February 6, 201016 yr When you have guys like Verlander and Felix earning $20m a year in the not too distant future and the chance of Pujols making $30m annually with a new contract, it begs the question what will the eventual limit to baseball player's salaries be? It is scary how much these guys get paid and there are major problems in the soccer world from all these excessive pay packages with some guys getting £150,000+ per week.
February 6, 201016 yr I'm posting this for perspective because we had a few idiots in this thread mouthing off we can't risk this payroll and it's to much. Justin Verlander rhp 5 years/$80M (2010-14) $0.5M signing bonus 10:$6.75M, 11:$12.75M, 12:$20M, 13:$20M, 14:$20M Felix Hernandez rhp 5 years/$78M (2010-14) $3.5M signing bonus 10:$6.5M, 11:$10M, 12:$18.5M, 13:$19.5M, 14:$20M limited no-trade protection performance and award bonuses, including Cy Young Josh Johnson rhp 4 years/$39M (2010-13) 10:$3.75M, 11:$7.75M, 12:$13.75M, 13:$13.75M award bonuses: $1M for WS MVP, $0.5M for Cy Young, $50,000 for All Star Granted, it is one year less than the Verlander/Hernandez megadeals, but your per season average basically come out to Josh Johnson at $10 million, and the other two just above $15 million. These are all tremendous ace level pitchers with huge upside and entering their prime. This is an enormous cost savings, and it's important to give a little credit to the Marlins for getting this deal done before Felix/Verlander signed as those two back end free agency years are more valuable now. i.e., what Sosnick originally wanted in the $44 range is, in a vacuum, what Johnson should have got. He may be a kicker and a screamer, but he did see the market turning into this so he knows what he is doing. The Marlins get an A+ on everything for this one. They held firm, saved $5+ million over four years in the process, and got the contract done. Timing is everything. Nailed it. I was actually just thinking this (granted, you put a lot more thought into it than I did). Marlins would have had no choice to put more money in the '12 and '13 seasons. They were pretty much going by the Zack Grienke model of salary before, but I am sure Sosnick would have easily said no deal to 4 year/$39M deal after King Felix and Verlander signing.
February 6, 201016 yr I'm posting this for perspective because we had a few idiots in this thread mouthing off we can't risk this payroll and it's to much. Justin Verlander rhp 5 years/$80M (2010-14) $0.5M signing bonus 10:$6.75M, 11:$12.75M, 12:$20M, 13:$20M, 14:$20M Felix Hernandez rhp 5 years/$78M (2010-14) $3.5M signing bonus 10:$6.5M, 11:$10M, 12:$18.5M, 13:$19.5M, 14:$20M limited no-trade protection performance and award bonuses, including Cy Young Josh Johnson rhp 4 years/$39M (2010-13) 10:$3.75M, 11:$7.75M, 12:$13.75M, 13:$13.75M award bonuses: $1M for WS MVP, $0.5M for Cy Young, $50,000 for All Star Granted, it is one year less than the Verlander/Hernandez megadeals, but your per season average basically come out to Josh Johnson at $10 million, and the other two just above $15 million. These are all tremendous ace level pitchers with huge upside and entering their prime. This is an enormous cost savings, and it's important to give a little credit to the Marlins for getting this deal done before Felix/Verlander signed as those two back end free agency years are more valuable now. i.e., what Sosnick originally wanted in the $44 range is, in a vacuum, what Johnson should have got. He may be a kicker and a screamer, but he did see the market turning into this so he knows what he is doing. The Marlins get an A+ on everything for this one. They held firm, saved $5+ million over four years in the process, and got the contract done. Timing is everything. Nailed it. I was actually just thinking this (granted, you put a lot more thought into it than I did). Marlins would have had no choice to put more money in the '12 and '13 seasons. They were pretty much going by the Zack Grienke model of salary before, but I am sure Sosnick would have easily said no deal to 4 year/$39M deal after King Felix and Verlander signing.
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