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4/1/15

FLASH: Mets Extend Juan Lagares


     Per Jim Bowden of ESPN, The Mets and CF Juan Lagares have agreed to a 4 year contract extension worth $23M. The extension also includes a 5th year club option valued at $9.5M or a $500k buyout. The extension is on top of his already agreed upon salary for 2015. Coming into the 2015 season, Lagares has accrued 1 year and 160 days of service time which means he was likely to be a Super 2 arbitration eligible candidate.

     In essence, the club is buying out all 4 years are arbitration eligibility + have the option for his 1st free agent year. Lagares' salary breakdown is below.

2015: $508k
2016: $2.5M
2017: $4.5M
2018: $6.5M
2019: $9.0M + $500k [2020 season buyout] (if exercised)
2020: $9.5M option





(Chris Soto: APRILS FOOLS!!! Oh wait.... the team is actually spending money?? Holy smokes...I love this deal for both sides. Cost control + cost certainty is worth absolute gold for a team that is on the rise and has a large number of young players who are not yet arbitration eligible. Once the Mets traded den Dekker away, there really isn't anyone else who can challenge Lagares at the position. I look forward to seeing Conforto and Nimmo flanking Lagares in the future.)
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3 comments:

  1. Tom BrennanApril 1, 2015 at 10:57 AM

    Great news. $$ for Juan ahead of schedule, while the Mets lock up a possibly great player for cheap.

    Not bad for a guy a lot of bloggers going into 2013 did not want kept on the Mets' 40 man roster.

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  2. AnonymousApril 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM

    Great deal for the Mets. If I were playing a pickup game and choosing sides Lagares would be the first position player on the Mets I'd pick for my team. I'd pick Harvey then Lagares.

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  3. eraffApril 1, 2015 at 4:27 PM

    The moves over the past few days are entirely encouraging--practive and affirmative---this move is forward looking... what a Great Change for The Mets

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