Dan Uggla: Well Paid to Well, Go Away:

[clydepepper]

SF tour of duty: 4 games, 0-11 with 6 Ks and 3 errors.

for which the Braves still pay him upwards of $13 Million

Good Work if you can get it, huh?

[gregr2]

No kidding, I could retire on that.

[brewing]

He has nothing Bobby Bonilla.

[the 'stache]

I just looked this up on Wikipedia. Bonilla is being paid $1.6 million a year from the Mets until the year 2035. Wow.

From 1992 to 1994, Bonilla was the highest paid player in the league, earning more than $6 million per year. Bonilla is currently being paid approximately $1.19 million by the New York Mets each year. This was part of a deal made when the Mets released Bonilla before the 2000 season while still owing him $5.9 million for the final year of his contract. The deal expires in 2035, at which point Bonilla will have been paid $29.8 million for a season in which he did not even play for the Mets.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

I just looked this up on Wikipedia. Bonilla is being paid $1.6 million a year from the Mets until the year 2035. Wow.

Seems like Al Hrabosky got an incredibly long deferred deal from Ted Turner, though BaseballRefence does not list much detail. It was prior to the million dollar contracts, but I seem to remember something like 100K for 25 years or something like that.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Seems like Al Hrabosky got an incredibly long deferred deal from Ted Turner, though BaseballRefence does not list much detail. It was prior to the million dollar contracts, but I seem to remember something like 100K for 25 years or something like that.

See, now that is something I did not know.


Turner was going to give him just a normal deal, but the Mad Hungarian gave him one of these looks, and ol' Ted put him on the 25 year plan.

[clydepepper]

Now the guys have great pension plans, so no need to defer.