According to Jon Morosi, the Cardinals have reached an agreement with Willson Contreras on a five-year deal. Jesse Rogers added that it’s for $87.5 million ($17.5M AAV). If you’ll excuse me, I need to step away for a bit because I just threw up in my mouth.
I suppose we can take a little solace in knowing that the Cardinals will forfeit a draft pick as a penalty for signing Contreras. They didn’t get a competitive balance pick this year either, plus the Cubs will get a comp pick as a result of losing a player who rejected a QO.