Dec
03
ESPN: Red Sox make Pedroia highest paid player
ByWell, not really, but someone forgot a period.
The reigning AL MVP has signed a six-year, $40.5 million contract extension. The Red Sox are buying out two years of Dustin Pedroia’s free agency at market rate. ESPN just wishes Boston were going a bit overboard. (Hat tip to long-time reader Patrick for mailing this one in.)
No, that’s true. In addition to the six year, $40.5M contract extension, the Sox gave Pedroia a one-time gift of $405M in acknowledgement of his 2008 MVP season, easily the finest single season by a middle infielder in the history of baseball.
Since Pedroia only cares about winning and not about individual achievements or monetary gain, he’s decided to donate that $405M, as well as all his future earnings to The National Institutes of Health, so that they can finally find a cure for the cancer that threatened to derail the career of Jon Lester and may ultimately make him merely a good pitcher, rather than the best pitcher ever. He’s also melted down the gold in his MVP trophy and is personally recasting the scrap into hypoallergenic needles to treat Sudanese Darfur refugee children stricken with malaria, polio, and AIDS.
For Diamond Cutters, I’m Peter Gammons, RSPN.
Dude, hilarious comment. I read it the whole time picturing the words coming out of Gammons mouth.
Right around “Sudanese Darfur refugee children stricken..” spit would be flying in every direction.
excellent point.
not funny. try again.
it’s a press release, marty. it’s not comedy. just because the red sox are making a calculated gambit of nearly a half-billion dollars on a half-sized man, doesn’t mean it’s in bad taste, or needs revision.
Classic….
http://www.baseballprospectus......ed/?p=1114
joe sheehan disagreed with the yanks’ arbitration decisions.
Yeah, he gets more per inch than any player in the game.
I think he will get more mileage per inch. He will play for forty years, so this is a fair deal. Sure, years 33-40 may not be a good return, but this guy’s a revolutionary hybrid electro-hydro-bio freak. He runs on water, people.
They’re growing more in Japan. Cashman is not doing his job.
They’re growing more in Japan.
Good thing we passed on Junichi Tazawa…
They will be short. They will be closer to the computers. Right now, a test is being performed on a new hybrid hitting-pitching prototype, codename wOBA Chamberlain. It will drink courage.
“Sony. Because Caucasians are too damn tall.”
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i.....AA280_.jpg
Yes. The following was written by an early prototype humanoid pitcher born in 2005 who will pitch a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox in 2037. With Pedroia making a diving play for the save.
He looks quite bright, considering these were his first words:
http://kiemisakama.blogspot.co.....uters.html
hope the mlbpa is ok with that pedroia gift…might seem small to the pigs
just out of curiosity – anyone have soriano’s stats his last year with the yanks – the “One pitch, one swing, one nothing”. He gets my vote for best player slogan/
Where did he finish in the MVP voting. The yankees did make the playoffs, but the lack of facial hair obviously hurt Sori
$40,500,000 will surely buy enough lollipops that Pedroia can make is way into the command post of the entire Lollipop Guild.
Either that or finally afford some lifts.
Well, at least they won’t have to raise the ceiling in the clubhouse or the dugout for at least another 6 years.
Isn’t Pedroia who will probably bat .315+ for quite a few years…worth more than $7 mill a season?
Prior to free agency, no.
So, they are basically just giving him a raise until he reaches free agency?
They’re locking him into a contract during a time which they could progressively pay more and more in arbitration.
it’s guaranteed money for the player, less hassle all around, as long as the player has established that they are going to stick. winning the MVP may do that, but just being gritty is good enough.
so for the player they may get less overall money, but it’s secured. which is how speculation started about cano not being prepared this year.
Well now they’ll have him locked up until an age at which he’ll start to decline: 15
nice.
Well if I was the god damned MVP I certainly wouldn’t have settled for that…
well, yeah. that’s a good point. ryan braun made more and he didn’t win. and then there’s cano…
I’m glad I was not the only person to see that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!