Kevin Towers made several poor moves during his five seasons as Diamondbacks GM.
Signing Paul Goldschmidt to a long-term extension was not one of them.
Towers’ front office signed Goldschmidt to a five-year, $32 million extension ahead of the 2013 season. This extension has given him annual salaries of $1 million in 2014, $3 million in 2015, $5.9 million in 2016, $8.5 million in 2017 and $11 million in 2018. He also has a $14.5 million option for 2019, which the team is obviously set to exercise.
At the time of this signing, the 25-year-old Goldschmidt was coming off his first full major league season, in which he batted .