Meet the highest-paid Major League Baseball players by kbadenhausen
last Saturday. “The players need to be better, but I am not a quitter in general and there is no reason to quit now."
Baseball in a pandemic features cardboard cutout of fans in a game between the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians.The shortened season means signing bonuses, deferred payments and endorsements all play a dramatically larger role than usual in the pecking order of MLB pay. Strasburg signed a $245 million, seven-year contract in December, a record-setting deal for a pitcher that lasted a week until Gerrit Cole surpassed it with a deal to play for the New York Yankees valued at $324 million.
He can thank uber-agent Scott Boras, whose clients dominate the list with five of the top eight active players. Boras also has a trio of clients, previously released by their teams, who are due more than $60 million combined — Prince Fielder , Jacoby Ellsbury and Wei-Yin Chen — none of it subject to the 37% cut.
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