Baseball Players Make Too Much Money for One Season

Some baseball players are making money in the stands of $20 million per year. No matter how good the player is, that type of money is far too much. With that type of money, you wonder how is this going on? Who is exactly to blame for making such an offer? Can the players be blamed for accepting such an offer? While it can't be blamed on them, part of that blame has to go to the owners who spend that type of money like crazy. For instance, originally the Texas Rangers made a 10-year contract worth $252 million, about $25.2 million a year in approximation, was given to Alex Rodriguez. Now he currently plays for the Yankees but as good as he can hit, he is not worth $25.2 million a season assuming that this is the exact salary paid each year. At this moment, the contract is almost up and got a few more seasons and maybe a lesson will be taught not to go to a ridiculous amount for any player. If a price is that high to obtain a player, then it just shows greed.

Another player but this one is with the New York Yankees is Derek Jeter. He is earning about $20 million a year in average with his contract. As good as he has played for this team and has helped them with the World Series, that contract is ridiculous and far too high in my own personal opinion.

Mainly it is known that the bigger markets have offered such contracts and it continues to be a trend. While Boston may not be at the level of New York in terms of market, they did give Manny Ramirez an 8 year $160 million contract, averaging out to be $20 million a season. While it can't be faulted for that type of offer that the player it accepts, it could also be faulted for now basically setting a possible tone for players to get the big bucks like the $20 million a year and higher. Currently, no player has gone up to averaging $30 million a season and hopefully that doesn't happen anytime soon.

With markets like in New York, they can offer such a deal and it is sometimes higher than a team with an extremely small market playing their players, what does that tells you? It means that the small market teams are poor and continues to bridge the gap even further between the two sides. While it won't be possible to have them even unless there is a salary cap, it does not mean that every player has to go to the largest markets in Major League Baseball. Of course, there may be other factors like agents that could very get negotiation to go that high for a player to be signed to any team. Does that also play a factor in something like this? It probably does to some degree but as for how much, probably on a team-to-team basis since each team has their own policy and their own thing going on exactly.

In order for baseball players to not receive such ridiculous amounts of money a season, the only solution is a baseball salary cap. It would mean like in the NFL that a team is allowed to spend so much money and make the cap each season. It doesn't have to be a real low cap but it could be something reasonable like $75 million for each team. That however would not include bonuses so that could be the big loophole that exists. That probably would be something the Players Union to make sure would happen. Are their owners who want a salary cap? To some degree, the lower market groups want to see a cap so they can keep their players and are able to be competitive with the higher market teams taking their best players away. Of course, the highest markets will oppose it due to the fact they want to keep it that way and it has more of a personal choice on who the team signs for and they want to continue offering the huge money. Most likely nothing will ever get done about it because the high market owners don't want to give their money to lower market teams. The Players Union will want to keep the cap away so the players can make insane amounts of money. Time will tell but hopefully no player makes it to $30 million a season. That is just too much money given to a player for a single season.