After taking plate appearance No. 600 on Sunday, David Ortiz‘s 2016 salary has now maxed out at a value of $16MM. The slugger first got his option to vest for 2016 at a value of $11MM when he reached 425 plate appearances back in August. Since then, however, he has boosted that total by $1MM each time he hit 475, 500, 525, 575, and 600 PAs, respectively.
Ortiz, 40 in November, hasn’t slowed down much in his old age. After an up-and-down first half of the season, Ortiz has turned it up to bring his slash line to .