The Toronto Blue Jays supplied celebrity first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. a deal for about $500 million earlier than negotiations have been halted final month — though vital deferrals put an estimate of the particular internet current worth of the provide between $400 million and $450 million, league sources acquainted with the negotiation inform The Put up.
These figures characterize the vary the Blue Jays have been keen to debate and, thus, particulars the place issues stood earlier than Guerrero’s camp halted negotiations, as promised, earlier than the Jays’ first full-squad exercise Feb. 18.
The Jays have been providing to make Guerrero the sport’s third-highest paid participant, behind Mets celebrity Juan Soto’s document $765 million, non-deferred deal that might attain $805 million and Dodgers two-way worldwide celebrity Shohei Ohtani’s closely deferred $700 million deal, which is valued in present {dollars} at between $440 million and $470 million.
Guerrero, who would hit free company younger (he turns 26 Sunday), reaffirmed to The Put up final month that the Jays’ provide was not near what he was searching for. He later advised Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes that he supplied to signal with Toronto for lower than $600 million, which might nonetheless put the perimeters $100 million-plus aside when it comes to precise worth, assuming Guerrero’s request was considerably near that $600 million quantity. Guerrero want to do a really lengthy deal like Soto, however has acknowledged that Soto’s unmatched consistency pretty places the brand new Met’s worth larger.
