Carlton Fisk became the highest-paid catcher in...
Carlton Fisk became the highest-paid catcher in American League history, agreeing to a complicated one-year contract worth about $1.3 million.
He will get $400,000 in 1989 and an additional $1.632 million in deferred income without interest. The deferred payments are worth about $900,000 when discounted to present-day value.
Fisk, 40, had originally asked for $1.45 million and the White Sox had offered $1.2 million.
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