Spencer Strider's salary is $710,000 per year, which includes a $0 signing bonus. Contact doesnt increase as bat speed wains, hand eye coordination deteriorates, and eye sight worsens. Betting Picks; . Only if its a Top-2 mustache, and it is. I think its even more encouraging within you're organization to know your going to have that nucleus every year.. If his option is exercised, the deal will be worth $92 million over seven years. If i was om shark tank and im Mark cuban right now im clapping! Jansen and Duvall are gone after this yr. Morton, Odorizzi, Yates, and Rosario are gone after next yr. Ozuna will be gone after 2024. I picked it as a horse race, with the Mets tending to fall apart thanks to an old rotation and an old team, that would have trouble down the stretch. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Spencer Strider - Salary History - The Baseball Cube If you give 7 a six year deal that takes him through his age 35 season. The rule is if a player finishes 2 top in the ROY balloting he is credited with a full year of service time regardless of the number of days he actually spent in the majors. Hes allergic to walks. That wont continue. That means his annual salary isnt even going to be justifiable when factoring in the cost of living! He sought treatment through medication, but wasn't seeing the improvement he wanted. He hasnt even extended Fried yet, and this reeks of him knee-jerking his reaction to Fried probably not wanting to talk about extensions and him wishing he wouldve done something a couple years ago. Strider has two pitches. Site occasionally posts comments multiple times. Career earnings will be less than $20M for his first full 5 seasons in the majors. Think hes still representing himself. Spencer Schwellenbach, RHP 10. He is likely to finish 2nd in NL ROY to teammate Michael Harris II, which means both get credited with a full year of service for 2022 regardless of whether they were brought up late or stayed on the roster all season. Many of the projections I saw had the Braves winning the division. (101-61, 1st place in NL East). He didnt go to the Yankees because he was a Yankee fan. I do think its a little harder in Boston/New York because success there translates to big dollars everywhere. 36. Wonder why they stupid overpay for him? Swanson is not as good as those guys. Im sure it will be reasonably priced. 2 top 5 MVP finishes before his first 2 arb seasons. Dynasty. He was real good but lets not get carried away with how good he is. ATLANTA -- Within a matter of minutes, the Spencer Strider narrative changed from: How effective might he be in the National League Division Series to how effective might he be through at least the 2028 season? It made them woke enough to move the all star game, but now they are ok? Howd that one play out? Even if you assume he will get less than Soto for whatever reason, then $7+mm, $14+mm, $22+mm, and $30+mm is extremely reasonable. From one English major to another, genius! Notice I mentioned that those numbers were for 7 years of Swansons production? Career 89 OPS+ the prior five seasons. Strider was added to the Atlanta active roster on October 1, 2021, and made his main league debut with one inning of relief against the New York Mets. Average MLB salary rose to record $4.22M in '22. Most of his miscalculations are trigger happy overreactions to common slumps and overvaluing prime players, because he doesnt realize the extra value hes trying to quantify is the consistency they bring in being a star player. Hell outspend the Dodgers on infrastructure and payroll on his way to becoming the 3rd superteam in the NL. Updated On January 29, 2023. Not a smart bet. Spencer Strider +1100 Aaron Nola +1200 Max Fried +1200 Zac Gallen +1600 Zack Wheeler +1600 Julio Urias +2000 Joe Musgrove +2000 Brandon Woodruff +2000 Yu Darvish +2200 Logan Webb +3000 Kyle Wright . Generally not a fan of BTVs valuations, and your comment that the site is a general reference for trade values followed by They are off on a lot of things is a solid reason why I believe the site shouldnt be used as a factual source. Hes definitely Super Two. Yeah, then every utility bench player with a heart of gold should make $10-15M a year. Roy would give him a full year of service time but he already has the full year of service time. When multiple players including likely Judge, Turner, and Correa surpass 7 years with a $35 MM AAV will you come back and say you were wrong? Spencer Strider has played for 1 team, the Atlanta Braves. Spencer Strider is one of the best young pitchers in the Atlanta Braves organization. Phillies are in the WS. Its just the law of averages. Right?? Noah Syndergaards arb years: $3M (2018), $6M (2019), $9.7M x 2 (2020 & 2021). I see little comparison between Strider and Harvey. Does he hit enough to play left field? If youre a Tigers fan, you probably should hope Baez opts out after 2023. Thats why you compare first full season and Harvey was a lot better. Nothing disingenuous about that. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Core is in place for about as long as you want it to be. It happens, occasionally. 4th year $30+ MM Braves righty Spencer Strider has been put on the 15-day injured list with a strained oblique muscle. Spencer Strider has a net worth of $1,167,934. If that happens, he will have 2 years and 3 days of service time. Strider will qualify for Super Two. Its still a win for both player and team, but the glut of long-term deals does inflate the Braves luxury ledger more quickly than a year-by-year approach would. This is going to be the Kevin Brown deal that literally changed the market in a day. @ice. Strider retired all three batters he faced Wednesday while throwing his first simulated game of spring training, Justin Toscano of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. I dont really comprehend the LOL. Even if you assume he will make 15% less than Soto and other top players that were Super Two, that means he will make $75-78 million for the one remaining pre-arb season and 4 arbitration seasons. He will fall off before he ever gets those record numbers. That is less than average, but in line with some long term deals for FA. Here it is again, for your convenience. High School: Christian Academy of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN), School: Clemson University (Clemson, SC), Debut: Spencer Strider sets an Atlanta Braves record with 16 Ks in a game Strider burst on the scene this year as he posted a 2.67 ERA with 202 strikeouts over 31 appearances (20 starts), becoming the first Braves rookie in the Modern Era to have a 200-strikeout season. Without me teaching you how trade valuations are correctly built, I cant debate with because I think so, I have to explain how I got that answer. His salary will jump to $20 million in '26 and then rise to $22 million for both of the next two seasons. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. Strider is going to bonuses left and right which wouldve added to his arb numbers if he went that route. Mets 6986: Three days at seasons end and 2.1 innings pitched by Strider in 2021. Its all Monopoly money past a certain point and this core has dynasty potential. Spencer Strider only appeared in one game for the Braves last season and was not very well-known around the league. Just cause they run this site doesnt mean they have some secret gift to know where players will sign and I never had a doubt he was headed there, since he was a Pirate. ~$15M (Arb2) 2023 Pre Arb year $1 million (yes, MLB minimum is $700k) Strider becomes the fourth young Braves star to be extended this season alone, joining first baseman Matt Olson (eight years, $168MM), center fielder Michael Harris II (eight years, $72MM) and star third baseman Austin Riley (ten years, $212MM). Thats 65m, plus his first 3 years. Then blew it against the Braves and then against the Pads. Cole Phillips, RHP 7. If thats true, the Braves would essentially be punting their $20M financial gain on his first FA year and option year. While I did admire Matt Harvey in his early prime he really did a lot of stupid things. Besides, they could just as easily lock up those years of free agency at a somewhat higher but much less risky price by just waiting a year or two to make sure hes for real. He had a 5-2 record with a 4.71 ERA, allowing 53 hits, 38 walks, and 89 strikeouts. Trevor Bauers arb years: $6.5M (2018), $13M (2019), $17.5M (2020) The 2029 option comes with a $5MM buyout, which is factored into the guaranteed portion of the contract. Name a team who hasnt had pitchers whove fallen apart. You cant because thats the nature of pitchingas DTD said above.. Braves obviously feel Striders an outlier in that respect. Props to the AA coaching staff. Matt Harvey had a higher ERA and lower K/9 and higher BB/9 in his first season. It does, however, mean the Braves get an extra draft pick. Signing Strider screwed their budget for no good reason. His love of the New York night life and illegal substances didnt help his career along either. They are off on a lot of things, feel free too look me up, the site owner hates me for calling him out. Baez 14.5 WAR We just cant afford to pay you market price. Harper was a huge part of that. Luckily for the Braves, they have Strider under contract through 2029. Luis Guanipa, OF 12. He has only 1 All-Star appearance, 2 Gold Gloves, and 1 Silver Slugger. Olson, Riley, Harris, and Strider are all reasonable balances between risk and reward for both the players and the team. Doubt the Sox are much happier w/Story, but Red Sox fans would know much more about that than I do. This is the first season that he has looked really good and stayed healthy. Since Strider got a full year already based on service time it has no bearing here. Again, he is NOT a Super Two, and you cant in any way assume that he will continue to remain this good. Now lets say you call Ticketmaster and they tell you that you will get one of the four tickets, but you dont know which one until you get to the ball game. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. For reference, Kris Bryant was a lock to be a Super Two because he finished 2017 with 2 years and 171 days of service time. Who are the Braves going to play at SS the 25% plus of the time Correas on the bench w/his bad back? Extra year for Roy. It is purely a way to get extra money in the hands of 0-3 year service time players who are not arbitration eligible and subject to receiving the league minimum. They tended to evaluate the Mets as having the better team, but not by a lot, but were going (fwiw) with experience and so forth. Top 10 hitter in baseball. Thing is Baez/Story both have been more consistent with their bats (even Baez, lol), while providing defensive value. In your case, the look that you should recognize for all the times you see it with that kind of personality is disgust followed by derisive laughter. 2 things: Spencer Strider is currently the starting pitcher position for the Atlanta Braves in Major League Baseball, the senior baseball league of the United States. Data Provided By What the hell is unexpected reply from the server mean? As the saying goes, a fool and his money will quickly part. The Braves do it again, getting 2 FA years of a superb pitcher (incl an option year, fcol), and they get those years very close to a SPs peak ages. the Commanders released Wentz in a cost-cutting measure that will save Washington $26.17 million against the 2023 salary cap. Good thing you waited until Strider got lit up in playoffs to respond. The 2029 club option gives the Braves control over what wouldve been Striders second free-agent campaign. Its not their young pitching, its pitching in general. If you think he deserves his contract, you are as tone-def as you are capable of catching a pun! 2023 Payroll Totals 2023 Active Competitive Balance Tax Totals Note: Tax figures based on payroll data only. Soto put up an .853 OPS and 149 OPS+. He wasnt going any where for at least five years. He is doing well in his personal life as well. I finally cut the cord and were saving thousands every year. Will make luxury tax teams wary of him. They cant keep getting away with robbery forever. But Swanson is not nearly as good as those guys. Spencer Strider undoubtedly earns a substantial sum of money from his sole career in baseball. Riley is a good deal. They were 6.5 games ahead of the Braves on August 7. Name guys that did as well as Strider. Or theyre being proactive to keep future payroll in check and balanced out so they dont get caught with uncertain arbitration costs in the future. There is nothing historically to say that even if they were absurdly expensive compared to other pitchers that it would even match what he was promised. The Braves arent getting a $100 ticket and hoping for either behind the dugouts or in the suite. Strider and Braves teammate Michael Harris II are very likely to finish first and second in the NL Rookie of the Year voting in either. With pitchers, it seems every one goes down with season ending shoulder, elbow and back injuries. Says who? $1M (2024) Confirmation bias confirms nothing but poor process. He wouldnt get anywhere near the same amount of extra money in bonuses, and thats assuming he remains good enough to get additional bonuses after this year. Look what Gerrit Cole was able to get. In a time in baseball when contact is of the least importance and shifts were used at an all-time high, why players refused to adjust to defensive alignments. $43m for nothing. I agree on Riley, but Harris and Strider seemed to sign for cheap. So yes, the Braves could have waited to see if he will continue to perform at the same level as he did in 2022 and if he does perform they would have paid that price. The lot of before money is hopeful at best. Most annoying 3-2 hitter Ive watched all season. The Yankees seem to be possibly the least fan-friendly franchise in baseball. Not sure what your point is, but throwing 100 mph doesnt mean crap for a number of reasons, one there are guys like Mauricio Cabrera:, Bruce Rondn, Henry Alberto Rodriguez:, Joel Zumaya:, Tayron Guerrero, Bobby Parnell, who have touched 103 mph and none have made anywhere near that money and all had problems turning velocity into results. The braves do like to buy out arbitration years where they can. View a free real draft analysis of a fantasy baseball league featuring 12 teams in a STD format. The idea that getting only modest performance for $20m in the last 3 years of the deal will hurt the Braves much at all, though, doesnt follow. You are comparing Harveys call up as a full season is disingenuous. What exactly do those look like? They even got an opt out in the form of a cheap buyout if he crashes prior to his last year the Braves control. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Because they didnt try to Kris Bryant him it has no bearing on his service time or his Super Two status. They also have a lot of money coming off the books this yr and next with internal options available to replace these players. Thanks. @mets. He touched 101 early in the outing. Going to be stunned if AA downgrades at SS w/their current competitive excellence at all other positions except left field. Top Braves prospects Shea Langeliers, Spencer Strider join Stripers for Good grief. They shouldve gotten at least 3 guaranteed free agent years plus an option year for that kind of heavy payout, and even then its unnecessarily risky for the team compared to other early career extensions. I guess thats why you make comments without referencing who you are talking about or what makes you an expert. In fact, you should not make a purchase without a calculator, a phone call to a certified public accountant, and night courses in math at the local community college. The Mets only have one tool in the toolbox and that tool is green if you know what I mean. Story 16.2 WAR On the other hand, a subscription to Apple TV+ is remarkably cheap, comparatively: $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. He wouldve made around $1M per pre-arbitration year in 23 and 24, anyway. Ok I quickly read up on the bonus pool from the new CBA. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. If Spencer doesnt get any better than he currently is, hes still an ace. Deferred payments and incentive clauses are not included. I know the first few years here are cheap, but still . Braves fans will be the first ones screaming when all these long term signing dont work out and the team starts getting hamstrung. And him being top 2 in the ROY balloting has no bearing on his service time because the Braves never tried to manipulate it. Which is probably why they didnt. If they dont re-sign Swanson, theyre making a serious mistake. Login Here. His salary will jump to $20 million in '26 and then rise to $22 million for both of the next two seasons. Plenty that rep for other teams. However, he already has slightly more than a full year of service time. They signed him to a lucrative six-year, $75 million extension on October 10. So by that logic, if you are making $500K/year, you would buy a Snickers bar for $10 because you have lots of money? October 1, 2021 But they know that by having a huge core of players, their total risk will decrease and one or two could be replaced with gem finds at trade deadlines like AA is known for. And like I said before, he wouldnt even qualify for the ERA title. They lost Acuna and won a WS. Thats not how you run a billion dollar company, its just not and thats exactly what they did. No I said youre disingenuous because youre trying to use the 2 1/3 ML inning pitched by Strider as a full season comp to Harvey. Atlanta already arguably boasted the best cost-controlled core of any team in baseball over the next half decade, and adding Strider to the preexisting quintet of Harris, Olson, Riley, Albies and Acuna only furthers their case. By 9:30 a.m. The only IF is whether hell stay healthy and productive enough to earn the money. He was on the major league roster all season. Julio Rodriguez is still going to get a bonus pool increase in his annual pay for his All-Star game appearance, his HR derby appearance, his ROY award, and any other accolade he gets, regardless of his contract. Spencer Strider's net worth $1 million. He has not provided any specifics about his life, including his parents and siblings details, as well as any history linked with his youth. Braves are the best run organization in all of baseball. Puts more AAV up front versus the higher luxury tax hit theyd eventually get if they went year to year through arbitration and/or later extensions. His market will drive up the price being one of the only 2nd tier options (behind pricier Boegarts, Trea Turner; Correa shouldnt opt out). Buying out those arbitration years is key to these deals imo. Even if he does remain this good in a best case scenario, he would only approach the amount hes being guaranteed over those 2 pre-arb years and 3 arb years, and the team should get a significant discount on those arb years in such an early career extension, anyway. And so in that way, I don't feel any pressure. Strider has an 77% chance of avoiding it. Why to constant trashing of the Mets when both teams won 101 games. All of this doesnt even take into consideration if hes not an inner-circle HOF pitcher and has a fall off like Trevor Rogers. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Strikeouts have the highest correlation with statistical fall off. The extension does not to my knowledge have any bearing on the Braves getting a draft pick. Because extensions, more so than free-agent contracts, draw heavily from recent comparables, the Strider deal in many ways paves the way for new precedent to be established in multiple service classes. Thats only free agent contracts. Sure lets look at a guy that posts a mid-.800 OPS and has a proven track record of premium pitching success and just assume thats where Strider would fall in five years?! One thing is certain: he divides his time between the four MLB teams. You do need to add a year of FA to that because 6 years takes them through his first year of FA. Trying to compare the deals those two got to Strider is ludicrous. Its a win-win. Lengthy extensions to position players I get. For fans of baseballtradevalues.com, dont be surprised if he has negative $30M in value by 2025 when he has TJ surgery, misses a year and hes not quite as successful during his third or fourth pass through the league. Spencer Strider currently plays position Starting Pitcher for Atlanta Braves in Major League Baseball, the senior baseball league in the United States. Ugh. Just saying. Win win for both sides. So start 4 years of arbitration at $9-10 million. So now we have $55 mil. Time will tell whether Max Fried and Dansby Swanson also factor into the teams long-term plans. They already have the best cost control in baseball. It shows loyalty and commitment to someone whos earned it. Waves of injuries can derail any team at any time, but health-permitting, the Braves are going to be good for a long, long time. And 2.003 years is nowhere near enough to qualify as a Super Two. If his option is exercised, the deal will be worth $92 million over seven years. Find out more. Hes been healthy for 3 straight years. Not two years. The Braves paid him $75M. Hes expected to get 12 mill next season as an arb 3. Command was an issue at times in the minors and early in the season, but Strider markedly scaled back on the number of free passes he yielded as the season wore on, finishing out the year with an 8.5% walk rate that was scarcely north of the league average. Players come and go and rosters turn over constantly. I have even heard that the team holds onto properties in the New York area to rent to players to keep it affordable for them to live near the park. You are probably not accounting for the adjustments with the new CBA. Shewmakes going to be lucky to carve out a career as a utility player for a 2nd Division team. Though for the sake of my Mets, I hope they penny pinch and let him walk, haha. They overpaid him for his arbitration years by $12-15 million but saved like $36 million in those two free agent years. Spencer Strider - Wikipedia I imagine that will be Soto and Boras target, yeah. That is between 2 and 3 years. My point was that Soto would be worth at best $140M in excess value, he tried justifying the $200M by saying it was the premium for trading for a star. If thats the case, then the Braves just got Spencers first 5 seasons for, check this, 15 million. Wouldnt be a bad time to offer him a 5-6 year deal at 100-120 mill. How Spencer Strider evolved after Tommy John surgery - ajc No Gavin Lux -- big problem. Imo, hes got the Braves over a barrel because they have absolutely no in house alternatives to replace him. Name those Braves fans who felt that way. The league-average, for reference, is 29 percent. ~$31M (Arb4). Its amazing how many people are just totally willing to ignore the possibility of injury or decline in performance despite the dozens and dozens of examples weve seen. Just a cup of coffee at the ML level. It seems about in the right range. All I see is people talking about record setting arb numbers without providing examples with any math. $35M (2028 FA year). Swanson is better then Baez. You know how you can tell you are wrong? This line in the Braves press release is why you dont wait: Strider became the first player in major league history to strike out over 200 with fewer than 100 hits allowed.. His club finished the season with an 88-73 record, finally winning the 2021 World Series, giving the team its first title since the initial victory in 1995. If the Braves can reposition themselves as Americas Team once again, all that peach juice will come flowing back. Every FA in Swansons class is going to be more expensive than he will. But theyre the ones winning Championships while Im sitting at home typing on my laptop, so my opinion doesnt mean much. Have the Braves not noticed how many of their young pitchers have fallen apart after 2-3 years over the last two decades? His arb years were going to be absurdly expensive. The annoying part is we are charged a fee as part of our cable packages to get YES, but more games this year have been splintered off to Prime, Apple and Peacock. BTV? Braves fans are setup extremely well. $25M (2027) $1M (2024) Would an arbitrator just look at a base salary as the springboard for a raise, or would they consider the bonuses as part of the salary when making those decisions? If he spent all of 2022 in the majors then assuming he doesnt get sent down at all next year he will have exactly 2 years of service time after 2023. Neither Strider nor Harris II were ranked in the top 100 prospects by the media outlets that MLB is using to qualify rookies for increased service time and teams getting extra draft picks. Yeah, selling tickets is all that matters. The estimates above are crazy. Dansby is gone. Union before player, always. Great for Strider too, because he locks in generational guaranteed money. From the official MLB site: To qualify for the Super Two designation, players must rank in the top 22 percent, in terms of service time, among those who have amassed between two and three years in the Majors. Everything is an option, quite honestly, Snitker said. The contract will cost him $92 million if he exercises his option for seven years. $12M (2025) Harris hasnt played a season and Olson will be an albatross if a deal in 2 years. $16M (2026) They were wrong, clearly. For someone like me who can only watch my team on national broadcasts due to the unavailability of my teams cable channel at a decent price, getting to watch them on TV (instead of settling for the radio like usual) a few extra times a season thanks to the Apple deal is great. Yes, they get one or two free agent years in exchange, but thats not enough to make up for those heavily expensive arb years in the deal. Strider will be a Super Two and have 4 arbitration years. This. Five years from now, a 28-year-old top-of-the-rotation pitcher in free agency will probably be getting $40MM+ per year. There were talks mentioned in August and no deal was done. If you look at the Braves team what they have done extremely well is develop players. Judge is a high strikeout guy whose average is buoyed by his homerun total. The Braves completed a remarkable late-season rally to capture the top spot in the NL East for the fifth straight season. . early opt out year, incentives based on GG, SS, ASG, MVP votes. His arbitration would have been in line with the highest ever. He could easily see $17m, 2om after this down year, then 28m. 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