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Originally Posted by myasu
But Drew is a 32 year old veteran who earns $14M this year, where Lester is a 24 year old, who had to come back to the field through the battle against cancer, and earns probably less than 5% of what Drew receives this year.
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Drew takes a lot of **** for very little reason.
The comparison in salaries isn't really applicable because Drew is beyond his arby years... Lester doesn't have a choice but to earn the ~$400k he gets this year. An average MLB player on the free agent market makes about $11-12M a year at this point so to live up to that contract, Drew would have to be simply above average.
I give him a pass for his first half because he was going through some serious **** with his son's health. Stuff that people in normal jobs would probably take work off as long as it wasn't necessary for them to make that money. The second half of the season he put up about a 280/400/440 line. The average RFer in the MLB last season put up a 273/347/429 (.271 EQA). Clearly he's WELL above average for a RFer.
Even considering his subpar first half which brought his numbers down to a 270/373/423 (.282 EQA), he earned his money last year. JD Drew takes more undeserved **** than any player in this city and it drives me ****ing crazy.