. In that case, it sucks. 

3 years ago, Yu Darvish got 6/126 in a non-pandemic financial climate and he had been a much better pitcher over the course of his career than Bauer. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:00 PM, Jack Parkman said:

If you're correct, then I completely understand the FO staying away. In that case, it sucks. 

3 years ago, Yu Darvish got 6/126 in a non-pandemic climate and he had been a much better pitcher over the course of his career than Bauer. 

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Yu was coming off the disastrous World Series and had questions about his health due to TJS and Japanese workload. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:03 PM, fathom said:

Yu was coming off the disastrous World Series and had questions about his health due to TJS and Japanese workload. 

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That doesn't change the fact that Bauer doesn't have anywhere close to the track record of even Darvish, let alone other 30M pitchers. 

Bauer had one dominant full season and 11 dominant starts against bad competition. That's worth 30 million dollars? In this financial climate? C'mon Fathom, you're better than that. 

I think Bauer might look at the long term offers and go for the 1 year deal. Then all bets are off. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:07 PM, Jack Parkman said:

That doesn't change the fact that Bauer doesn't have anywhere close to the track record of other 30M pitchers. 

Bauer had one dominant full season and 11 dominant starts against bad competition. That's worth 30 million dollars? In this financial climate? C'mon Fathom, you're better than that. 

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You don’t pay for past performance, you pay for expected production.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:12 PM, Chicago White Sox said:

You don’t pay for past performance, you pay for expected production.

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That's how it's supposed to work, but that's not how it actually works. 

And I look at Bauer and while the stuff is great, am I getting the 2012-2017, and 2019 guy, or am I getting the 2018 and 2020 guy? 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:15 PM, Jack Parkman said:

That's how it's supposed to work, but that's not how it actually works. 

And I look at Bauer and while the stuff is great, am I getting the 2012-2017, and 2019 guy, or am I getting the 2018 and 2020 guy? 

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What do you mean that’s not how it works?

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:16 PM, Chicago White Sox said:

What do you mean that’s not how it works?

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Human nature/psychology says that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. It's hard to get that out of people's heads, despite it not working that way in sports. Everyone knows that in sports you get paid in FA based on your track record and that it's likely to be a negative surplus value. 

The truth is that nobody knows which Bauer they're getting. It's completely up in the air. 

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:15 PM, yesterday333 said:

People are weary of the expected production because of past performance...

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Sure, some people are adjusting their go-forward projections due to past performance, but there will be at least couple teams who feel he’s a 5 to 6 win pitcher over next handful years and that will ultimately set his marker above $30M/year.

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  On 12/4/2020 at 10:18 PM, Jack Parkman said:

Human nature says that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. It's hard to get that out of people's heads. 

The truth is that nobody knows which Bauer they're getting. It's completely up in the air. 

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That’s not how valuation works and baseball is managed by a bunch of Ivy Leaguers and legit data scientists who know how to forecast appropriately.

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