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They'll not only finish 1-2 in the National League Rookie of the Year voting, but, perhaps even more importantly, they're going to be Braves for a long time. In August, Harris signed an eight-year, $72 million extension that includes team options for 2031 and 2032 that could make it a 10-year, $102 million deal. On Monday, a day before Atlanta's 2022 postseason began, Strider signed a six-year, $75 million extension that includes a $22 million team option for 2029.
And the pair is just the latest in a homegrown core of young Atlanta stars who grew up together in the minors and are already winning big together in the majors. "That's sort of the motivation in trying to get something like this done," Strider said Monday with his teammates standing behind him at the news conference."Just to be around the guys that [president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos] has put together and the commitment to winning, not just right now but in the future, with the guys that are in this clubhouse, is very obvious and that means a lot to me. ... I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.
Based on how he's set his team up for the future, Anthopoulos should be a shoo-in for his second executive of the year award -- even if the Braves don't become the first team since the 2000 Yankees to win consecutive World Series titles, which admittedly became a slightly tougher task after Atlanta's 7-6 NLDS Game 1 loss on Tuesday.
What Anthopoulos has done with these long-term signings is part of a bigger trend. Atlanta's under-26 nucleus also includes
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