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Jul 1, 2020 · Bruce Sutter is the Atlanta Braves’ version of the Bobby Bonilla contract. When you don’t know what you’re doing, bad things tend to happen.
- John Buhler
Oct 14, 2022 · Bruce Sutter parlayed success in St. Louis into a lucrative Atlanta contract worth nearly $50 million, thanks to interest on deferred money.
- Dan Schlossberg
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- Bobby Bonilla. Bobby Bonilla is the poster boy for ill-considered salary deferrals, but he actually had two with the New York Mets. The first comes from his first go-round with the club.
- Bruce Sutter. When Bruce Sutter signed with the Braves before the 1985 season, he agreed to a deal for six years and $9.1 million. Each year, his Braves “salary” of $750,000 was just an interest payment on the money, roughly 8 percent interest, which means he still got paid in 1989 and 1990 despite being retired.
- Ichiro Suzuki. Not only is he a wizard with the bat, but Ichiro Suzuki also is a wizard with finances. He deferred $7 million from his original deal with the Mariners and $5 million per year from his 2008-12 contract, at 5.5 percent interest, until 2020.
- Mario Lemieux. The Pittsburgh Penguins of the 1990s were a dominant, star-filled hockey team but lacked the financial resources to pay all those stars. So they deferred a lot of player salaries, most notably that of star Mario Lemieux, who was owed $32.5 million at the time the owners declared bankruptcy — the team’s largest individual creditor.
76.9% (13th ballot) Howard Bruce Sutter ( / ˈsuːtər /; January 8, 1953 – October 13, 2022) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1976 and 1988. He was one of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making effective use of the split-finger fastball.
That ends in 2021, and it’s only 2018, so Bruce Sutter, at some point this year, received or will receive a check for $1.12 million for his 112 games of sub-replacement baseball as an Atlanta Brave.
Bruce Sutter may be the closest to Bobby Bonilla in terms of the number of deferred payments that he's received. In 1984, Sutter signed a six-year contract that paid him $4.8 million. His Braves tenure was highlighted by injuries. Sutter annually receives $1.12 million from the Atlanta Braves and will continue to receive payments until 2022.
Jan 7, 1985 · He said he particularly takes exception to suggestions made in the press that the recent Rick Sutcliffe contract, which was reported at about $9.5 million, is worth more than Sutter’s contract ...
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