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Thursday, March 06, 2008
The Boston Red Sox and closer Jonathan Papelbon agreed Thursday to a $775,000, one-year contract, nearly doubling his salary.
Papelbon was among 18 Red Sox players who agreed to one-year deals, putting Boston’s entire 40-man major league roster under contract.
Papelbon earned $425,550 last season, when he had 37 saves in 40 opportunities and a 1.85 ERA, then saved three of the four World Series games against Colorado. He hoped to get a multiyear deal but had no leverage. He said he wanted to set a salary standard for future outstanding closers.
MLB.com: Red Sox, 18 players agree to terms
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Posted: March 06, 2008 at 08:03 PM | 11 comment(s)
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For the game of baseball?!?!?
They need to be approached as performatives, and interrogated for what forms of human subjectivity might lie behind the ability to create such utterances.
Calm down. He obviously means that he feels an obligation to other young players who will be coming up behind him -- as well as to himself -- to help set the market for them. That's why he references Rivera in the next breath; he feels like Rivera helped set the market for what he will make.
Been tough sledding so far.
Been tough sledding so far.
There's that pesky "outstanding", for one thing. 8-)
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