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Raleigh of Fangraphs. Hello. Hello? You know it's not often we get a major long-term contract to discuss in early September. Strange timing, right?

Because usually you make it this far and you're an impending free agent, why not wait another month or two, right?

That's when free agency starts, two months, nearly to the day, right?

You've stuck it out this long and usually you're in sort of talk to me in the off season mode especially if you're a Scott Bors client.

I was just about to say. But that does not apply to Matt Chapman of the Giants who was just extended. It's a

hundred fifty one million dollar deal over six years so it runs from next season through

2030 with a twenty five million dollar annual salary and a one million dollar signing bonus paid

out next year. It includes a no trade clause and I guess it's sort of an unusual

situation because they were opt-outs and he had an existing deal right so of an

existing deal right so he signed with the Giants on a three-year deal worth

54 million with opt-outs after each season over the off season, last off season that is. So technically I

guess he was under contract but of course he would have opted out but yeah usually

you'd wait so I wonder whether this has anything to do with the fact that his free agency didn't go so smoothly last time, or whether he just got an offer he couldn't or chose not to refuse.

I feel like this deal strikes me is quite fair. I imagine if you're Matt

Chapman and Boris comes to you and is like this is what the Giants would like to do

that you would go yeah okay that that works for me like I if I were to have been forced to guess I probably would have come around to you know an annual salary about where he was.

I think that especially after the first month of the season, we've talked before about

like how he, you know, he had a rough go to start, you know, his WRC plus in in April was like a 79. But since then, 125, 120, 134, 164, like he's having a good year at the plate, he's still a quite

good defender, but there have been times in Matt Chapman's career where the bat has swooned in an appreciable way. in the beneficiary of a very good year coming together with a team that is desperate to spend some money on a good player.

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