Boasting a terrific young stable of position players, the Athletics have invested in that unit by agreeing to a franchise-record contract with Tyler Soderstrom.

Per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Soderstrom has agreed to a seven-year, $86 million extension with the A’s that marks the largest guaranteed deal in club history.

Passan added the contract includes a team option for an eighth season and escalators that could push the total value up to $131 million.

The seven-year minimum for Soderstrom will keep him under contract through the 2032 season. He was set to become arbitration-eligible for the first time in 2027.

This also marks the third long-term extension the A’s have given out to one of their key offensive players. Brent Rooker got a five-year, $60 million contract in January, followed by Lawrence Butler signing a seven-year, $65.5 million deal in March.

Before Soderstrom’s deal, the A’s had never given out a contract of at least $70 million. Their richest total deal ever given out was a three-year, $67 million pact with Luis Severino in December 2024.

The richest extension for a homegrown player was Eric Chavez’s six-year, $66 million deal signed in 2004.

Soderstrom was the Athletics’ first-round pick in the 2020 draft. He made his MLB debut midway through the 2023 season and struggled in his first exposure against big-league pitching with a .160/.232/.240 slash line.

After starting 2024 in Triple-A, Soderstrom returned to the Show just over one month into the year. He showed a lot of improvement this time around, posting a .233/.315/.429 line in just 61 games.

The 2025 campaign was a full breakout year for Soderstrom with a .276/.346/.474 slash line and 25 homers in 158 games. He was one of three A’s players aged 24 or under who posted at least 3.0 fWAR this past season, along with AL Rookie of the Year winner Nick Kurtz and runner-up Jacob Wilson.

The A’s are still on track to have the fifth-lowest payroll in MLB next season, but they have started to show more of a willingness recently to pay players they believe can be part of their next great core.

It also gives the A’s players they can build around with their pending move to Las Vegas for the start of the 2028 season.