Arden Zwelling
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4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Um, and this is just this is more global.
Like I I understand why a contract like the one Vlad was offered becomes a focal point of like how opinions are formed on that athlete's career, particularly at low points like this, like what Vlad's going through right now when he's you know struggling.
And I understand the Anthony Rendone comparisons and Chris Davis and
My goodness, we did it with Vernon Wells in this market back in the day.
Um, but I think that ultimately as we sit here today, over a year after he was offered and signed that contract.
The the contract value is completely irrelevant to his current production.
Like the contract value was determined at that time many, many months ago.
By what the player believed their value is, what the team believed that player's value is, and then what the market believed that player's value is.
Like that is the like trifecta of how contract values come about.
A player is gonna believe their value is pretty high, a team's gonna believe the value is pretty low, and then a the third party, which is the market, which is 29 other teams in the base.
Baseball will typically help those two sides meet somewhere in the middle by saying, like, here's where the value actually is.
And teams and players use comparables and projections.
Um, they use past production to Vlad's point to help frame those values.
And the team crafts their narrative, and the player crafts their narrative, and that narrative, obviously, based in those empirical numbers.
Is going to be pretty beneficial to their own ends.
Um, and then the market is kind of like the leverage that teams and players both exercise.
Uh what the market will pay you really comes into play here and is like a really big factor in whether or not um
Deals get done.
in exclusive negotiating windows such as when Vlad's did.
Uh and ultimately you you end up meet somewhere in the middle, which is what Vlad and the Blue Jays did.
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