The big stories in prospect world this week are the long-term contracts for Brewers SS Cooper Pratt (8 years, $50.75 million) and Mariners SS Colt Emerson (8 years, $95 million). 

Pratt’s deal involves two club options at 15 million per year. This part is somewhat humorous to me. Pratt will be 29 and 30. Do you think the Brewers will be willing to pay him that money? And if they do exercise that option, what’re the odds he plays that upcoming season in Milwaukee? Not that it matters much right now. And hey, if Grey offers $50 million to lock me in at Razzball for a decade, I hope you won’t worry about my ten-years-later location. It’s strange to me that a team would trade Freddy Peralta to save money and then guarantee a pile of money to a prospect who slugged .348 in 120 Double-A games last year. Granted he was 20 years old, which made him 3.8 years younger than the average age at that level, but it just feels a little strange to see a guy get paid before really performing, particularly by a team that tends to cry poor when articulating their machinations.