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Friday, March 07, 2008

AP: Closer Jonathan Papelbon among 18 Red Sox with new deals

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

NTNgod Posted: March 07, 2008 at 01:03 AM | 11 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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   1. tfbg9 Posted: March 07, 2008 at 01:33 AM (#2707821)
They'd have given him more, but there's that overly straight fastball of his...
   2. Benji Gil Gamesh is not being paid to be that guy Posted: March 07, 2008 at 01:46 AM (#2707832)
He nearly doubled his salary!! And he wanted more! It's *outrageous*!!
   3. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: March 07, 2008 at 02:29 AM (#2707852)
Papelbon:

“I feel a certain obligation not only to myself and my family to make the money that I deserve but for the game of baseball,” he said Tuesday. “Mariano Rivera has been doing it for the past 10 years and with me coming up behind him I feel a certain obligation to do the same.”


For the game of baseball?!?!?
   4. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: March 07, 2008 at 02:36 AM (#2707856)
I guess there could be an argument for that. The more money baseball players make, the more likely athletes are to become baseball players rather than some other kind of players. Teachers making more money is better for "education" (whatever that is), by the same logic. Hell, lawyers making more money is better for lawyering!
   5. Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: March 07, 2008 at 02:38 AM (#2707858)
Treating Jonathan Papelbon's utterances merely as amalgamations of particular truth claims will lead to these sorts of confusions.

They need to be approached as performatives, and interrogated for what forms of human subjectivity might lie behind the ability to create such utterances.
   6. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: March 07, 2008 at 02:39 AM (#2707860)
Good point. I'll remember the next time I walk into my boss's office for a raise, it will be out of an obligation "for the good of mankind."
   7. RayDiPerna Posted: March 07, 2008 at 02:51 AM (#2707862)
For the game of baseball?!?!?


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.
   8. pkb33 Posted: March 07, 2008 at 03:44 AM (#2707887)
What is Clint Nageotte getting paid this year, though?
   9. ValueArb Posted: March 07, 2008 at 06:00 AM (#2707941)
How did he get so much? He didn't win the MVP or a ROY. Shouldn't that cost him $200k on the Brewers scale of insipid achievement measures?
   10. Belfry Bob Posted: March 07, 2008 at 03:07 PM (#2708049)
I'm working on setting the standard for future outstanding theme park department managers.

Been tough sledding so far.
   11. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 07, 2008 at 07:28 PM (#2708244)
$775K is a screwing I could live with.

Been tough sledding so far.

There's that pesky "outstanding", for one thing. 8-)
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