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An Old Friend wrote: ↑24 Apr 2025 22:55 pm His salary is $1MM in 2025 and got a $3MM signing bonus - so $4MM total comp in 2025. Then it’s $19MM in 2026.

So he’s going to make in 2 years what he could’ve made in 1 and hit the free agent market younger.

He’s been fantastic early. If he keeps it up, he probably cost himself $45MM or more by passing up the QO.

Quincy Varnish wrote: ↑25 Apr 2025 02:32 am

An Old Friend wrote: ↑24 Apr 2025 22:55 pm His salary is $1MM in 2025 and got a $3MM signing bonus - so $4MM total comp in 2025. Then it’s $19MM in 2026.

So he’s going to make in 2 years what he could’ve made in 1 and hit the free agent market younger.

He’s been fantastic early. If he keeps it up, he probably cost himself $45MM or more by passing up the QO.

You are either dreadfully confused by the topic at hand, or are under the influence of terrible math.

You are suggesting that Pivetta’s salary is $1M? Sorry, that’s clown school bull[shirt] that should shut down any forward conversation. If you’re going to equate diminishing marginal utility with actual salary, it’s a disingenuous argument from the start.

Pivetta will receive a $3MM signing bonus, then make a salary of just $1MM this year, followed by salaries of $19MM, $14MM and $18MM in the next three years.

another illustration of why Pivetta has been the early bargain of the year. In spring training, the Padres signed the veteran to a four-year, $55 million contract that includes a $3 million signing bonus and only a $1 million salary in 2025