Ailing A-Rod Will Make More Than the Astros
Ronald Blum
Associated Press / Courier Post
March 29, 2013
Alex Rodriguez is set to make $29 Million dollars this season making him the highest paid player in the league for the 13th straight season. $29 Million dollars is more than the $25 Million of the entire starting line up for the Houston Astros. Major League Baseball is the only professional league where there is no spending cap for franchises which in turn allows teams to pay players any amount of money they please. The MLB makes up for smaller market or struggling teams with a luxury tax for any team with revenues over $100 Million dollars such as the Yankees, Red Sox, and Tigers. The Yankees again opened this season for 15th in a row for the highest payroll in the league. The top 10 highest paid players in the MLB will make in excess of $20 Million dollars. Even with the lack of production in recent years from Alex Rodriquez will still be the highest paid player all because of the contract he signed nearly a decade ago.
Alex Rodriguez surprisingly doesn't even hail in comparison to some of the highest paid athletes such as Floyd Mayweather ($85M), Manny Paquio ($62M), Tiger Woods ($59M) and LeBron James ($53M). A question that seems to be asked frequently when people see the numbers these teams throw around to have the best of the best on the field, when will the god like salaries reach the maximum. The answer to that may be once ticket prices become un affordable for the general public. When you see major multi million dollar contracts being signed the money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is usually in raising the price of tickets to offset the contract. Also a better stat to throw in the mix is the President of the United States of America is set to make his annual salary of $475 thousand dollars which is less than 3/4 of MLB salaries, does anyone see a problem with that?
Alex Rodriguez surprisingly doesn't even hail in comparison to some of the highest paid athletes such as Floyd Mayweather ($85M), Manny Paquio ($62M), Tiger Woods ($59M) and LeBron James ($53M). A question that seems to be asked frequently when people see the numbers these teams throw around to have the best of the best on the field, when will the god like salaries reach the maximum. The answer to that may be once ticket prices become un affordable for the general public. When you see major multi million dollar contracts being signed the money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is usually in raising the price of tickets to offset the contract. Also a better stat to throw in the mix is the President of the United States of America is set to make his annual salary of $475 thousand dollars which is less than 3/4 of MLB salaries, does anyone see a problem with that?
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