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The MLB Salary

Posted on: December 8, 2009 by admin No Comments

It just came out in the news that the average salary of an MLB baseball player is about 3 million. Can you imagine some of these guys who can barely hit near a .200 average getting paid 3 million or more, -yikes. The Yankees, world champs of course, had an average salary of over 7.6 million. This is more than double the league average. Sure it may be hard for some to accept, but paying people millions of dollars to fail is rarely done in any other industry. Of course everyone can have a tough season now and then, but you would think at some point that part of the player’s salary would be performance based. Now there are obviously some players making near this 3 million that have gone above and beyond the average when it comes to play. More than likely they will be paid much more when their new contract comes up for negotiation.

So what do you think? Are most of the players playing worth the salaries they are being paid? How does it hurt or help the league when some teams have more than twice the money that others do? Well it sure seems like things will not be changing soon, so it looks like the huge salaries are here to stay.