What are the next Latinos to get mega contracts in MLB?
Three Quequeyanos players appear with the greatest possibilities of getting in the future mega contracts valued at $ 300 or more millions.
Trying to guess the future has always been difficult, especially in baseball.
That includes trying to identify players who, after good beginnings, will maintain high production levels until they are close to the Free agency And, therefore, from the great money of the Major Leagues of American baseball (MLB).
After the Dominicans Juan Soto ($ 765 million for 15 years with the New York Mets) and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ($ 500 million for 14 years with the Toront Latin players better positioned to sign the PR (oximos mega contracts?
Let’s start establishing the parameters in 10 years and $ 300 million to consider an agreement as “mega contract” and discarding the players who, for their age or pending commitments, have ceased to be suitable candidates to sign very long contracts.
In MLB there are six active Latin players who are well aimed at their careers to be candidates for the Cooperstown Hall of Fame: Venezuelans José Altuve, the Houston Astros, and Salvador Pérez, of the Kansas City Royals; the Dominicans Manny Machado, of the San Diego Padres, and José Ramírez, of the Cleveland Guardians; Puerto Rican Francisco Lindor, from the New York Mets, and Cuban Aroldis Chapman, from the Boston Red Sox.
None of them fits the equation to search in the future a megantrato.
Kansas City has an option for 2026 about Pérez, who is 35 years old, and Boston extended his control over Chapman, 37, at least until 2027. Machado ($ 350 million for 11 years), Altuve ($ 125 million for 5 years), Lindor ($ 341 million for 10 years) and Ramírez ($ 141 million for 7 years) are signed with their equipment until 40, 39, 37 years, respectively.
Young stars such as Dominicans Fernando Tatis Jr., from San Diego, and Rafael Devers, from the San Francisco Giants, have $ 340 and $ 313 million contracts that will conclude when they have turned 35 and 36 years, respectively, while the of Venezuelan Ronald Acuña Jr. (signed for 8 years and $ 100 million Relatively adequate age (31 years), but with a file of injuries that compromises the length of its next contract.
Dominican Framber Valdez and Venezuelans Ranger Suárez, Gleyber Torres and Eugenio Suárez will be among the main Latin agents of next winter. Milwaukee Breweers simply have to execute an option of $ 8 million in the current Dominican law Freddy Peralta to delay their entrance to the market until 2027, together with the Quequeyano Torpedo Jeremy Peña and the Venezuelan receiver William Contreras.
All of them are in line to accrue great salaries, but not necessarily in pacts of a decade and more than $ 300 million.
The Venezuelan gardener Jackson Chourio, from Milwaukee, is age (21 years old) and the quality to enter any long -term projection, but is tied by a decade in a pact very similar to that signed by Acuña. The Brewers signed Chourio for eight years and $ 82 million, but they hold two options that give him control over the player until 2033.
The Dominican gardener Oneil Cruz, of the Pittsburgh Pirates is an enigmatic case: the once Torpedo has all the tools to head this list, but the reality is that almost five years after his debut he still does not achieve that special season that we have expected since he was in minor leagues. Cruz will have to exploit his talent at the next seasons to place himself in the row of the mega contracts.
That leaves us three Dominicans with genuine potential to, in case of waiting until free agency, aspire to contracts greater than 10 years and/or $ 300 million: gardener Julio Rodríguez, of the Seattle Mariners; The Torpedo Elly de la Cruz, of the Cincinnati Reds, and the antealist Junior Caminero, of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Before the start of the 2022 season, Rodríguez and Seattle agreed a long and tangled extension that guarantees the player $ 120 million until 2029 and could become a global pact of $ 470 million, one of the largest in history, but tied to a series of conditions that leave several options open.
After 2028, sailors can exercise an additional eight or ten years option, depending on the performance of the player in the previous years, but if the club chooses not to do so, then Rodriguez has the power to activate a five -year player option and $ 90 million or become a free agent at the best time of his career.
At 23, De la Cruz has already participated in two games of stars and has 138 stolen bases and 59 home runs. Due to its athletic conditions, talent and strength, De la Cruz is projected to reach 30-30 and threaten 40-40 a couple of times before being eligible for the free agency of the winter of 2029, when he will be 27 years old.
In its first full season in Major Leagues, Caminero (44 homers, 28 doubles, 109 driven and 91 scored) became one of the players 21 years or less, more productive in history. The Quequeyano was the 3B in the headline of the American League and was second in the home run.
Caminero, who will be 22 years and 85 days when the regular series expires on Sunday, accumulates 201 hits, 51 home runs, 38 doubles, 134 promoted and 110 scored in their first 200 games with the Rays.
Most likely, both from La Cruz and Caminero, they will receive long extensions offers that prevent them from reaching free agency in established deadlines, but that does not mean that they will not sign Mega contracts, even if they are conditioned to a series of clauses and options as with Rodriguez.
