Meh, it’s really not, though. His highest guaranteed season is at 13M in 2033 after making 11.125M in 2032. Besides that, he never exceeds 5.375M.
For perspective, Yelich has more guaranteed money just the rest of this year and his last two guaranteed years in 2027 and 2028, than Pratt has in his entire contract.
Pratt is fine. He has already been worth 0.5 WAR in less than 3 weeks just on the strength of a glove that is already high end major league caliber,
Pratt has been exactly as advertised to me. I don’t know why anyone thought he was going to come up and rake. He’s 21 and his current prospect profile was one where his glove is clearly far ahead of his bat in development, and his AAA numbers reflected that.
Best case scenario, Pratt has a Turang like development with his bat and those 15M options look like highway robbery by the mid 2030s. Worst case scenario, his bat doesn’t ever come around and in 3-4 years we’re either shopping him or he’s hanging around as more of a utility infielder/late defensive sub.
Either way, it’s not going to have much of an impact on our bottom line.