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[HalfSmokes]

In the case of the Soto offer, it's way, way more than 10%. A 15 year contract should pay him about $600 million, but even that is actually an underpay because if he took two shorter deals, he'd actually make even more on the next contract which would be scaled to inflation at that point. That's the thing about these long term deals. Inflation absolutely decimates them in the long run especially because inflation in sports contracts is much higher than general inflation. This is money stuff everyone should fundamentally understand. Most people unfortunately don't. But you can bet any agent worth their salt understands this. Soto taking our deal probably costed him between 25-40% of the value he should expect to make over that time.

EDIT: And none of what I just said even factors in how the MLBPA would have reacted to someone taking that deal for "security." Hint: They'd be really, really pissed.

Players take deals for security all the time- just look at the Braves roster or the Cardinals