Baseballstjernen Gerrit Cole has written a big contract with the New York Yankees.
It is the second largest contract in american baseballhistorie ever.
Stephen Strasburg was named MVP, as the Washington Nationals won the World Series last fall. On Monday, he was rewarded with a new seven-year contract with a value of more than 1.6 billion Danish kroner.
It was the largest contract for a pitcher ever. A record that only was allowed to stand in less than 24 hours.
on Tuesday signed 29-year old Gerrit Cole, who is the pitcher for the New York Yankees, namely a contract for the next nine years to a value of 324 million u.s. dollars, equivalent to a staggering 2.2 billion Danish crowns, according to ESPN.
If you cut it completely out of cardboard, it does according to CBS the following (if Gerrit Cole player all 1458 matches in the base game of the next nine years):
the Gerrit Cole will get the 7.4 million Danish crowns for each match he plays, 1.1 million dollars per inning and 62,500 crowns, every time he throws the ball.
the Contract of 2.2 billion crowns means that Gerrit Cole costs almost as much as it did to build the entire Angel Stadium in Anaheim outside Los Angeles, believes ESPNs Alden Gonzalez. Angel Stadium is hjemmebanearena for the Los Angeles Angels, which, together with the Los Angeles Dodgers also tried to get the Gerrit Coles signature.
the Gerrit Cole was the best season of his career, as he snapped several klubrekorder, as he led the Houston Astros to the World Series for the second time in three years. Astros lost to the Washington Nationals after seven matches. Cole also managed to win 25 straight games as a pitcher during the season.
“A season, as he has had in 2019, are not seen often,” writes MLB Stats about Gerrit Cole.
the New York Yankees have confirmed kæmpehandlen.
Gerrit Coles contract, as written, only the second in MLB history. In the spring signed Bryce Harper to a 13-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, which gave the 27-year old 330 million u.s. dollars, equivalent to 2.3 billion Danish kroner.
