The increasingly weirder world of the JD Drew contract
2007-02-15 15:44
by Bob Timmermann
According to an AP story, if JD Drew doesn't play in a specified amount of games in a 3-year period (500 from 2007-10 and 375 from 2008-10), then his 2011 salary would be deferred at 1% per year and the payouts would go out until 2030.
Also, the Red Sox can specify 28 teams that Drew can be traded to.
Hmm..., there are 30 teams. Drew can't be traded for himself. I wonder which he team he can't be traded to?
Philadelphia and the Dodgers would be my guess. Since he's burned his bridges there. Oh wait, and St. Louis. And Atlanta. And Boston. And three hard-boiled eggs. (Honk!)
And if any of the parties participating in this contract are shown not to be in their right mind the entire agreement is automatically nullified. It's all right. That's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause.
He can't be traded to a team that would give a long term contract to someone like him (or D. Driefart or O. Perez). Reminiscent of someone who once said "I would never join a club that would have me as a member". By the way who was that?--I must be having a senior moment.
The Red Sox picked him up out of a catalog.
You can't fool me, there ain't no sanity clause!
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