Sosa in for a huge pay cut?
I was a little surprised to see the numbers on the contract offered to Sammy Sosa by the Nationals: $500,000, non-guaranteed. Sosa earned a whopping $17 million last year. I can't imagine that he'd accept such a huge pay cut. What's more humiliating for Sosa: accepting this deal, or slinking over to the Japanese league for the season? Nationals' brass are meeting with Sosa's agent on Saturday.
Pay cut would be more humiliating. He will slink as long as he gets paid (methinks!)
from $17 million to $500,000!? what did he do? considering i know squat about baseball, i can't imagine what would be bad enough to merit a $16.5 million dollar paycut!
Thanks for your comments! Kalen, the problem was what Sammy *didn't* do last season. He hit a paltry .221 with 14 homers and 45 RBIs in 380 at bats. The homers and RBIs were down about 50% last year, a more than significant decline. But it isn't just last year: his stats have gone down every year since 2001.
On the upside, if you can cal it one, his strikeouts appear to have gone down. Then again, he also had few at bats, so saying his SOs went down is likely not all that accurate.
We should find out today about if he accepts the Nationals' contract offer…