The Milwaukee Brewers locked up Ryan Braun through the 2020 season with a five-year extension.

Braun gets a $10 million signing bonus and will make salaries of $19 million in 2016-18, $18 million in 2019, $16 million in 2020. The mutual option is worth up to $20 million with a $4 million buyout.

Braun’s newest deal includes a no-trade provision, and he will defer some of his salary.

Braun signed a $45 million, seven-year extension in 2008 after winning the NL Rookie of the Year in 2007, which was the largest contract ever by a player with less than one year of service time.

I like Braun, a player who hits for average, gets on base at a good clip and hits for power. I do wonder why teams lock up a player longer term who is already under contract for a long time. Braun will have completed his age 31 season when the current deal expires, which is a great time to let a player go into free agency. The Brewers would have gotten the peak performance on the cheap, and another team will pay for the decline. Now the Brewers get to pay for that.

On top of that, their is five seasons of injury risk ahead of Braun. I take this as more of a way to make the fans happy when the team loses Prince Fielder.