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Braves Sign Michael Harris To Eight-Year Extension - MLB Trade Rumors

Braves Sign Michael Harris To Eight-Year Extension - MLB Trade Rumors

Braves Sign Michael Harris To Eight-Year Extension - MLB Trade Rumors
Aug 17, 2022 5 mins, 18 secs

The Braves have moved swiftly to lock up yet another budding star on a contract extension, announcing on Tuesday night that they’ve signed rookie center fielder Michael Harris II to an eight-year, $72MM contract spanning the 2023-30 seasons.

The Braves, one of the few Major League teams to publicly disclose terms of their contracts, added that Harris will earn $5MM per season in 2023-24, $8MM annually in 2025-26, $9MM in 2027, $10MM annually from 2028-29, and $12MM in 2030.

Acuna’s deal, like the one being discussed with Harris, was agreed upon before he even had a full year of Major League service time.

The risk for Harris, meanwhile, is the same that teammates such as Acuna and Albies took when inking their own deals.

He’s locking in a life-changing sum of money, to be sure, but a top-two finish in Rookie of the Year voting would have put Harris on track for arbitration following the 2024 season (or, absent that top-two finish, after the 2025 campaign).

Harris is surely aware that any early-career extension like this has the potential to turn into an unmitigated bargain for the team, just as the Braves are aware that Harris isn’t necessarily a lock to cement himself among the game’s elite young outfielders.

That’s the balance all teams and players strive to strike in early extensions like this, and it appears that in this instance, the Braves and Harris found a sweet spot that’ll clock in a ways short of the Acuna deal.

Atlanta has a $207MM luxury payroll this year and $128MM already counting against next year’s ledger, and that’s before including a Harris contract or arbitration raises for any of Max Fried, A.J.

The extensions are still likely to be cost-effective moves for the team in the long run, but the Braves will have about $50MM of luxury commitments to Acuna, Albies, Riley and Harris alone next season if this deal indeed goes through.

Harris looks the part of a budding young star, and pairing him alongside Acuna in the outfield and alongside Acuna, Riley and Albies in the lineup for the foreseeable future gives the Braves the upside of an explosive quartet being controlled at a mere fraction of market value.

That Harris grew up in the Atlanta area and attended high school just 37 miles south of Truist Park only makes him all the more marketable to the fan base, and surely only makes tonight’s deal sweeter for the latest homegrown, hometown star in Atlanta.

Atlanta Braves Newsstand Transactions Michael Harris II.

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They signed then BJ Upton in 2012 to a 5 year $75.25m deal.

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I love Harris but he is not and will never be as good as Acuna.

Simply look at what Acuna did in his first season and what Harris is doing.

I can guarantee after next year (first full season after a full recovery) you will never, ever claim Harris is “better than Acuna” again?

Harris will be a very good center fielder but he’ll never be Acuna and that’s fine.

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Hitting wise, fine Acuna may still end up being better than Harris (not that I agree with it); however, if you somehow think Acuna is better defensively..

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Harris has more range than Acuna.

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This will go down as better than Ozzie’s deal for the Braves.

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After his second full year in the majors, that Kingery deal wasn’t looking half bad

I don’t think anyone would have wanted to pay him a guaranteed $12MM this year in the final year of a similar deal

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I’m not saying that this deal with Harris will pay off for the Braves, but Harris’ floor is higher than Hamilton’s was

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They’d better hope it’s not like an Aaron Hicks deal

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Hicks is at best a 4th Outfielder and i can see Cashman eating the remainder of his deal with Bader in CF next season

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Also thinking with this signing and Grissom doing so well early that Swanson probably is it a Braves next year

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So the Braves plan on signing everyone to ten year contracts and hope that they all have hall of fame careers

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Uggla was 31 and that was viewed as a bad deal from the start

The Acuna and Harris contracts are OVER before they turn 31

A $9MM AAV for eight years, buying out his 20s, is a very good deal for the Braves, one that becomes more cost-effective per year as the price of a dollar erodes

The Braves at least got to see Acuna, Riley and Martin face and react to the best pitching in the world before placing their bets

The downside to Braves fans is these deals likely mean Acuna will leave the Braves similar to Freeman

Acuna signed a very team-friendly deal, but also locked in $100MM

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I think he would have signed a 5 year deal, and he clearly wanted to stay in Atlanta

Freddie is quite the ballplayer, but because of age, he didn’t fit in to this 8 year model the Braves seem to be rolling with in regards to position players

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Did you miss the part where Harris was drafted

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