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Friday, August 13, 2021
The San Francisco Giants and shortstop Brandon Crawford have agreed to a two-year, $32 million contract extension, the team announced Friday.
The extension, which has a base salary of $16 million for each season, runs through the 2023 season.
The 34-year-old Crawford, who was selected to the All-Star Game for a third time this season, has a .296 batting average with 19 home runs, 69 RBIs and a .904 OPS.
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1. Mefisto Posted: August 14, 2021 at 04:28 PM (#6034395)That is the point I would take. Ultimately based upon his performance this year, he's very unlikely to be a below average player (2 war over a full season) for the length of the contract, and if he remotely repeats his current season, he's a bargain, and if he tanks, all you have done is shown to the other players that you are serious about treating the players fairly and trying to compete.
I'm not seeing any way the Giants lose out here, everything they do, regardless of what happens forward can be spinned as a positive.
guy has been a solid if not great player for multiple championship seasons and is killing it this year. fans like him.
from cold hard data, not sure it's justified.
but the players and the fans are real, live people, and they'll all like this. I imagine the Giants have made a profit on Crawford over the years, so he gets a friendly deal that still might work for the home team.
Bret Boone signed for 3/25 in 2001
Mike Lowell signed for 3/37 in 2007
Both had sentimental ties to the organization, and both had been established as good, not great players prior to their big years. The Mariners got two good years out of Boone, while the Sox got and average year out of Lowell. When adjusting for inflation, Crawford's contract looks fairly similar to those two. In fact it's probably better - that third year isn't adding anything of value, and 32 million today is a lot less in baseball numbers than 25 in 2001.
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