It’s baseball award season and time for bonuses to be paid out.  They announced the American League Rawling’s Gold Glove winners today and a few of them made extra scratch for doing what they’re already paid to do.  Here’s the run down:

Mark Buehrle:  $25,000

Joe Mauer:  $25,000

Mark Teixeira:  none

Placido Polanco:  $25,000

Derek Jeter:  none

Evan Longoria:  $25,000

Torii Hunter:  $100,000

Adam Jones:  none

Ichiro Suzuki:  $50,000

Jones is young and assuming that his agents at JR Sports do their job correctly, he’ll probably get a Gold Glove award bonus in his 2010 contract.  He has a $25,000 All Star selection bonus in his 2009 contract.

I was looking over the Yankee contracts and no current Yankee has a Gold Glove bonus.  Maybe it’s Yankee policy to not give out a bonus for something they are expected to do.  Or maybe it’s because they are already giving them dump trucks full of cash.  Although Alex Rodriguez’s contract does have milestone bonuses based on how many home runs he hits in a Yankee’s uniform and other award bonuses such as most All Star votes, no current Yankee has bonus for their defensive work.

Wednesday is the Senior Circuit’s turn to get their Gold Gloves.  MLB.com already predicts Jimmy Rollins, Brandon Philips and Yadier Molina as 2010 winners.