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Originally Posted by Airdrop01
Sometimes you do a thing because it is the right thing to do.
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Do people do that? Sometimes. Do multi-million-dollar corporations like the Astros do that? Never.
Signing a player to an extension, even when his current contract still has two years to run, undoubtedly struck Houston management as a good deal. It locks up a franchise player for three more years at what the Astros must believe is a bargain price compared to what they'd have to pay him as a free agent or pay some comparable player after 2019. The amount they're paying for 2018-19 above the existing contract price is just the cost of getting Altuve's signature on the extension. This isn't "doing right by Altuve" so much as it's "doing right by the Astros." As noted baseball commentator Michael Corleone once put it, "this is business, this isn't personal."