As I am writing this Francisco Lindor’s contract extension deadline is down to less than 3 hours. On the eve of Opening Day he is sitting on a $325 Million dollar contract offer over 10 years.
The Mets and Lindor are pretty set on their offers and have not indicated any budging on their respective propositions. Steve Cohen has made a boatload of money in his life, and he is not going to budge. I love this tactic from Steve Cohen. There is absolutely no worth in having Lindor on the books for 30+ million dollars when he is 40 years old. It will be a Robinson Cano situation in which you are eating half of a contract via trade or you are salvaging the last few years with a washed up player. If Lindor wants to turn down $325 million dollars then he better be ready to hit .300+ and have a significant offensive and defensive season this year to even come close to getting that much. Next offseason there will be an abundance of high caliber free agent shortstops, including Baez and Seager. If Lindor wants to avoid extension then that’s his choice but he will not be the only sought after free agent shortstop on the market.
Basically, Francisco Lindor is refusing to sign a contract unless it is the 2nd largest contract in MLB history behind Mike Trout’s $426.5 million dollar deal. C’mon Francisco be realistic you’ve hit .300+ twice in your career.
I want Lindor to sign the offer Steve Cohen proposed. I don’t care if he wants $385 mil, he is being greedy and taking a huge risk. To be quite honest, no team will ever offer him $385 million dollars… and I am pretty confident in that statement.