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Article: Bosox Garciaparra OK With Contract
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- February 20, 2001
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HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
02-20-2001
Bosox Garciaparra OK With Contract
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Nomar Garciaparra could have complained. He could have demanded publicly that the Boston Red Sox rework his contract after Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter got theirs.
Instead, one of the AL's top three shortstops showed no bitterness about the huge, long-term deals the other two received.
``My reaction was, when I go out with those guys they're buying dinner,'' Garciaparra said Tuesday with a laugh.
His $6.85 million salary this season is about a third of the $21 million Rodriguez will make and over half of the $11 million salary Jeter gets under their new 10-year contracts.
But ...