Are the players in Major League Baseball acturally worth the money?

Question

Are the baseball players worth of to 25 million dollars i mean come on the players in the NFL in there games they get hit really hard knocked to the ground flipped slamed to the ground hit in the air helmet torn off they should get paid more than alex rodiquez i mean he gets paid to just hit the ball football players acturally have to slam into eachother they are worth it not baseball players is it worth it to see baseball players hit the ball when football players destroy eachother and should get paid more?

Answer 1

I personally believe that sports players of every type should have a salary cap. It is getting outrageous that salaries that they are pulling in. Baseball, football, hockey, etc., all salaries should stop at some point!

Answer 2

It depends on what you mean when you say if they're worth money. The ball club has financial people that calculate how much they can pay these players. The unfortunate part is that they afford these players by raising ticket prices and concession prices. From a financial standpoint it is worth it to hire these players because they sell more tickets, but it comes at the fans expense.

Football players absolutley are putting up more risk. Football doens't have guarnteed money like baseball does. The only thing that football players are assured is their signing bonus.

Answer 3

I dont see how you could pick one of those. They are all such great perks of being a major league ball player. Ill pick the three i would want the most, which is Stories, Playing, and Dollars. I love telling stories, when a plan goes wrong i always prefer it that way because it results in a great story. I cant imagine the amazing stories these guys get with their career. Playing would be great too. It kind of associates with teammates, because thats what would make playing so awesome. Going head to head against and with some of the greatest athletes in the world would be very cool. And i'd be lying if i didnt say dollars, because money is just so great :D

Answer 4

This is not a matte of opinion but one of economics. Of course Big league players are worth the money, because the owner wouldn't pay them if the players weren't making money for the owners.It's as simple as free market economics.

All athletes make a choice of what sports they play. Football players might, and I emphasize might, have to work harder for their money, but they only play 16 games. A baseball player plays 162. It might not be as tough on the body, but it is tough to do the travel they do and still perform at the levels they do each night. Not once a week. Football players might be paid for pain, but baseball players are paid for endurance.

If you were and owner and could make $100,000,000 a year owning a baseball team and only $50,000,000 a year owning a football team, wouldn't you be willing to pay the baseball player more. Yup, you would.

Answer 5

Generally speaking, the highest paid athletes in any sport are actually worth more to the owners than the average paid ones. It is the stars that attract fans, and sells tickets. People dont go to see the Yankees, or watch them on TV, to see the utility infielder that bats .233 and makes 800k a year.
In answer to your second question, baseball players make more money than football players, because there is a much larger source of revenue in bseball than in football. Baseball has 162 games with the potential for 50k fans at each one. Football has 16 games with the potential for 70k fans. Do the math.

Answer 6

Everyone picks on athletes salaries--how about television/movie stars. The judges on American Idol each make over $1 million a year, the stars of Friends all made about $1 million per episode at the end of the run. Many top movie stars make $10 million per movie (with a generally short work period involved). Yet people generally do not complain as much about the price of movie tickets (about $9.50 for an evening ticket here in Las Vegas) or the price of movie concessions ($3.75 for a bottle of water).

Answer 7

It's called a free market.

As long as the owner's feel that the contract is worth it, the players are worth it. MLB teams make money, so the cost of player's salary are clearly worth it.

Answer 8

Think about it. You work 8 months a year when you include spring training and October, get to "play" a game and can be paid as much as $35,000 per at bat. Even if you capped it at say, 10,000 per at bat that would still translate into 6 million bucks for a 600 at bat season or a paycheck of over $115,000 a week.

Answer 9

It does not matter what they are getting paid. As long as the fans are willing to keep on paying the price they do for the tickets, the players will get those big bucks. Me personality, They certainly are not worth it.

Answer 10

Its supply and demand pricing. If people would not pay to watch a ball game there would not be that much money to pay athletes with. If they do pay that much and the owners only paid the players $50,000 a year and kept $75,000,000.00 for them self , that would not be fair either. Should Ford and GM pay their employees $8 and hour ?