JP Hochbaum
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He is on the payroll at 23 million per year until the end of 2023. During this time him and Hendricks are the only ones earning over $10 million.
Before the trade deadline Heywards contract was a massive albatross because we had a bunch of high paid arbitration players eating up a bunch of our soft cap space. But now they are all gone and in 2022 we will have about $150 million in cap space and Heywards contract will not prevent us from signing anyone.
He is also literally untradeable, unless we pay his contract, but his return won't get us a prospect worthwhile enough to pay $20 million plus. We are better off just keeping him as the prototypical defender and a somewhat decent contact hitter, this year has been rather bad for him in that regards.
We need to stop with the idea that we can get rid of him, it doesn't make any sense for another team to want him, and it makes little sense for us to eat his money and just release him at a time when we won't be good anyways.
Before the trade deadline Heywards contract was a massive albatross because we had a bunch of high paid arbitration players eating up a bunch of our soft cap space. But now they are all gone and in 2022 we will have about $150 million in cap space and Heywards contract will not prevent us from signing anyone.
He is also literally untradeable, unless we pay his contract, but his return won't get us a prospect worthwhile enough to pay $20 million plus. We are better off just keeping him as the prototypical defender and a somewhat decent contact hitter, this year has been rather bad for him in that regards.
We need to stop with the idea that we can get rid of him, it doesn't make any sense for another team to want him, and it makes little sense for us to eat his money and just release him at a time when we won't be good anyways.
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