It wasn’t him asking for an advance, the advance that he got as a part of being on the Major League Roster for 2020 that was agreed up in March, was greater than the amount he is due to be paid in the 60 game season.
The righthander, coming off a right elbow injury, signed a one-year, $600,000 guaranteed deal with the Red Sox during spring training.
Such a guarantee was for relatively little more than the major league minimum of $563,500. But the fact that it was a guaranteed deal — with incentives based on health that could increase its value — positioned McHugh to receive a $286,500 advance on his salary under the terms of the March agreement between MLB and the Players Association, in which MLB owners advanced players $170 million…
McHugh qualified for the largest advance. Yet with the season now reduced to 60 games, players will receive salaries of just 37 percent of what they would have gotten for a full schedule. For McHugh, that means a salary of $222,222 — or about $64,000 less than he already received from the advance.
So, in theory, while McHugh’s teammates could soon start collecting paychecks, he could get an invoice from the club.
I can’t understand the so-called “thinking” of people who hold these beliefs. Does West think those 100,000 people would have just fallen over anyway? Does he have any explanation for why the year before didn’t have the same totals, or the year before that?
Don’t know if this has been discussed, but…I received and email today from MLB about my MLB.TV subscription. It’s getting prorated for the 60 game season, and I can either request a refund for the balance or have it apply to my 2021 subscription. I guess I’ll opt for the latter at this point.
I get the MLB.TV subscription mainly because of my traveling, as you can watch it live anywhere in the world. Since I’m not sure when I’ll be on the road again, domestically or internationally, I’m not sure how much use it’ll be, but I guess I’ll see how it plays out.
I got the same email and will take the rollover. MLB.TV is how I watch all baseball and I get every Astros game. Even if they’re playing the Rays or Marlins I can see them on the Rays feed or on TV since both teams air every game here. A recent development for me is my bankrupt cable provider (Frontier) has removed the MLB Network from their system with no plan to bring it back that I can tell. Since they are the fiber optic provider for this area, my only other TV choice is a bandwidth-inferior Spectrum. I can’t seem to put together a cord-cutting package that includes both MLB and NFL networks, plus all the other things gf and I like. I may make the Spectrum jump but I’m real skeptical of the true speed of their internet.
Wow, that has to be the best weekend road schedule we’ve had in ages. Weekends at San Diego, San Fran, Toronto, Tampa, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland. Damn I hope I’m alive next year and we can Travel. SD on Memorial Day weekend is gonna be awesome, Toronto is next on my list.
