The $2,185,000 value would be barely half of today’s average salary – $3,952,252 – and even in today’s dollars, accounting for inflation, it would be about $9.25 million. But the fact that a team was willing to guarantee a player’ salary for 10 years, at $215,000 a year, was mind-boggling even if Garland had been a 20-game winner for Baltimore the previous season.
While the Garland contract was a stunner, it also served as a cautionary warning to teams …
The Dodgers, whose front office overflows with former general managers, hired yet another one last week. The Dodgers, in fact, have so many general managers on their payroll they should assign them numbers so everyone can identify them. I mean if you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, they should provide a scorecard to determine who is who among the general managers.
And if the Dodgers don’t want to give out numbers, as they do with players, they could …
It was three Septembers ago that the Dodgers celebrated a division crown in the Chase Field swimming pool; the team celebrated in a more muted style this past fall. But in 2016, the post-Winter Meetings thinking went, that might be the Diamondbacks rejoicing in their own pool, or San Francisco marking an even year with another World Series run.
The Dodgers certainly have question marks …
