NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Yoenis Céspedes’ salary for 2019 was cut in half and his pay for 2020 reduced as part of a settlement of a grievance between the injured outfielder and the New York Mets.
Céspedes agreed to a $110 million, four-year contract in December 2016 but hasn’t played since July 20, 2018. The outfielder had surgery to remove bone calcification from his right heel on Aug. 2, 2018, and his left that Oct. 26.
Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, Céspedes’ former agent, said in late May the outfielder sustained multiple right ankle fractures in an accident at Céspedes’ ranch in Port St.