“Vlad Guerrero Jr.’s $500M Ambition: Could He Become the Blue Jays’ Greatest Legend?”

With his contract status no longer in question, the focus now recenters on Guerrero, the baseball player, and what he can bring to the Blue Jays over the next decade-plus. It’s easy to look at a contract that extends incomprehensibly far into the future and worry about how productive the player will be toward the end, but such is the reality for all deals of this nature; no team is signing a long-term contract with hearty enthusiasm for how the player will look at age 38. As with Soto, the reason a team signs up to pay a player such as Guerrero handsomely during his likely decline in his late-30s is the opportunity to have him on the roster while he’s in his prime in his late-20s.

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