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sufferforsnakes
Tribe needs to lock up Lindor early.
jdgoat
Ya he is going to get PAID if he hits the open market. Luckily for you that won’t be for a few years
Brixton
Small error, but Franco is 24, not 22.
baseball10
I thought that looked odd. Franco gets overlooked a lot as a solid hitter
MateoM1955
Given that baseball is a 9 billion dollar industry, these guys are way underpaid.
stryk3istrukuout
Okay, but there’s, what, 1000 players in the league? That’s 9 million per player. The guys above are underpaid relative to their ability, but there is a reason there is a pay scale. Still, these guys already earn twice that of a president’s yearly salary and most doctors and lawyers.
davidcoonce74
To be fair, the President’s salary is set by congress and people don’t pay to watch doctors and lawyers do their jobs.
JrodFunk5
Also if you compare ALL baseball players to ALL doctors, there likely isn’t much of a discrepancy. For every major leaguer there are 5-10 minor leaguers making next to nothing. I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s the way it is. Side note, this may be the first time I’ve ever heard a complaint about athletes making more than lawyers.
stymeedone
Maybe you should buy the industry and then pay them what they are worth. The Garment Industry is larger and many of their workers work harder and longer (at much younger ages) and get paid at less than a living wage. But please, YOU take the soap box for the future millionaires.
Dominic 2
Nice try
stymeedone
It’s scary how many of the future “stars” have come up to the big leagues with no idea of how to take a walk, and strike out rates that would make Chris Carter proud. I do understand that once these players start the clock ticking in the bigs, they only have 6 years before they are gone, but shouldn’t that inspire the team to make sure the player is ready before starting that clock? They can also be in the minors for up to 6 years. I’d much rather see my team bring up a more “developed” prospect at 25, than a raw prospect at 23. I don’t understand why so many players get rushed. Gordon Beckham and Dustin Ackley may well have become stars if they had time in the minors to develop.
dshires4
While you are correct in that organizations should be wary of rushing their prospects, Ackley probably isn’t a good example. He had a fantastic rookie campaign, but had his swing messed with upon entering his sophomore year. I won’t blame position changes with him. The Mariners just screwed with an already functional swing too many times.
brandons-3
The current regime has done a great job for Seattle, but man did they miss/not develop correctly on some top three draft picks (Ackley, Hultzen, Zunino) that could have set their team up big time.
Priggs89
Gordon Beckham was not rushed. He was fully ready to be a major league player and was far from a raw prospect. His problem was/is that he couldn’t make the necessary adjustments once major league pitchers started learning his tendencies. OPS’ing .900 in the minors for a couple years would NOT have helped him adjust to big league pitching. At some point, these top end prospects have to experience failure and learn how to deal with it. For a high quality, developed college prospect like Beckham, that was always going to come at the major league level.
And even if you do think he was rushed, he’s a pretty poor example of what you’re describing. He slashed .270/.347/.460 in 103 games his rookie year with a 41/65 BB/K.
Deke
I think most players are happy they get paid to play a game for a living. Yeah they want to get paid as much as possible because they can use that money to setup future generations. Many like to do charity work so again more money means they can help more people. I’m sure there are some greedy jerks there too.
One other thing, a lot of players see salary as just another competition and they want to be the “best paid at their position” and others see it as a respect thing. Finally the higher paid you are, the more job security you have. Look at Sandoval. If he wasn’t earning so much money he would have been DFAed. The team kept him, he worked really hard and looks like he’s back better than ever (maybe).
All in all it’s #firstworldproblems and it’s fun for us to talk about when we pay $80 for that crappy seat to watch the game.