Cubs sign Starlin Castro to Seven year extension

[Goober]

Seems like an unnecessary risk at this point. Nothing like giving 60 million to a kid who has seen his plate discipline and BABIP decline every year. Not to mention that he is terrible defensively, and will be playing a different position in seven years.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Worst good player in the league.

[bcransom]

One of the most outstanding pure swings in baseball right now, I get the investment. He's got what it takes to stick at SS for the next ten years and presumably his maturity will tick up. At the least you get that enormous upside at a premium position. Solid deal in my eyes.

[Villain]

Gob shows his face to talk shit about another team again.

#WHATASHITTYFRANCHISE

[Goober]

One of the most outstanding pure swings in baseball right now, I get the investment. He's got what it takes to stick at SS for the next ten years and presumably his maturity will tick up. At the least you get that enormous upside at a premium position. Solid deal in my eyes.

Maturity will go up? I guess the only place to go is up, when you're a rapist.

[bcransom]

Basically...he's a Manny-esque jack ass on and off the field right now, but the risk/reward + positional value justifies the contract for me.

[Goober]

No it's not an outrageous contract in the large scheme of things, but I think it's unneeded to put that kind of money on the table for a player whose statistics, maturity and work ethic has not only failed to improve, but declined since he was promoted to the major leagues three years ago. I think it's unlikely that Castro would have done anything to really increase the asking price over the next year or two.

[FirstTimer]

Seems like an unnecessary risk at this point. Nothing like giving 60 million to a kid who has seen his plate discipline and BABIP decline every year. Not to mention that he is terrible defensively, and will be playing a different position in seven years.

Castro has actually been pretty good defensively this year after a rough start.

Offensively this year its been pretty bad.

[FirstTimer]

No it's not an outrageous contract in the large scheme of things, but I think it's unneeded to put that kind of money on the table for a player whose statistics, maturity and work ethic has not only failed to improve, but declined since he was promoted to the major leagues three years ago. I think it's unlikely that Castro would have done anything to really increase the asking price over the next year or two.

He was better last year than his first season.

What the hell are you talking about?

[NAHSTE]

Starlin Castro's "progression" over the years ...

BA: .300, .307, .283, .258
OBP: .347, .341, .323, .294
BB%: 5.7, 4.9, 5.2, 3.7
K%: 14, 13.4, 14.5, 16.3
Contact %: 85.9, 85.1, 83.1, 80.9

Combine that with below average to negative baserunning and fielding value and we have a pretty crappy player.

[Warner2BruceTD]

He's not the worst good player in baseball anymore, because he isn't good.

[NAHSTE]

It's almost as if it's a bad idea to bank on someone who derives 95% of his OBP from his batting average and doesn't walk or hit for power to continue to be useful going forward ...

[FirstTimer]

Amazing what happens when you don't have a BABIP 40 points over the MLB average.

[Guest]

It's almost as if it's a bad idea to bank on someone who derives 95% of his OBP from his batting average and doesn't walk or hit for power to continue to be useful going forward ...

Even Dom Brown, who had no walks in May, still has more walks than Castro right now.

[FirstTimer]

Castro's current slash line:

.238/.273/.331