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The difference is that Victorino is coming off a major down year. Swisher is coming off a pretty typical year. .272/.364/.473/.837 are all good numbers, as are the 24 home runs and 93 RBI. I don't know know how you can justify signing Victorino for $1M per year less than Swisher. It's different if Swisher was already signed and off the market, but he wasn't. Also, that stuff about Swisher's option easily vesting and the deal essentially being a 5/70 is nonsense. It vests based on plate appearances in the 4th year of the deal. If he is still playing well he will get those plate appearances and option will vest, but if that happens it's likely to be good for the Guardians.
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I respectfully disagree. The Red Sox gave a declining Shane Victorino a 3-year $39 million contract (AAV $13M). The Guardians gave Nick Swisher, a player still producing like he is in his prime years, a 4-year $56 million contract (AAV $14M), and they forfeit a draft pick (1st round?) to the Yankees. Because the Red Sox have a protected first round pick they only would have had to part with their second round pick for Swisher. Which sounds like a pretty good deal. I'll take Swisher at 4-56 over Victorino at 3-39 any day of the week. At present Swisher is twice the hitter that Victorino is. Ben Cherington must have been asleep at the switch, like he has been all off-season. It makes me think that ownership is dictating what he can and can't do because the team he has built just doesn't have the foundations of a playoff team. There is more going on in Boston than meets the eye.