Alright, let’s talk about this fella, Giancarlo Stanton, and his big ol’ contract. I heard folks jabberin’ about it, so I figured I’d try and make some sense of it for ya. Don’t expect no fancy words, just plain talk, ya hear?
So, this Stanton guy, he plays baseball, right? Big strong fella, hits the ball real far. And ’cause he’s so good, he gets paid a whole heap of money. We’re talkin’ millions and millions, more than I ever seen in my whole life, that’s for sure.
Now, they tell me he signed this contract a while back, a real whopper. Thirteen years, they say. Thirteen years of gettin’ paid! And how much, you ask? Well, hold onto your hats, ’cause it’s a big number: 325 million dollars! That’s three hundred and twenty-five million! Can you even imagine that much money? I surely can’t.
They say that was the biggest contract in baseball history back then. Biggest ever! This fella Stanton, he musta been somethin’ special. And the team, the Miami Marlins, they were willin’ to pay him all that money. Guess they figured he was worth it, bringin’ in all them fans and hittin’ all them home runs.
- Contract Length: 13 years
- Total Value: $325,000,000
- Yearly Average: Around $25,000,000 (that’s 25 million a year, folks!)
But things change, ya know? He ain’t playin’ for the Marlins no more. Now he’s with the New York Yankees. Big city team, lots of money there too. And they’re still payin’ him, even though he signed that contract way back when. That’s how these things work, I guess. Once you sign on the dotted line, they gotta pay ya.
They say the Yankees, they gotta pay him somethin’ like 98 million dollars over the next four years. That’s a lot of dough, even for them Yankees. And then after that, they still owe him more! Another 34 million over the two years after that. It just goes on and on.
He’s makin’ somethin’ like 32 million dollars this year alone! Thirty-two million! I can’t even wrap my head around it. What does a fella even do with all that money? Buy a whole town, I reckon.
Now, some folks say he’s earned every penny of it. He’s hit a lot of home runs, they say. He’s helped his teams win games. And that’s what they pay him for, right? To hit them balls and win them games.
But other folks, they grumble. They say he’s gettin’ paid too much. They say he ain’t worth all that money. They say there’s other players just as good who don’t make nearly as much. Well, that’s always the way, ain’t it? Someone’s always gonna complain.
And get this, they say he’s already made somethin’ like 191 million dollars in his whole baseball career! One hundred and ninety-one million! That’s more money than most folks will ever see in their whole lives, times ten, maybe even twenty! He got a big signin’ bonus too, almost half a million dollars just for sayin’ he’d play for the team. And they even gave him extra money, like 50,000 dollars, for doin’ certain things good, like hittin’ lots of home runs I guess.
I heard tell of another fella on the Yankees, Aaron Judge his name is, got an even bigger contract. 360 million dollars over nine years! Nine years! That’s even more than Stanton got, though for less time. These fellas, they’re makin’ more money than I can even dream of.
So, that’s the story of Giancarlo Stanton’s contract, as best as I can tell it. A big ol’ contract, worth a whole heap of money. Whether he’s worth it or not, well, that’s for other folks to decide. Me, I’m just tryin’ to make sense of it all, these big numbers and these fancy baseball players. It’s a whole different world, that’s for sure.
Anyways, that’s what I heard, I hope it makes some sense to ya’ll. It’s a lot of money, a whole lot of money. Makes you wonder where it all comes from, don’t it? But that’s baseball for ya, big money, big players, and big contracts like this fella Giancarlo Stanton’s.
