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Matter2003 · 08-23-2009, 10:11 PM

Allright, something definitely is not right about this one...

Jeremy Bonderman, who is in the last year of a 4 year/$38 million contract accepted a 4 year/$7.1 million extension. What made it worse, was it was in the beginning of May. This is completely ridiculous. There is no way in the world his agent would begin negotiating a contract paying him about $11 million/year less than his current contract. Heck, he probably wouldn't even think about negotiating an extension that didn't include a raise in there of some kind. For him to sign that deal in May, when he would have had the ability to go to free agency and likely get much more than that, even if he had a crappy year is nothing more than ludicrous. This kind of stuff has to stop. This isn't even in the upper deck area of being remotely believable...

Someone needs to take a look at something like this, and realize that no player is gonna take an $11 million per year paycut unless its as a free agent who is really tailing off and no team is willing to give him a huge deal...

08-23-2009, 10:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Matter2003 All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: In the vicinity of Buffalo,NY Posts: 1,627 Thanks: 2 Thanked 9x in 8 posts	Player accepts way below market extension in beginning of May?? Allright, something definitely is not right about this one... Jeremy Bonderman, who is in the last year of a 4 year/$38 million contract accepted a 4 year/$7.1 million extension. What made it worse, was it was in the beginning of May. This is completely ridiculous. There is no way in the world his agent would begin negotiating a contract paying him about $11 million/year less than his current contract. Heck, he probably wouldn't even think about negotiating an extension that didn't include a raise in there of some kind. For him to sign that deal in May, when he would have had the ability to go to free agency and likely get much more than that, even if he had a crappy year is nothing more than ludicrous. This kind of stuff has to stop. This isn't even in the upper deck area of being remotely believable... Someone needs to take a look at something like this, and realize that no player is gonna take an $11 million per year paycut unless its as a free agent who is really tailing off and no team is willing to give him a huge deal... __________________ Follow me on Twitter @ ILoveBarbecue Check out my All Things Barbecue Blog