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There’s only 1 other GM/POBO in MLB idiotic enough to sign a player to such a ludicrous contract and that would be that bow tie wearing douche bag named John Mozeliak. He is a proven, incompetent dumbass. I wish he was my boss. I coulda retired 15 years ago.
 
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BonzoGoesToCollege said:
There’s only 1 other GM/POBO in MLB idiotic enough to sign a player to such a ludicrous contract and that would be that bow tie wearing douche bag named John Mozeliak. He is a proven, incompetent dumbass. I wish he was my boss. I coulda retired 15 years ago.
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Sounds like they bought an annuity, that would cover this, and free up funds to move onto other players. (Way Back then).
So, it is a nonevent to them.
 
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BonzoGoesToCollege said:
There’s only 1 other GM/POBO in MLB idiotic enough to sign a player to such a ludicrous contract and that would be that bow tie wearing douche bag named John Mozeliak. He is a proven, incompetent dumbass. I wish he was my boss. I coulda retired 15 years ago.
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It was a win-win for the mets.
 
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BonzoGoesToCollege said:
There’s only 1 other GM/POBO in MLB idiotic enough to sign a player to such a ludicrous contract and that would be that bow tie wearing douche bag named John Mozeliak. He is a proven, incompetent dumbass. I wish he was my boss. I coulda retired 15 years ago.
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Almost every team in baseball has players with similar contract deferments. Some are much worse than Bonilla's. But we talk about his because it was the first one.
 
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msudawg12 said:
No. It was a win-win cash-wise. What the did with the cash is another thing entirely….
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Here's what they did with the cash:

- they freed up payroll to trade for Mike Hampton.
- they went to the world series in 2000, with Mike Hampton winning the NLCS MVP.
- when Mike Hampton left for Colorado in free agency, they got a compensatory draft pick.
- with that draft pick, they selected David Wright.

It worked out well for the Mets.
 
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I'm not sure how MLB contracts work, but in NFL they have to escrow the entirety of contracts. So like when a QB gets a $200 million contract, it has to be in an escrow account.

Which is why, if he continues on his trajectory, Joe Burrows is almost certainly leaving Cincinnatti - they simply ain't gonna have the scratch to front the entire thing.
 
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