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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Teams spend $1.4 bil in 1 day; then MLB locks out players
By JAKE SEINER NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ArtistAtLarge
I love baseball but these salaries are insane.
lostrune2
Contracts have actually been decreasing. Spring training is still a ways away, so no need to be too concerned about the lockout for now
Essentially, one of the big points of contention is that the players want to be paid their worth earlier in their career. For example, Shohei Ohtani is already a MVP, but he's only paid $3M this season and $5.5M next season
While the owners don't care if the players get their big paycheck earlier in their career, so long as the total amount of pay throughout their career is the same. Usually by the time the players get their biggest contract, it's when they start to go down from their peak, so by the tail-end of the contract, they're getting paid high for diminished returns
So both sides have to resolve that if they want to avoid a 1994-95 washout without a World Series. The Sammy Sosa - Mark McGwire homerun record chase of 1998 helped save the league back to the good graces of the fans then. Who knows what it would take, if any, to save it if there's another washout