Jaime Jaquez Jr.
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Because Brandon Nimmo has five years and $100 million left on his contract.
And Simeon only has two years.
And I think it's either $40 or $50 million left on that deal.
But if it were only one year with Simeon, you'd be like, okay.
Halfway through the season, you're effectively turning him into a utility infielder.
But he's got a whole other year attached to this.
And this is a team that's built to win now with a possible work stoppage looming.
And so if that guy is hitting seventh or eighth in your lineup every day, and he's not a Major League Baseball player anymore, just in terms of what he can do at the plate,
It's very problematic because you're also balancing breaking in Benj, who we don't know which direction he's going to go.
Like, I hope it works out.
He obviously had an incredible spring training.
We barely even talked about his spring training, you and I. But he played so well.
He hit so well.
He's just going to have ups and downs because he's a rookie.
So it's very risky for a team like this to be trying to navigate a 23-year-old super prospect and a 37-year-old guy who's really on not the back nine, but like the back two.
So I'm really worried about that.
And look, Nimmo was always a productive hitter in New York.
And he's probably going to be one in Texas.
And it's going to be hard to watch when he's hitting 270 with a 350 on base and he hits 25 home runs.
That's going to be hard to accept.