The financial institution accounts for the 2 greatest Cincinnati Reds stars received bigger this previous week. Elly De La Cruz and Hunter Greene every received bonuses of over half-a-million {dollars} for his or her performances within the 2024 season.
Since the latest collective bargaining settlement, all 30 groups have chipped in a little bit beneath $2,000,000 every to kind a $50,000,000 pool of “bonus” cash to be given out to pre-arbitration gamers.
An eligible participant will get $2.5 million for profitable an MVP or Cy Younger Award, $1.75 million for second within the voting, $1.5 million for third, $1 million for fourth, fifth or All-MLB first group, $750,000 for Rookie of the 12 months, $500,000 for second in Rookie of the 12 months voting or All-MLB second group. The rest of the cash is given out based mostly on a WAR-based formulation that was agreed upon within the CBA.
Shortstop Elly De La Cruz earned extra from the bonus pool in 2024 than he earned from the Reds. Cincinnati paid their famous person the league minimal – $742,500. As part of the bonus pool and his glorious 2024 season, he earned $860,710. The Main League Baseball stolen base chief greater than doubled his earnings with the bonus and pushed his payout to $1,603,210 for his efficiency on the sphere final season.
That was the eleventh highest bonus from the entire 101 eligible gamers for the pool. Bobby Witt Jr. received the highest bonus of $3,077,595. Solely Paul Skenes and Gunnar Henderson earned bonuses above the $1.75M mark (together with Witt Jr.).
Hunter Greene, in contrast to De La Cruz, was paid considerably extra by the Reds than he earned as a bonus. Greene, who signed a contract extension with Cincinnati, received $3,333,334 for his base contract in 2024. His incomes Cy Younger votes this previous season earned him a bonus of $1,000,000 on prime of that from the membership. The appropriate-handed starter received one other chunk of cash to go along with that as he’s the recipient of an extra $529,910 from this bonus pool – with that quantity representing the twenty first largest bonus of the group. In whole these three push his earnings as much as $4,863,244 for his efforts.
