The Benefits Of Baseball Salaries

Thus is the nature of baseball, a fickle game wrought with tradition, the foremost of which is the iron clad law mandating that the game is cruel and will take away as freely as it gives. My father always told me, “Baseball is a game of errors - the best hitters fail seven out of ten times - the key to success is knowing how to deal with the failure.” It is this aspect of the game, its want to frustrate and demoralize the player, that I think has driven most of my

Because of the occurrence of free agents, the average contract doubled from $51,000 to $100,000 and the regular season winning percentage of the “New York Yankees” increased as the payroll increased. From 1990 to 1991, the firms broke from the cartel and the average Major League Baseball salary rose from $578,930 to $891,188. And from 1995 to 2000, the “New York Yankees” was one of the most dominant teams, remaining competitive. Average salary had a 5200% increase from 1975 to 2002 and revenues increased from $6.4 million to $119 million during this period. Also, the baseball teams started to use media as advertising to attract more fans to come to watch their games.

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run”(Babe Ruth). I was wondering how much baseball really affected my life and the choices I make. The answer is a lot, and it still continues to leave a mark on this life I love. Over the many years of my involvement in the game I have learned that life is full of ups and downs. Baseball teaches people to bounce back from negatives, this I believe.

Players that are in the pros make the big bucks. Some of the top notch players in each sport make millions and millions of dollars. For instance Albert Pujols plays baseball and is arguably the best player to play the game right now and signed a 9 year contract that is worth over 200 million dollars! Football fight to get bigger salaries because they feel the need to get paid more since they have a greater risk of getting injured. Baseball the players don’t argue as much as football players when it comes to salary.

Twenty-five million dollars made per year. Over one hundred fifty-four thousand dollars made per game. Over forty-seven thousand dollars earned per at bat. Sounds a little ridiculous, does it not? That is what current Texas Ranger shortstop Alex Rodriguez earns to play the game of baseball (azcentral.com). Baseball is a game that children have been playing in schoolyards and fields for the past one hundred years. It may not be a game anymore. On the Major League level it has become a business. This is where the problem starts.

Once again the speaker connects baseball to something greater than itself through his diction–‒this time it is a father’s advice to his son. By repeatedly

The fans that come to watch the athletes and who pay nearly $20 to get in the ballpark are padding the pockets of these owners. Statistics taken from online site http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001 /03/30/news/baseball/ show that baseball ticket prices have gone up from $16.67 to $18.99 in just one year. A quote from the same online site http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/03/30/news /baseball/ wrote by Chris Isidore says, "Baseball fans going through the turnstiles on opening day across the nation Monday will be paying about 13 percent more than they did last year, according to a survey of prices…The increase makes baseball the sport with the fastest growing prices." Baseball in the United States is no longer America's Pastime. Baseball has changed to a high priced business, where average players make millions and above average players make tens of millions. To make the situation even worse, the dumbfounded owners and greedy sports agents who contaminate the game and the talented young athletes playing in it, control this business.

Every sports team/organization operates the same when it comes to salaries some players get paid more than others and salaries fluctuate based on the economy. In the 1920s the average monthly salary for a Negro baseball player was about $230 which is about $2,760 annually. Whereas in the 1920s the average annual salary for a major league player was about $5,000 to $6,000. Then the dreaded 1930s hit the decade of depression. Despite the failing economy baseball was and is America's pastime and is always popular among the people. People would always manage to go see a baseball game every now and then. This would allow for an average annual salary increase of about $1000 from about $5000-$6000 to $7000. It obviously made sense that as the economy is failing salaries would start to decrease. Of course they did Negro baseball players monthly salary went down from $230 to $170. Which would be $2,040 annually about $720 less than the previous

Major League Baseball players average just over four million a year making it the second highest paying sport. Players determine win-loss records which drives ticket sales which creates revenue and so on. This is why player salaries is one of the most critical aspects of running a MLB team. These salaries are negotiated using statistics such as batting average, on base percentage, hits and more. When negotiations are not working, an arbitration process is used which is unique to the MLB.

Although baseball athletes work very hard when they're playing the game, It's very wrong that the managers pay the players that sit on the bench all year long and pay them over 7 million dollars a game. Some of the players on the bench don’t deserve to get that much money, when there are starving and poor kids that live outside.

In addition to the subject of money, Major League Baseball players, on average, make very good money. Looking back to before 1970, the average salary was only about $30,000. Twenty years later it was $500,000 and by the year 2000, the salary rose to $1.5 million, all the way up to now where the average salary in the major leagues is $4 million (Berg). With an average salary this high, even the backup players and those who do not possess once-in-a-generation talents, can make a very good living without ever stepping on the field. Another perk of being a Major League Baseball player is that they are allowed $100.50 in meal money when on the road (Berg). One can assume from a fact such as this that even in the midst of long road trips, which can be three or four games per series and could possibly have several of them in a row, that they eat well which helps keep up their energy levels for trips like

As a result, baseball players earn $3 million per year. First, I think that’s too expensive since they just throw a ball around and run to the bases. They are working extra effort every day to achieve this goal, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be that much. Baseball players should just obtain $2 million per year instead of 3 million per

The Major League Baseball (MLB) organization is a group of baseball teams that have made it to the Major League. The Major League Baseball data set provides the 2005 salaries of multiple Major League Baseball (MLB) teams as well as individual salaries of players within 30 teams (Lind, Marchal & Wathen, 2008). The MLB data set gives information such as batting averages, wins, salaries, home runs, errors, etc (Lind, Marchal & Wathen, 2008). Two specific teams stand out of the information when looking at their stats; St. Louis and Kansas City. These two teams are drastically different; one has the most wins out of the MLB data set, and the other has the least wins. With St. Louis and Kansas City both being in the major league,

The reason MLB players make so much is because there are 162 games per team a season not including the playoffs. Where as in the NFL there are only 16 games not including the playoffs. With baseball players playing multiple games per week & football players playing one or two games a week but usually one the money start to add up. It has also been argued that college athletes should be paid for what they do. While the NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes getting paid. However, that does not stop some players from getting money. Houston Texans running back Arian Foster came out and said in an interview that while playing football at Tennessee he took money on the side because he didn’t have enough money to eat. “My senior year I was getting money on the side.”- Arian Foster. “I really didn’t have any money. I had to either pay rent or buy some food.”- Arian Foster Also just last season Texas A&M Quarterback Johnny Manziel was put under investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for supposedly receiving money for a large amount of autographed memorabilia that he signed. The NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes receiving money.

“There is always room for Improvement.”, “good things come to those willing to work for it.”. When I was little I used to play softball. I started to play for fun, something to do on my down time since living on a dead end dirt road with four houses vacated by old people with no younger kids to play with got pretty boring. This was my way to simply meet new kids and have fun outside but it ended up turning in to so much more. I played season after season getting progressively better and better. I would spend hours outside with my dad after games and after practices and on off days just throwing the ball back and forth and practicing my batting stance on my little tee in my yard. We would throw until we couldn’t see the ball anymore because the sun had gone down and the sky turned dark. Even then, my dad would have to argue with me to come inside because I just wanted to keep practicing. I had a team to be better for, I wanted to be the best one out there and I wanted to feel the thrill of winning. I wanted to make my friends proud, my coaches proud, my parents proud and most importantly myself proud. There was no better feeling then seeing your hard work put in to action. The best way I can describe winning, is just an overwhelming feeling on pride, there is a certain fullness you feel, and once you feel it you never want to let it go. every time I did good I wanted to push myself harder so I could feel the thrill again, and every time I didn’t perform up to