Still pissed off that Roger Clemens spurned the Astros to return to the Yankees?
Don’t be.
Actually, any baseball fan already knows the Rocket sucked this year. But Darren Rovell, a sports-business reporter for CNBC, broke things down with a vengeance.
Add in the luxury tax foisted on the Yanks for their bloated payroll, and this is the return they got on the Clemens contract:
Per Pitch: $15,047
Per Inning: $245,213
Per Start: $1,375,921
Per Win: $4,127,763
A quarter-million per inning? Imagine what he’d get if he was any good. – Richard Connelly
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2007.
