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FALLEN

ANGELS

Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout
runs the bases after a double
against the Seattle Mariners
during the third inning of a
baseball game in Anaheim,
Calif., Sunday, April 21, 2019.
Associted Press
APNewsBreak:

2019 MLB

Payrolls

drop due

to signing

bonuses

By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Big
deals for Bryce Harper,
Mike Trout and others that
included large signing
bonuses masked an oth-
erwise flat market for the
second straight offseason
that caused Major League
Baseball’s opening-day
payrolls to drop by $43 mil-
lion for 2019.
Payrolls, however, rose by
$131 million when using the
averages of multiyear con-
tracts. Following a winter in
which many journeymen
took cuts, a string of stars Angels let 14-inning game
signed huge long-term
deals during March and
April. Since the end of last slip away in loss to Yankees
season, teams agreed to
a record $4.195 billion in
guarantees beyond 2019,
breaking the previous Los Angeles Angels’ Zack Cozart, right, is checked on by
mark for out-year commit- New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres after
ments of $3.414 billion set Cozart was injured while sliding into second on a single by
following the 2013 season, Brian Goodwin during the 12th inning of a baseball game
according to figures com-
piled by the commission- Monday, April 22, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif.
er’s office and obtained by Associated Press
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