How though. The only reason those got done is because there were no other reasonable suitors for Strasburg. Not because of resolve on the part of ownership
That first contract was a sort of ridiculous "have your cake and eat it too" player friendly contract. It put all the risks on the Nats with the reward being we get to sign him to an even worse contract if he plays well. We did get a World Series and Strasburg and Boras team controlled guys were a huge part of it. If you take a Boras guy, you just have to accept that you get his team controlled years as an asset and that is it. We probably could have got more for Soto if he didn't have Boras as an agent. It just is what it is.
