Manny machado signs 11-year extension with padres

Manny Machado has agreed to a contract that will keep him in San Diego until his age 41 season.
Kyle Ledbetter.
What is your reaction today?
Oh, my goodness.
Wow.
They didn't even make us sweat this time.
Like usually when you have contract negotiations and the first offer is embarrassingly low and there's reports from Bob Knight deal about a potential $40 million a year contract.
You know, they make you sweat it out through the season.
They didn't even make us sweat.
It was like five days contract done.
Woke up Sunday morning and Manny Machado was a padre for the next decade, which now puts the core of Zander Bogart's Fernando Tatis jr.
Manny Machado.
Not quite Yu Darvish, but he's under contract for six more years.
It puts that core in San Diego together for a really long time.
Don't forget about Juan Soto in there as well.
Another guy who signed for a long term contract.
Not yet.
Not yet.
Juan Soto's only under contract for two more seasons.
That's right.
That's right.
But hey, young core, a lot of exciting guys around the diamond.
Manny Machado, how is this contract going to age?
Do you think it will age gracefully?
Is there like a peak window?
Is there a championship window?
Do you think that Padres have to capitalize on here?
I said this when he first signed the contract, and granted I was in high school, so I had not perfected this craft of giving nuanced conversation and debates in sports.
But this one aged perfectly well for me, which is as a Padre fan, if he was in a position to opt out of $30 million a year in five years, because if you remember, the terms of his original contract were five years 140 on the front end and then five years 160 had an opt out.
If he was in a position to opt out of $160 million, it means things went awesome with his first five years of his contract and we can confirm that they did.
He finished second in the MVP last year, third in the MVP in 2020.
He's been legitimately one of the five best hitters in baseball and is going to walk into the Hall of Fame most likely as long as he just puts up decent numbers for four seasons, he'll walk into the Hall of Fame once his career is over.
So as long as he played well, that contract was going to be fine.
And as the contract keeps aging, like from a baseball standpoint, these contracts that age into their thirties have the potential to go really poorly.
Obviously, we can point to the Miguel Cabrera's the Chris Davis is the Robinson Cano's like there's ample reasons to be like giving a person a large contract into their late thirties is problematic.
And as a San Diego fan, I don't care.
Man like Manny Machado is going to be our third baseman for 10 to 15 years.
Like, I'm cool with it.
Even if he starts to go downhill, he's already delivered statistically the greatest career of any San Diego Padres in the last 25 years.
So at that point I'm chill and man, like I'm cool with the contract going south.
I'm cool with him just being our third baseman for 15 years.
It must be nice.
I mean, hell decked out in Giants gear here.
It's nice that you have a franchise is willing to actually spend some money to make a championship window develop.
The Giants refuse to spend money.
The Padres similarly, over the last two years, the highest spending team in the division right now because the Dodgers, they're seemingly content to kind of let their younger guys come out.
They're letting higher priced guys watch some high priced veterans walk.
Now, stalwarts like Justin Turner no longer with the team and now the bringing like a J.D.
Martinez, the Padres.
Like you look at what they're building here and you would say that on paper at this moment, they might be better than the Dodgers.
So you're not going to hear it come out of my mouth.
First and foremost, even though we beat the 111 win Dodgers, which to me felt like winning a championship because that's honestly beating the Dodgers felt just as good as actually winning a championship for San Diego.
At the same time, the Dodgers have kind of warped our perception of what spending is now Granted, with the Bogart's contract and the way that a Musgrove deal is super frontloaded, the Padres do have a larger payroll going into opening day than the Dodgers.
I don't expect that to continue, but it is the case right now.
And the reason the Dodgers have warped our perception is because for about a decade that since the new ownership group took over, the Dodgers have kind of been doing what the Padres have done.
And on a smaller scale with the New York Mets are doing, which, by the way, those are the three teams that you want to be a fan of right now is Dodgers, Padres and New York Mets.
And the reason that's the case is, one, they're not on revenue sharing.
Their you know, their teams are actually in the what we call big markets in terms of spending.
And the teams are actually willing to take losses to put a better product on the field.
And for fans, that's so much better.
I mean, we talked to Bob Knight and Gayle last week.
The Padres are losing 50 to $100 million this year on operating costs.
They are willing to to bleed money into this.
Team in order to try and get over the Dodgers and get a championship team.
And if you want to talk about championship Windows, I don't see a better opportunity than right now for San Diego.
They've already taken out the best Dodger team of the last decade.
Like we talked about, the Dodgers subtracted, Trey Turner subtracted Justin Turner, Cody Bellinger, all these periphery pieces.
Walker Buehler is not expected to come back until late in the season, if at all, from Tommy John.
So I see no better chance than right now for San Diego.
And they're willing to put all the money in the world and money that they don't even have on credit into this baseball team.
And that's the best feeling in the world for a fan.
Well, you mentioned the Mets and Dodgers and the Padres can proudly say they beat both those teams in last year's playoffs.
They're just going to get by the Philadelphia Phillies.
And we know the Phillies spent a little bit money, too, this offseason.
But anyway, guys, we'll leave it up to you in the comments section now.
What do you think of the NL with the Padres locking out Manny Machado for the next 11 years?
How do you think this contract is going to age?
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