Angels' Minton Accepts $850,000 Deal

Angels’ Minton Accepts $850,000 Deal

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Feb. 22, 1990 12 AM PT

Greg Minton, who had filed for free agency after the Angels declined to go to arbitration with him, agreed to a one-year contract with the club Wednesday.

Minton’s contract includes a base salary of $850,000, with incentive clauses worth as much as $100,000.

Minton, 38, was 4-3 with eight saves and a 2.20 earned-run average in 62 relief appearances last season. He had filed for arbitration at $1,150,000 and the Angels had offered $780,000. He earned $630,000 in salary last season and $100,000 in bonuses.

The right-handed pitcher joined the Angels as a free agent in June, 1987. He set a club record last season by pitching 105 2/3 innings without allowing a home run, a streak he started in 1988.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Angels’ Minton Accepts $850,000 Deal

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