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Old 12-15-2023, 10:28 AM   #1279
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Originally Posted by Parallex View Post
If MLB wanted to make some sort of prohibition against deferred salary you'd think that they'd have done it already in the wake of the ridiculousness of Bobby Bonilla Day.

They aren't going to do anything... not for the least reason that I'm sure they care significantly less about applying a CBT total dollar rate in lieu of a NPV discount rate vs. the possibility of labour unrest.
I think Bobby Bonilla was a much different situation. He only deferred about $6M of his salary and that was when he was bought out by the Mets in the last year of his deal. His original contract was like $30M, so he ended up deferring 20% of his contract and only when we got released.

Ohtani has deferred 97% of his entire contract upfront. There really is no comparable here.
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