"As Jorge Arangure, Jr. wrote Monday, Aroldis Chapman is likely to lose as much as $3 million in taxes now that he's almost certain to not receive any pay for the year 2009.
Had Chapman signed a week ago and received his signing bonus, only his salary would have been taxable because he would not have actually worked in the U.S. until 2010. Now he will have signed and worked in the same year, which would cost him $2-3 million in taxes if he were to accept an offer similar to the one made by the Boston Red Sox of $15 million (ESPN)."
Since there are only a couple days left in the year I highly doubt that Chapman could get all the paper work done even if he wanted to. As of right now, the Sox have the highest known offer, and though I think the Yankees will jump in, I think Boston will end up with this guy. I don't mind the Sox spending money on this guy, even though he is very raw, because I have faith the in the Sox farm system. They have done a nice job developing guys like Buchholz, Bard, Lester, Papelbon, ect.
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