German has 63 games left on his 81 games suspension after breaking Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy late in the 2019 season. He won’t be allowed to participate in Spring Training 2, and he will also miss the entirety of the shorted 2020 regular season.
According to Randy Miller of NJ Advanced Media, not only will German lose playing time, he also forfeits his entire 2020 salary. German had previously agreed to a one-year contract in March of 2020 according to Cot’s Baseball but their are no specifics on the dollar amount. We can estimate that with two plus years of services time under his belt, German is giving up between $600,000 and $650,000 based on is $577,500 2019 salary.