I don’t particularly like this deal and I don’t agree with some people’s belief these extension usually work out for the team.
Singleton, Kingery, Jimenez, and White are all pre MLB debut contracts that sucked. Luis Robert Jr. also likely to be a bad contract barring a massive year to make $20mil options seem like a good idea. I think that is like half of all pre-MLB debut contracts.
Does Pratt really have the ceiling and skill to be giving this kind of contract to? Idk, I guess we will see how he does at AAA. One of these contract by itself is low impact…put 3+ of these contracts on the books and it isn’t a blip anymore. The more you do the more likely it is that a few are total flops and negate any gain we see from the one player that actually pans out.