By: EFE
By: EFE
The young Dominican shortstop Wander Franco agreed on Tuesday a contract extension with his current Tampa Bay Rays team by 11 seasons and $ 182 million dollars , according to the information offered by the Major Leagues.
In the same contract, the Rays also have the option for one more season than could give Franco another $ 41 million dollars of salary and reach $ 223 million.
Franco debuted last June as the The sport’s best promise and lived up to the hype, after finished third in the AL Rookie of the Year vote , despite playing solo 70 matches.
The young Dominican batted. 288 with seven homers and 39 RBIs, but hit the headlines with an on-base streak of 43 consecutive matches and had more hits than strikes in his at-bats.
Tampa Bay signed shortstop for $ 3, 825 million on July 2, 2017 , the earliest a team could sign Franco, which then had 16 years.
Since then, Franco was the Most Valuable Player (MVP ) Appalachian League rookie level after batting. 351 with 11 home runs and 57 RBIs a little over a year later.
That contract of Wander Franco is one more example of “the persecution” they have for the Dominicans 🥴
Congratulations on Wander and Rays! pic.twitter.com/isSqlE6AF7
– Erick José Lantigua (@EJLantigua) November 23, 2021
Franco maintained his production on the rise in 2019, hitting. 327 /. 398 /. 487 (batting average / base percentage / slugging percentage) between the Class A and Class A Advanced levels.
With the season minor league tournament canceled in 2020, Franco spent time at the Rays’ alternate training site together to future Major League teammates. Left a base base percentage of. 954 more slugging to start the season 1463216129019678732 with Class AAA Durham before the Rays called him to the first team.
The deal with Franco is the largest in Rays history, dating back to the team’s first season in 1998 . Before, the largest was the six-year extension and $ 100 million dollars the Rays gave to third baseman Evan Longoria in 2012.
If the deal goes through, it would set a record for the largest contract ever awarded to a player with less than a year of service. Currently, that record belongs to Venezuelan outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Atlanta Braves , who signed one for eight years and 100 million dollars in April 2019.
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