By Miguel Rapetti
May 28, 2024, 9:38 PM EDT
Venezuelan Ronald Acuña ended his 2024 season in the Major Leagues after suffering a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee, but that will not prevent him from earning a millionaire sum of more than $12 million dollars.
Acuña Jr.’s injury disrupted his plans to start a career to try to revalidate the Most Valuable Player award that he unanimously won in 2023, but after a slow start, 2024 closed abruptly with only 43 games played and an offensive average of .250.
However, the misfortune of not being able to play more this year will not affect his wallet where he will be one of the highest paid in all of the Major Leagues without seeing action on the diamonds.
Acuña Jr. is currently in the fourth year of the contract he signed in 2021 for eight years and $100 million dollars, in a negotiation that many have classified as hasty and that has already been “justified” thanks to his actions in the following years. .
Thanks to this, during the 2024 season he will earn a total of $17 million insured dollars, of which for the 43 games he played he has already earned $4,512,345.67 dollars.
For this reason, it is expected that the Braves star will be able to add a total of $12,487,654 dollars to his coffers for the rest of the 119 games that his team will play in the regular season, with an average per game of $104,938.27 per game.
Although there have been intentions on Acuña’s part to sign a new contract with Braves, which has not been approved by the team’s board, he will now have to wait to see how his injury progresses.
If a new future negotiation is not agreed upon with the Braves, Acuña will be a restricted free agent in 2027 and a free agent at the end of 2028, with these last two years being a player option.
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