$[$Related to Solved Problem $3\mathrm{.}1$B$]$ Baseball pitcher Chris Sale signed a contract in $2019$ to play for the Boston Red Sox for $5$ years at an annual salary of $$29$ million per year beginning in $2020$ But he would not actually receive the full amount of his annual salary each year. The Red Sox would not begin to pay $$50$ million of his salary until the year $2035,$ when he would receive $$10$ million per year through $2039.$

An article on eson com discussina Sale's mntract nnter that "the five$-$year deal is worth $$145$ mulion." The author of the article arrived at this total "worth" of Sale's contract by

Do you agree with the author that the contract was actually worth $$145$ million to Sale?

The author is $,$ the total worth of Sale's contract will be $$145$ million once you consider the present value of all future payments.