Every year one is alive its a blessing for sure!! Enjoy every moment while she here!!
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I will because it'll never be the same when the time comes. So, I try to cherish every moment with her as much as I can.
Sp the total max value of the contract is 10 years 204 million. Not sure anyone was going 300 million for him long termIm say this one more time; that Jackson Merril contract might be the worse contract in baseball; well the Albies contract is the worse; but Merril is right up there! His agent should be fired and killed at the same dam time
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Fam if he would have waited until he was a free agent! he would have been a free agent at 26 years old!! Dude would have gotten 450-500 mill easily at that age and at his skill set!! Easy and thats on the low end!! Toronto is rumored to offer Vlad like 550 right now; you think Merril as an all star right now, who is better than Vlad, plays a premium position, wouldnt get at least that at age 26? Bro, he left 300 mill on the table!!!Sp the total max value of the contract is 10 years 204 million. Not sure anyone was going 300 million for him long term
CAA sports is what google saidWho's his agent?
Padres star disses Juan Soto's Mets deal after signing contract extension
The entire baseball world was left in a state of awe after news broke that the New York Mets had signed Juan Soto to a 15-year, $765 million deal back in Decemb
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Padres Sign Jackson Merrill To Nine-Year Extension
The Padres have locked up Jackson Merrill. Read the details at MLB Trade Rumors.
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Padres Sign Jackson Merrill To Nine-Year Extension
By Darragh McDonald | April 2, 2025 at 10:57pm CDTThe Padres announced that they have signed star outfielder Jackson Merrill to a nine-year contract extension that runs through 2034 with a club option for 2035. Reportedly, it guarantees the star $135MM. There are $30MM in plate appearance escalators that can push his salary earnings to $165MM. Each time Merrill gets to 500 plate appearances in a season, he adds $1MM to his future salaries for the 2030-2034 seasons. The deal can max out at $204MM and includes a $30MM club option for a tenth season that can be converted to a player option. The club option becomes a player option with a top five finish in MVP voting, while a top ten finish is also an escalator. Merrill was previously slated to reach free agency after 2029, so this extends the club’s window of control by at least five years. The outfielder is represented by KHG Sports Management.
Merrill’s breakout was a stunningly impressive part of the 2024 season. It didn’t completely come out of nowhere, as Merrill was a first-round pick, selected 27th overall in 2021. He was one of the top prospects in baseball during his time in the minors. However, by the end of the 2023 season, his experience was still limited. He was drafted out of high school, meaning he had not played college ball. His minor league track record consisted of just 200 games. None of those were at the Triple-A level and only 46 were at Double-A. He wouldn’t celebrate his 21st birthday until April 19th of 2024.
On top of his youth and inexperience, the Padres were asking him to make a major defensive shift. He had primarily been a shortstop in the minors but the Friars had Ha-Seong Kim and Xander Bogaerts in their middle infield. In center field, Trent Grisham’s bat had fallen off and the Padres sent him to the Yankees as part of the Juan Soto deal. The Padres tried Merrill there in the spring, liked the results and gave him the job.
In spite of his talents, it would have been understandable if there were some growing pains for a guy so young and learning a premium defensive position on the fly. But no such pains were evident, as Merrill flourished. He hit 24 home runs for the Padres last year. His 4% walk rate was low but he also kept his strikeouts down to a 17% clip. His .292/.326/.500 batting line translated to a 130 wRC+, indicating he was 30% better than league average. He stole 16 bases in 19 tries. Defensive Runs Saved considered him to be league average in center, no small feat given the circumstances. Even more impressively, he was credited with 11 Outs Above Average, a mark that put him in the top ten of center fielders last year.
The overall package was very strong. FanGraphs credited him with 5.3 wins above replacement and Baseball Reference 4.4. That would have made him a slam-dunk Rookie of the Year in many seasons, but Merrill was up against Paul Skenes and his incredible debut. Merrill got seven out of 30 first-place votes and finished second to Skenes in National League ROY voting. He also finished ninth in the NL Most Valuable Player vote.
Kim departed via free agency after 2024 and the Padres could have considered moving Merrill back to shortstop this year, though president of baseball operations A.J. Preller quickly shot that down in October. The move to center field had gone so smoothly that they didn’t want to mess with it. The 2025 season could hardly have started better. Merrill has a line of .400/.435/.600 through six games as the Padres are undefeated.
The Padres clearly love Merrill. That’s why they nabbed him with a first-round pick and promoted him so quickly. They also reportedly discussed an extension with him prior to his debut, showing tremendous faith in him before he had even proved himself in the majors.
After that breakout, they probably wished they had got something done ahead of time, as he only increased his earning potential last year. Broadly speaking, extension prices go up as guys get further into their arbitration years and closer to free agency. We can only guess what number it would have taken to get a deal done a year ago. The Padres have had plenty of financial pressures in recent years but Merrill’s price would likely only go up over time, so now is better than later.
In terms of pre-arbitration extensions, Merrill comes in a bit below the top guarantees but on a shorter deal that will still allow him to hit free agency with a lot of earning power. As shown on MLBTR’s Contract Tracker, the top guarantees for pre-arb extensions are for Fernando Tatis Jr., Bobby Witt Jr. and Julio Rodríguez. Tatis got $340MM but on a 14-year deal that essentially bought out his entire career. Witt got a guarantee of $288.8MM on an 11-year pact but he seems likely to opt out after seven years with with $148.8MM banked. Rodríguez got a $210MM guarantee over 12 years but with a complicated club/player option structure that could see him depart after seven seasons.
Merrill’s guarantee comes in a bit below that tier of players but on a shorter deal. The final guaranteed year of this pact will be his age-31 season, meaning he will still have a chance to secure another notable guarantee in the future via free agency. The option could keep him in San Diego another year but he also has a decent shot at converting it to a player option. As mentioned, he already finished ninth in MVP voting in his rookie season, so getting into the top five isn’t far-fetched. He has a decent shot of pushing up his salary earnings via those escalators. He also gets to bank huge money ahead of schedule, as he previously wasn’t slated to qualify for arbitration until after 2026.
For the Padres, they have had a budget crunch in recent years but they love their guys. Over the past five years, this is the sixth extension worth at least $80MM that they have put on the books, the others having gone to Tatis, Manny Machado, Joe Musgrove, Yu Darvish and Jake Cronenworth.
Since this deal starts in 2026, it won’t affect the club’s competitive balance tax number in 2025. The specific annual breakdown hasn’t been publicly reported but early-career extensions often involve gradually escalating salaries. Musgrove’s deal is done after 2027. Nick Pivetta can opt out of his deal after 2026 or 2027. Robert Suarez can opt out of his pact after 2025. Luis Arráez, Dylan Cease and Michael King are each making notable salaries and are slated for free agency after this year. Though the budget has clearly been tight recently, the Friars evidently felt that they had enough wiggle room in the future to make this work.
It still amounts to a large pile of future commitments. Between Merrill, Bogaerts, Tatis and Machado, they have four mega contracts on the books through at least 2033. In recent years, with the collapse of their TV deal, that’s led to some budget crunches. The front office has had to get creative, including trading away Soto. They got huge value from a $1MM investment in Jurickson Profar last year, though that now looks suspect in the wake of his recent PED suspension. This winter, they took similar low-cost fliers on players like Kyle Hart and Jason Heyward, as well as a back-loaded deal for Pivetta.
Perhaps more such maneuverings are in the club’s future, as they seem content to run an imbalanced payroll with heavily-paid stars while they look for upside plays elsewhere. For fans, that means they can look forward to watching the Merrill/Tatis/Machado/Bogaerts core for close to another decade, while the supporting characters might rotate. For Merrill, thanks to his quick ascent to the majors, he was able to put nine figures in the bank while still having a chance to hit the open market in his early 30s.
Padres’ Jackson Merrill agrees to nine-year, $135 million contract
Just beginning his second season, the 21-year-old is locked up through at least 2034
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Im say this one more time; that Jackson Merril contract might be the worse contract in baseball; well the Albies contract is the worse; but Merril is right up there! His agent should be fired and killed at the same dam time
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Bro did you see what the contract is and how it works out ? His agent is an idiot, and Merrill an idiot for agreeing to that shit.
Espn and the net saying he going to be averaging 15 mil a year.
That kid is mad talented, and gonna be really good, the Padres seen him and his agent coming from last year. Can't even be mad they just fleeced the fuck out him to the tune of what Poles did to the panthers.
Bruh just say you dont want to be witness to the thrashing.
On some real shit, I wish her well, and hope she see 91 more years.
Let her know the BGOL fam might be perverted degenerate, but we love to see our blackness endure the test of time !
its a shame and ESPN should be destroying the Padres and his agent right now; to be honest, I cant believe the MLB players union let him sign that; that shit is ridiculous; 15 mill aint shit for a player of his caliber!! Im telling you bro, ive only seen maybe one contract thats worse and thats Albies
For the price they got hom for every team in baseball should kicking themselves in the ass.
The players union only protects your rights as a LABORER, just like any other union.
Albies contract is only for like 3 years, he keep doing he does, he knows he gonna have a huge payday coming whether it's with Atlanta or not.
Common sense aint common.
We can blame it on the agents, the MLB, the unions, but at the end of the day, there is no contract without the players signature.
NEVER!!!Scott Boras would have never went for that deal.
Scott Boras would have never went for that deal.
Agents are there to maximize a player's value, at the end of the day the player signs the contract
I get the influence part, MJ dictated his contract with Nike, and told Charles Barlkley how to get piad and he MJ aint no agent by any means.
He had enough sense to know, you aint fucking me over.
I have to be honest, I dont think Merrill that smart.
Dont be surprised if he pull and Antiono Btown on thay 135 mil guaranteed, it's the only shit thay makes sense to me.
Yeah I didn't understand that part either.
You and @jawnswoop ready to hold that L together tonight ?
@DJ Worry about your lil cubs sucka.
Let's keep 100 fam, aint shit they gonna do to get my hopes up.
I get to bask in the consultation they will have a better record than the white Sox.
Nah, stay over there, stop riding that LA pony, it's not a good look fam..
On another note, Elly almost for the cycle last night, hit 2 bombs instead of a triple.
They not going to able to keep him, and wherever he goes he gonna get paid.
Seattle or SD would be crazy not to chase him down.
Now that just sounds disgraceful