00:00but the philadelphia phillies have extended christopher sanchez six years on his deal he's
00:04like yeah he deserves he's a really good pitcher at this point but understand this tom just a year
00:08and a half ago the phillies got maybe the absolute steal of all steals basically signed sanchez like
00:14a few million dollar a year contract when he's one of the best pitchers in baseball up for the
00:19cy young they didn't have to do this year but they did it's gonna make a lot more money here
00:23but
00:24players see that out here that's taking care of one of your own yeah we got you on a contract
00:28that
00:28we can just let it ride out and steal from you at this point right now but the fact that
00:32the phillies
00:32reached out to the agent goes look maybe we're not going to give you full market freedom right
00:37near as a free agent contract they're going to give you but we know we got the best of this
00:41contract
00:41here we love you want me to stick here they give him the big extension here and get him paid
00:46as he
00:46should be as he should be uh right there in the nl cy young last year that's where i expect
00:52him to be
00:53this year and it's really a combination of things they say you know would potentially want to draw
00:57all players in where you know we got to remember when you know i think back to when zach wheeler
01:01left the mets and signed with the phillies like wheeler was a good pitcher but he's not the he
01:05wasn't the pitcher he is today or was last season right so i think it speaks to the development like
01:10so if a pitcher signs with the phillies no one's like listen if i work in their system there's going
01:15to be a higher upside for me because you said they paid chris anges a couple million dollars
01:19they didn't expect to be a cy young candidate and now they're willing to essentially reward him for
01:23it but yes you said it's not the full max amount he could have gotten if he went to a
01:27free agency
01:27in december but it's that middle ground it's like he worked with them he got better the behind the
01:32scenes stuff is great and now we're meeting in the middle saying we're going to pay you you did
01:36awesome we'll pay you to get and we want you to stick around that's great for him it's great for
01:40the team it's great for the development it's great for the fans it's what you want to see in sports
01:45yeah and that was it was it was the right move by both sides to say and again they didn't
01:49even get
01:50one over because you didn't know what sanchez really was but it's one of those things like i might be
01:53the
01:53best pitcher in baseball making like three or four million dollars or five million dollars a year as
01:57opposed to what some of the bigger pitchers are getting at this point
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