That seems a silly way to dice up the numbers. The only one in there that tells me anything useful is the last one. I mean it should surprise nobody that (60/162)*4.22 B is 1.56 B (or 1.48 B out of 3.99 B). Signing bonuses not affected because not part of base salary and were "earned" at signing (with a given payment schedule). I guess I'm interested in the "earned bonuses." Roster bonuses I suppose would have usually been unaffected but were PT bonuses pro-rated in terms of eligibility but not payment? That seems unlikely. (That is, I would have guessed a bigger drop there but maybe there are fewer PT bonuses than I think.)

I'd like to see the raw data on the options to see how big that effect is. I assume that the 2021 total for options was similar to 2020 and therefore this is a real change -- i.e. there were $90 M of options in each year (just a number) and $58 M were declined this year vs. $27 last year. But this year's also included Lester ($10 M buyout) and Daniel Murphy ($6 M, you can always count on the Rox) so if there didn't happen to be anybody like that last year, that would be half the difference. I'd also like to see the list just to get a sense of how many I agreed with last time vs. this time.

Maury Brown posted a similar article on Forbes.

I suggest reading that one.