Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 15, 2006
Lower Salary

The earlier article I read on Iwamura had him making between 7 and 8 million a year for three years. It turns out, he's earning that over the life of the contract:

Infielder Akinori Iwamura became the second Japanese star to land in the major leagues in as many days when he agreed Friday to a $7.7 million, three-year contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. With one of the lowest payrolls in baseball, the last-place Devil Rays lack the financial resources to compete for top-tier free agents. They feel they made a significant acquisition, however, in the 27-year-old Iwamura.

That's a very good deal for the Devil Rays.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:42 PM | International | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Yeah, that is an excellent, excellent deal, good for them, it'd be nice to see him against the Yankees and Sox star Japs. By the way, Vernon Wells has signed to a 7 yr/126 million deal.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6276146

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061215.wspt-blair-15/GSStory/GlobeSports

Posted by: Dan at December 15, 2006 10:14 PM

"Japs"? Did a time vortex suck us back to 1941?

Posted by: Doug at December 16, 2006 12:32 AM

Doug, I'm sure that was just an innocent mistake on Dan's part. But wow...suddenly we're gonna have a number of Japanese players in the AL east this time, eh? I think the reliever the D-Rays signed last year, Morii, the guy who was out the whole year with a torn labrum or something, he should be back too.

Posted by: Yamen at December 16, 2006 04:56 PM
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