Nick Street
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Doing retirement the right way
Ken Griffey Jr is the 9th highest paid Cincinnati Red this season
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Nick Street
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" Griffey Jr.
July 1 may be known as Bobby Bonilla Day, but the Cincinnati Reds don't exactly love the day either. Back in 2000, the Reds acquired slugger Ken Griffey Jr. in a trade with the Seattle Mariners and quickly signed him to a nine-year, $112.5 million deal. As part of a deferred payment arrangement, an estimated 50 percent of Griffey's contract was deferred from 2009 until 2024, so Griffey receives $3.59 million per year. Griffey's tenure with the Reds was riddled with injuries and never lived up to the success that he had with the Mariners."
...and looks like Manny Ramirez is still on the Red Sox payroll (1.9 mill/yr till 2026) and Kevin Garnett is still getting checks from the Celtics (5 mill/yr till 2024)
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July 1 may be known as Bobby Bonilla Day, but the Cincinnati Reds don't exactly love the day either. Back in 2000, the Reds acquired slugger Ken Griffey Jr. in a trade with the Seattle Mariners and quickly signed him to a nine-year, $112.5 million deal. As part of a deferred payment arrangement, an estimated 50 percent of Griffey's contract was deferred from 2009 until 2024, so Griffey receives $3.59 million per year. Griffey's tenure with the Reds was riddled with injuries and never lived up to the success that he had with the Mariners."
...and looks like Manny Ramirez is still on the Red Sox payroll (1.9 mill/yr till 2026) and Kevin Garnett is still getting checks from the Celtics (5 mill/yr till 2024)
Rafael Devers joins Bobby Bonilla, other athletes whose contracts include big deferred payments
Bonilla is far from the only athlete who receives deferred payments
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Elim Garak
Veteran
Reminds me when the lakers were paying magic until like 10 or 11 years ago.
PortCityProphet
Follow me to the truth
Thats my GOAT 
Injuries are a part of the game but I am not sure people really grasp how great Ken Griffey Jr was.
This is a guy who wound up hitting 630 HR and from the age of 31-40 played just 61% of games. He missed 629 games in those final 10 seasons. Even factoring in some injuries and decline due to age, he would have gotten to 700 HR easily. Probably catches Ruth at 714. Maybe flirts with catching Aaron at 755.
Suppose Griffey played 400 of those 629 games he missed. 400 games is about 1500 at bats. For his entire career Griffey averaged a HR every 15.55 at bats. Let’s call it 16 for a round number.
1500 at bats divided by 16 means you’d expect him to hit about 94 home runs.
So conservatively speaking, Ken Griffey Jr should have wound up at 724 HR.
And I’m not even getting into how many more hits he would have had (he finished with 2,781)
Or how many RBI he would have had (he finished with 1,836)
Edit - I corrected Hank Aaron’s HR total. I mistakenly wrote 756 when Aaron hit 755.
This is a guy who wound up hitting 630 HR and from the age of 31-40 played just 61% of games. He missed 629 games in those final 10 seasons. Even factoring in some injuries and decline due to age, he would have gotten to 700 HR easily. Probably catches Ruth at 714. Maybe flirts with catching Aaron at 755.
Suppose Griffey played 400 of those 629 games he missed. 400 games is about 1500 at bats. For his entire career Griffey averaged a HR every 15.55 at bats. Let’s call it 16 for a round number.
1500 at bats divided by 16 means you’d expect him to hit about 94 home runs.
So conservatively speaking, Ken Griffey Jr should have wound up at 724 HR.
And I’m not even getting into how many more hits he would have had (he finished with 2,781)
Or how many RBI he would have had (he finished with 1,836)
Edit - I corrected Hank Aaron’s HR total. I mistakenly wrote 756 when Aaron hit 755.
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Miles Davis
Prince of Darkness
That wooden Ken Griffey Jr bat I got from Toys R Us still in my home, only bat I’ve loved using
Flex Grossman
Funky
Junior
Reds unis was fire when Griffey was there. Sleeveless joints was heat
Flex Grossman
Funky
The sleeveless with the black long sleeve and helmetReds unis was fire when Griffey was there. Sleeveless joints was heat
No one cares about Bonilla, everyone cared about the kid