Meet the MLB's highest-paid players of the abbreviated 2020 season
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 seven-year, $245 million contract in December, which set a record for a pitcher that lasted a week until Gerrit Cole surpassed it with a nine-year, $324 million deal to play for the New York Yankees.
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 —and none of it is subject to the 63% cut.
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