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elleng

(130,864 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2019, 07:03 PM Dec 2019

Strasburg stays with Nats; record 7-year deal worth $245 million.

https://www.mlb.com/news/stephen-strasburg-deal-with-nationals

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Strasburg stays with Nats; record 7-year deal worth $245 million. (Original Post) elleng Dec 2019 OP

Excellent Kurt V. Dec 2019 #1

I guess Cole can ask for $500K from the Yankees now. dem4decades Dec 2019 #2

Tough luck for nationals, losing the World Series is more profitable Cicada Dec 2019 #3

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)

1. Excellent

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 07:19 PM

Dec 2019

dem4decades

(11,282 posts)

2. I guess Cole can ask for $500K from the Yankees now.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 07:32 PM

Dec 2019

Glad the Nats and Strasburg worked it out,

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

3. Tough luck for nationals, losing the World Series is more profitable

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 07:38 PM

Dec 2019

Losing the World Series: you get all the extra games income, tickets, concession, tv. Attendance is still strong year 2. But you can tell Strasbourg, we’ll if we had won the series we could pay you the full amount. But we lost so we can only pay you 25 million less.

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