Corbin Burnes’ $210 million deal with Diamondbacks includes $64 million in deferrals
January 3, 2025
Corbin Burnes’ $210 million deal with Diamondbacks includes $64 million in deferrals
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> Arizona agreed to give Burnes four premium season tickets in a best-available location at no cost for all regular-season, post-season and spring training games. Burnes is allowed to purchase up two additional tickets adjacent to the team-provided seats.
However will he survive without a personal suite?
The Arizona Deferralbacks
Good for baseball?
deferrals ? hmmm …. interesting
The Dodgers are ruining baseball
Wanna be dodgers
Can’t believe the Dbacks are ruining baseball and circumventing the luxury tax.
God I’m so tired of deferrals. Like what’s the point of the luxury tax if teams can just circumvent it like this?
😱
MLB is gonna go into a financial crisis at this rate.
Wait but this doesn’t fit the narrative that it’s only the Dodgers who do this
see!! we can do deferrals too!!!
Dodger fans having a blast going “see! See!” They’re really tickling themselves and missing the point.
The deferrals themselves are only a part of the issue. It’s the richest team in the league in a highly popular place of living who’s giving every single free agent and extension massive deferrals which gives them even more spending power than they already are blessed with. They’re able to pay anybody they want to regardless anyway. Free agents are more willing to accept deferrals to live in LA and be on a team full of superstars too. Some of that stuff is unavoidable (such as LA being a sought after destination), but quit acting like it’s ridiculous for fans across the league to not like that a top 3 revenue team has signed or traded/extended for several of the biggest names in the sport. It’s ok for y’all to acknowledge that it’s not a level playing field on the FA market. No, not every market can sustain an LA or NY budget. Nobody is coming for your trophy.
Also, 1 example is not the “gotcha” y’all think it is. I expect this to be a largely hated opinion, but oh well
Q: what’s more annoying than the dodgers deferring 99% of Ohtani’s $700 million contract?
A: now seeing how much of every FA contract is deferred.
I was wrong to care about ohtani’s contract details. I want to go back to a world where this stuff isn’t news.
18 comments
> Arizona agreed to give Burnes four premium season tickets in a best-available location at no cost for all regular-season, post-season and spring training games. Burnes is allowed to purchase up two additional tickets adjacent to the team-provided seats.
However will he survive without a personal suite?
The Arizona Deferralbacks
Good for baseball?
deferrals ? hmmm …. interesting
The Dodgers are ruining baseball
Wanna be dodgers
Can’t believe the Dbacks are ruining baseball and circumventing the luxury tax.
God I’m so tired of deferrals. Like what’s the point of the luxury tax if teams can just circumvent it like this?
😱
MLB is gonna go into a financial crisis at this rate.
Wait but this doesn’t fit the narrative that it’s only the Dodgers who do this
see!! we can do deferrals too!!!
Dodger fans having a blast going “see! See!” They’re really tickling themselves and missing the point.
The deferrals themselves are only a part of the issue. It’s the richest team in the league in a highly popular place of living who’s giving every single free agent and extension massive deferrals which gives them even more spending power than they already are blessed with. They’re able to pay anybody they want to regardless anyway. Free agents are more willing to accept deferrals to live in LA and be on a team full of superstars too. Some of that stuff is unavoidable (such as LA being a sought after destination), but quit acting like it’s ridiculous for fans across the league to not like that a top 3 revenue team has signed or traded/extended for several of the biggest names in the sport. It’s ok for y’all to acknowledge that it’s not a level playing field on the FA market. No, not every market can sustain an LA or NY budget. Nobody is coming for your trophy.
Also, 1 example is not the “gotcha” y’all think it is. I expect this to be a largely hated opinion, but oh well
Q: what’s more annoying than the dodgers deferring 99% of Ohtani’s $700 million contract?
A: now seeing how much of every FA contract is deferred.
I was wrong to care about ohtani’s contract details. I want to go back to a world where this stuff isn’t news.
See what the dodgers started?
Hell yeah NLBest bros proud of you