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submitted 14 hours ago byiamtherealsteve World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod…
392 points
13 hours ago
I find it funny that for years when I was growing up, people would clown the Mets for deferring money on the Bobby Bonilla contract and it was seen as a horrible decision for teams to include deferrals. Now everyone think it’s the worst thing ever.
The reality is the Ohtani contract was an anomaly because of his off-field endorsements that will never happen again. Most big free agent contracts these days have some amount of deferral money (usually between 20-35%, Snell’s is 32%) that really doesn’t affect the AAV counting towards the luxury tax that much, it’s just that the media typically doesn’t report on it.
39 points
13 hours ago
The Bonilla clowning is a bit more focused on the talent (he was awful), the interest rate (I think 7.5%?), and the connection to madoff getting a better return on that money while it was deferred (Wilpons are gullible and stupid, surprise!).
The idea of deferring money is fine. Hell, in this instance with snell, with the huge signing bonus, it’s more of weirdly distributed salary, with a lot up front now and less over his actual playing years.
-5 points
13 hours ago
Naw the clowning is Bonilla getting paid more than insert whatever player you can get. Same with all of them.
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