Five Minnesota Twins Earned Bonuses for Their 2024 Performances

Congratulations to these fine performers. This list makes it clear what the core of the team is at this time, besides our two handsomely paid faces of the team. The bonuses should, indeed, lend a little sparkle to the holidays for the deserving players.

These guys all definitely earned it. Trading away any one of these guys would be idiotic.

I somewhat understand the economics behind the salaries, but it still strikes me as a bit odd that the MLB minimum for one year is about half of a very good blue collar workers entire career.

Each team contributes equally to the pool. The Twins did not get back what they put in. It is great for the players that got the money. 

Love to see some more of our young guys perform well enough to earn this in 2025. Our season depends on it.

1 hour ago, stringer bell said:

Sim gets some money, but Royce doesn't--a little surprised by that.

Curious why this was surprising to you. 

Interesting seeing Raley on that list.  Do you remember, Seth, that unbelievable season he had at Rochester back whenever?  Or was it a part of a season?

When I think about how good Jax and Ober were, gotta feel they got shortchanged.  They had to be every bit as good as several of those guys around $1M.

3 hours ago, Heiny said:

I somewhat understand the economics behind the salaries, but it still strikes me as a bit odd that the MLB minimum for one year is about half of a very good blue collar workers entire career.

You should learn about minor league salaries then. That's the more appropriate comparison. 

2 hours ago, saviking said:

PERFORMANCE BASED PAY .. Well, there's an idea. Why doesn't every player get paid based on performance? Give everyone a base salary and pay them on performance based on everyone else.  

Naw, that would make too much sense ..

Is that how your job works? You get 10% of your salary guaranteed and then everything else is performance based? 

2 hours ago, bean5302 said:

Average US blue collar worker makes $50k a year in current dollars.
avg. blue collar 45 years of work = 2.25MM.
HVAC industry more like $3MM+
an electrician, more like $4MM+

Studies on household income level "happiness" is reached between $80-100k-ish per year on average as I recall.

You're in the ballpark if you're in a blue collar skilled trade. Food industry is the lowest, skilled trades in construction/housing in the middle, with maintaining expensive equipment being the high end. In general from what I've seen.

Are you saying that people only need to work for 45 years now. When I was a .....

16 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

Are you saying that people only need to work for 45 years now. When I was a .....

assuming that you start professional work at 18, that means retiring at 63. Which certainly used to be pretty normal and it would be awfully nice if people didn't have to desperately keep hanging on for 5-7 more years so that they don't go broke in retirement. Especially for people working blue collar jobs which generally have physical demands that make it exceptionally hard for folks to keep working well into their 60's.

On 12/14/2024 at 9:50 AM, saviking said:

PERFORMANCE BASED PAY .. Well, there's an idea. Why doesn't every player get paid based on performance? Give everyone a base salary and pay them on performance based on everyone else.  

Naw, that would make too much sense ..

That would change the while league. Might be an interesting change!!

I'm happy for Joe Ryan. Sometimes I think that he's under appreciated. I'm looking forward to him pitching a no hitter someday. He's capable of pitching a gem. Give that Deadhead some more money  & eventually Twins fans will be Dancin' in the Streets!