Jonah Keri's 50 most valuable contracts in baseball

[joncarlos]

Figured I'd start a discussion here:

Part 2: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...aseball-part-2
Part 1: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...aseball-part-1

The idea is, if you could trade any player for any other player, who is worth more? If the Pirates wanted to trade Andrew McCutchen, who would they consider taking for him straight up? Only players who have appeared in the majors make the list, so no Will Myers or Oscar Tavares.

In general I agree with most of it, but given the way salary inflation is going, I think he's WAY too low on Matt Cain. No Yankees make the list, and only one Red Sock (Pedroia). And I'm sorry but I am just not in love with Jason Kipnis the way that Jonah is. Nor do I see 30 players' worth of difference between Bruce and Heyward.

[TranaGreg]

this is skewed because a $20M contract means something very different to Pittsburgh relative to NY. Small market teams will always value a cheap contract exponentially more than large market teams.

[BigJonEmpire]

That was a fun article. I think most starting pitchers were not given their correct value. They may carry more risk but there is no more universally coveted asset than great starting pitching.

[Sharky]

Best part was the classification system.