Stu Sternberg awarded Rays employees with significant bonuses after selling the team: Sources Stu Sternberg maintained low payrolls as the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays. He fru strated fans, government officials and even Major League Baseball with his failu re to get a new ballpark built. But past and present Rays employees always swore by him, praising him for his integrity, passion and treatment of others. 身为坦帕湾光芒队的老板，Stu Sternberg 一直维持着低团队薪资，他因无法让新球场落成 而令球迷、政府官员，甚至美国职棒大联盟感到不满，不过，无论是现任还是前任的光芒队 员工，始终对他推崇备至，赞扬他的诚信、热情与待人之道 In his final act with the Rays, Sternberg outdid himself. 而在他为光芒做的最後一件事中，Stu Sternberg 再次超越了自己 After completing the $1.7 billion sale of the club to an ownership group led by developer Patrick Zalupski, Sternberg awarded cash bonuses to every full-time me mber of the organization, more than 500 employees in all. 在把球队正式以 17 亿美元将出售给由开发商 Patrick Zalupski领导的团体後，Sternberg 向全队超过500 名全职员工发放奖金 The bonuses were tenure-based, according to sources briefed on how the money was distributed. Some longstanding employees, including scouts and minor-league coa ches who spent more than a decade with the club, received a full year’s salary. 根据知情人士透露，这些奖金是依员工年资发放的，一些服务球队超过十年的资深员工，包 括球探与小联盟教练，甚至获得相当於一整年薪资的奖金 The total payout by Sternberg was in the tens of millions, sources said. The low est bonuses were believed to be in the $25,000 to $50,000 range. 消息人士指出，Sternberg 的总共发出的金额达到数千万美元，而最低的奖金也被认为落在 2.5 万至 5 万美元之间 Under Sternberg, the Rays played in two World Series, losing in 2008 and 2020, a nd made nine trips to the postseason, including five straight from 2019 to 2023. Their payrolls always ranked in the bottom 10 and often in the bottom five, but they were one of the game’s most innovative franchises. 在Sternberg时代，光芒队曾两度打进世界大赛，分别在 2008 年与 2020 年；球队总共九 度打进季後赛，其中包括 2019 年到 2023 年连续五年的晋级 尽管球队的团队薪资始终名列全联盟倒数十名，甚至常常落在後五名之列，但光芒队却是大 联盟中最具创新精神的球团之一 Four current heads of baseball operations around the league came from the Rays, not including their own top executive, Erik Neander, who has been with the team for 19 seasons and in his current position for the past nine years. 目前全联盟有四支球队的棒棒球事务部门负责人出身自光芒体系，这还不包括光芒现任高层 Erik Neander——他已在球团服务 19 个球季，并担任现职长达 9 年 The Milwaukee Brewers’ Matt Arnold, Miami Marlins’ Peter Bendix, St. Louis Car dinals’ Chaim Bloom and Los Angeles Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman all had roots wit h Tampa Bay, as did former Houston Astros general manager James Click, currently in the Toronto Blue Jays’ front office. 密尔瓦基酿酒人的Matt Arnold、迈阿密马林鱼的 Peter Bendix、圣路易红雀的Chaim Bloo m，以及洛杉矶道奇的 Andrew Friedman，都是在坦帕湾光芒起步；前休士顿太空人总经理 、现任多伦多蓝鸟球团高层的 James Click也同样出身光芒系统 The Rays were also the team that gave Joe Maddon his first chance to manage in t he majors. Kevin Cash took over after Maddon left for the Chicago Cubs in Octobe r 2014, and Cash is now the longest-tenured manager in the majors. 光芒队同时也是让 Joe Maddon 首次在大联盟执教的球队，在他於2014年10月转投芝加哥小 熊後，由 Kevin Cash 接任总教练，而 Cash 目前已是全大联盟任期最长的现任教头 https://reurl.cc/mYgW3V --

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