Word: bonilla
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...Florida--The most openly upwardly mobile team. Spent 90 million over the winter. Alex Fernandez, Jim Leyland, Moises Alou, Bobby Bonilla, Jim Eisenreich, John Cangelosi, to go with Kevin Brown, Al Leither, Rob Nen and Gary Sheffield and Jeff Conine...
...will hurt you. I will show you the Bronx."--Bobby Bonilla, in a heated exchange with New York Daily News sports writer Bob Klapisch...
...classic small-market team," said Ted Simmons, the club's adroit general manager. "Take these four names -- Bobby Bonilla, $29 million; John Smiley, $18 million; Doug Drabek, $19 million; and Barry Bonds, $43 million. It would have added up to almost $110 million to keep them. We couldn't do it." So these days, Bonilla is a Met; Smiley hurls for the Cincinnati Reds; Drabek has jumped to his hometown team, the Houston Astros; and Bonds is a Giant, in both team and contract size. But don't hang the skull and crossbones at half-staff for the Pirates quite...
...last year. The Pirates blame this paradox largely on soaring players' salaries, which cost $24 million, or 52% of the club's revenues, last year. To make ends meet, Pittsburgh cut more than $7 million from its payroll by trading 20-game winner John Smiley and letting slugger Bobby Bonilla become a free agent...
What recession? Not in the prime-beef market of pro sports. Jordan will reap about $25 million in 1992, most of it from product plugs. Evander Holyfield earned $20 million waltzing with Foreman. Bobby Bonilla signed with the New York Mets for $29 million for five years. And Minnesota-Twin-for-a-year Morris, 36, whose won-lost record for the past four seasons is 54-57, rented his right arm to the Toronto Blue Jays; the two-year deal is worth $10.85 million. That's about $1,500 a pitch, for those of you who couldn't afford...