Willy Adames, the highest free-agent shortstop in the marketplace, has reached an settlement with the San Francisco Giants, in response to ESPN. The deal pays him $182 million over the following seven seasons, together with a $22 million signing bonus, and serves because the Giants’ first main transaction executed below the management of recent prime baseball operations govt Buster Posey. The contract is a file excessive for the Giants, passing the $167 million deal for Posey himself.
Adames, 29, spent the final three and a half seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers. Over that span, he hit .244/.323/.457 with 107 residence runs and a 113 OPS+. His contributions have been estimated to be price 14 Wins Above Substitute, in response to Baseball Reference.
CBS Sports activities just lately ranked Adames because the sixth-best free agent in the marketplace. This is what we wrote on the time:
Adames cinched a brand new single-season excessive in residence runs and notched his fifth consecutive three-plus-win season (excluding 2020’s dash) thanks partly to a white-hot August. For essentially the most half, he is the identical participant he has been for years: he is able to impacting the baseball incessantly sufficient to overshadow his swing-and-miss tendencies; he isn’t a Gold Glove-caliber fielder, however he’ll stay at shortstop in the meanwhile; and so forth. The one attention-grabbing wrinkle he added this season was a newfound willingness and talent to steal bases. If we needed to guess, we’d pencil Adames in for a sweeter deal than the seven-year, $177 million Dansby Swanson obtained a number of winters in the past.
Final season, the Giants gave three totally different gamers at the least 20 begins at brief, together with Tyler Fitzgerald and Nick Ahmed. Adames will stabilize the place for the Giants whereas forming a succesful left facet of the infield subsequent to Matt Chapman.
San Francisco is coming off a disappointing 80-82 season that resulted in a fourth place end within the Nationwide League West.
