
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Matt Moore’s $14 million, five-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays is heavily backloaded, with the team paying a total of $3.5 million over the next three years.
Moore’s deal would be worth $37.5 million over eight seasons and includes escalators that could increase the total to $39.75 million depending on starts and innings from 2014-18.
The deal calls for a $500,000 signing bonus and salaries of $1 million in each of the next three seasons. Moore’s salary rises to $3 million in 2015 and $5 million in 2016.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Matt Moore’s $14 million, five-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays is heavily backloaded, with the team paying a total of $3.5 million over the next three years.
Moore’s deal would be worth $37.5 million over eight seasons and includes escalators that could increase the total to $39.75 million depending on starts and innings from 2014-18.
The deal calls for a $500,000 signing bonus and salaries of $1 million in each of the next three seasons. Moore’s salary rises to $3 million in 2015 and $5 million in 2016.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Michael Moore has never made a denrmoctauy in his life. He is a propagandist in the worst sense of the word. Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of him.