Alright, so you wanna know about this Ken Griffey Junior fella and how much money he’s got, huh? Well, lemme tell ya, that fella, they call him “The Kid”, he ain’t doin’ too bad for himself. Folks say he’s sittin’ on a pile of cash, somethin’ like ninety million dollars. Ninety million! Can you even imagine? That’s a whole lotta chickens, let me tell ya.
Now, how’d he get all that money? Well, he played that baseball game, you know, the one with the bats and balls? He was real good at it, real good. Hit them balls a country mile, they say. Folks would come from all over just to watch him swing that bat. Made a whole heap of money doin’ that.
- He played for a long, long time, see. Over twenty years! That’s a lot of games, a lot of hits, and a lot of paychecks.
- And it wasn’t just the playin’, ya know. He had these things called “endorsements.” That’s when them big companies pay ya to say you like their stuff. Like them fancy shoes or them drinks they sell. He got paid a bunch for that too.
They say he made over one hundred and seventy-two million dollars just from playin’ ball over all them years. Can you believe that? And then there was this deal he made, somethin’ about gettin’ paid later. See, some of that money, he didn’t get right away. They held onto it for him, like puttin’ it in a jar for a rainy day, and gave him extra money for waitin’. Just today, they gave him the last of it, a big ol’ chunk of change, somethin’ like three and a half million dollars. That’s more money than most folks see in a lifetime, I tell ya.
This “deferral agreement” thing, they called it. Sounded fancy, but it just meant he got paid later. It was for sixteen years, and the whole thing was worth fifty-seven and a half million dollars. Plus, they gave him four percent interest, which is like gettin’ extra money just for waitin’. It helped the Reds, that’s the team he played for, spend more money on other players at the time. Smart fellas, them baseball owners.
He was a real star, this Griffey fella. People loved watchin’ him. He had this smooth way of hittin’ the ball, folks tried to copy it, but nobody could do it just like him. He hit six hundred and thirty home runs! That’s a lot of balls flyin’ outta the park, let me tell you. And he was good at catchin’ them balls too, didn’t just stand around waitin’ for the ball to come to him.
Now, some other fellas in baseball, they got money too. Like this Bud Selig fella. They say he’s got four hundred million dollars. But that’s different, see. He was one of them boss fellas, not a player. Griffey, he earned his money swingin’ that bat and runnin’ around them bases. Hard work, that is.
So there ya have it. Ken Griffey Junior, worth about ninety million dollars. Made it all from playin’ baseball and tellin’ folks what kinda shoes to wear. He’s set for life, that’s for sure. Probably eatin’ steak every night and never has to worry about the price of eggs. Good for him, I say. He worked hard for it.
Tags: Ken Griffey Jr., Net Worth, Baseball, MLB, Salary, Endorsements, Deferral Agreement, Cincinnati Reds, The Kid, Bud Selig
