Steve Phillips

Yeah, I don't think they had any chance of doing a long-term deal that would coax him out of this deal.

And the other way to do it would have been to do an inappropriate –

bizarre, outrageous contract on a long-term basis.

I mean, remember, he came out of the season last year when Vladdy signed his contract.

Everybody said, oh, Kyle Tucker's going to get $400 million.

Okay, that's 40 times 10.

He's getting $60 million for four years on the front end of this.

And so when you think about what's the way to maximize your value,

Four years at $240 million.

Now, listen, the present value of it is $57 million because it's sums deferred.

But even that, you know, he would have had to have gotten $450 million even to justify walking away from this short-term deal.

And so I think it made sense for him to do it.

He'll play this out, even though, you know, he's got opt-outs, but he'll play it out.

And then what he'll do is he'll try to do what Kyle Schwarber did at age 32, 33, turned it into a five-year, $150 million deal.

And you tack that on to the 240, and, you know, you're at $390 million.

And nobody was going to $400 million with him.

And so I think it made a lot of sense for him to maximize his value.

It made no sense for the Blue Jays to chase it.

And, you know, the amazing part was, you know, the Mets were in.

I thought they were nuts doing $50 million a year for three years.