Astros are ‘still interested’ in a Jeremy Peña extension, so what could a long-term contract look like?

Houston Aston Shortstan Shortstop Jeremy Peña has recently changed the representation, hiring Scott Boras as his new agent, as he approaches his fourth year’s end of his fourth year. This schedule means that he will make a free agency after the 2028 season. However, his new agent does not stop Astros. Astros General Manager Dana Brown divided Sunday that he will allow Boros to know that he “is still interested in the long-term signature of Jeremy” and that “there is in touch” on possible extension. (Brown also included another Boras client to extend his intention to extend Alex Bregman without a transaction that will ever be implemented.)

27, 27-year-old Preh graduated from Houston’s most efficient player. In this season, he strikes .322 / .378 / .489 11 Homework and 15 stolen grounds. Its 143 options + would present a new career high and its semi-priority victory, which will be replaced at the top, will lay the PACE, its current best (5, back to 2022). For his career, he had more than 5 wares for 162 games that even not yet complete all the stellar game, or winning another seasonal prize, except for 2022.

If you compare Peña for all short-lived, he is in the fifth place since the start of 2022 season. Before the likes of “Danctbi Suazon and Will Hakobus”. It is enough to understand why Astros will want to extend the Pea’s agreement, especially since he will have only two team controls this year. But how much can you make such an effort?

The secret of predicting the future in baseball to the past and, in particular, to look for situations that are most similar to someone. Rejoice, while it may be tempting to treat the recent free agents’ agreements ($ 25 million) and a year). (Exact discount speed varies from that date.) If Peña was a free agent in this winter, she would certainly relate those average annual values. Although he is not, he signed any expansion, most likely reflect the rest of his team.

Given the full two-year service schedule to sign a period of four years or longer than 2021 MLB Commercial news dealing database.

It is not easy to find an accurate point of comparison. Gyme and Fletcher are included, because they played some short hotels that took them to their expansion. Gimeman still has defensive cutlets to spin it but I think that Fletcher ignore a point of comparison. The same can be true for Viti and Tatis, both of them were small in their expansion. Meanwhile, I don’t think it would be fair to say that Prider or Croford was quite a lot at Peña.

Although I can’t point to one of the above expansion as an easy project for Astros, I think that the spectrum of contracts can serve as guidelines. If WITT and Tatis expansion feels rich (they almost levels that Adames and Swanson received through a free agency), both Prayidomo, Crawford, and Gimenes’ feelings. I think that for the reason, you will be able to evaluate the AAV of PEÑA extension as between $ 22 and $ 24 million.

Alas, it’s not so simple. Peña’s age (he will become 28 years old) He has two obvious extensions before. Sign a short deal that allows you to achieve in its 30s, which can make a larger number of transactions. If you accept that they are an obvious choice, you can understand whether Boras can resist any tour of team control for everyone. Yes, there is a risk of injury or unexpected decline, but disorder (for $ 30 million per year) can be worth pushing the dice.

In other words. Good luck to brown, because he is probably going to cut his job for him if he remains faithful to his Word, to expand Peña.