Should Jeter Get Bonus $ For Hit Milestones?
An interesting point, as usual, from Tyler Kepner -
In a marketing agreement hatched as part of his contract, [Alex] Rodriguez will earn a $6 million bonus for each of five home run milestones: 660, 714, 755 and tying and breaking Barry Bonds’s record, 762. Jeter will presumably reach 3,000 hits in 2011, with a chance at 4,000 and, perhaps, at Pete Rose’s career record of 4,256. Will he ask for a similar marketing arrangement?
There’s no question, in my mind, that Jeter should ask for this too. Why not?
If I’m Jeter’s agent, I’m asking for a $6 million bonus for each of these five hit milestones: 3,000; 3,772 (most hits by a RH batter, all-time), 4,000 (being only the 3rd to reach it); 4,190 (most hits all-time in the A.L.); and 4,257 (the all-time mark).
And, the Yankees would be foolish not to give it to him – especially considering how hard the last three marks would be to reach.
Is the next contract going to be long enough for him to get to 4000? If he gets to 4000-plus in the 4 or 5 years that he’ll probably get, I’d be happy to give him $6 million for each milestone.
@ long time listener:
Good point. All depends on how many years he gets.
Didn’t Jeter’s dad have to coax him into embracing the moment of passing Gehrig as Yankee all-time hit leader?
He probably won’t want a big deal to be made of 3,000, etc. but the Yankee marketing machine will beat us over the head with it as it approaches.
You can be sure Modell’s will be selling ten different kinds of 3,000 hit commemmorative t-shirts, and Steiner Sports will be selling pebbles of authentic home plate dirt from the day for $300, so it’s understandable that DJ deserves some royalties from that.
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