MLB Player Salaries: Justified?

I may be in the minority, but personally, I don’t think any professional athlete, be it baseball, football, basketball or whatever, is worth the money they are paid. Tim MaCarver, sportscaster and former major leaguer, summed it up perfectly when he said something about the fact that “it would be better if the fans didn’t really know everything in these contracts. They just get mad.”

But, like so many other facets of life for the Joe Citizens, like the politicians in Washington, there’s nothing you can do to change the system, so you might as well forget about it and carry on like you don’t care. all the thing.

As a former minor leaguer, I can usually ignore the business side of baseball and focus on looking at the skills exemplified by some of these players, like Albert Pujos, who is absolutely amazing and worth every penny he makes if anyone does.

Then all of a sudden something happens on the field that brings the reality of the ridiculous salaries being paid crashing down on me again. One such example occurred on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, when the St. Louis Cardinals botched an easy play that cost them a run and ultimately the ballgame.

Now I am not Einstein, but since I was 8 years old I have been taught to forever Chase the runner, who is stuck in the run, back to the base he came from to limit the damage if there is a miss. The runner is on the original base and did not advance due to an error.

I also taught you never Fake a pitch while chasing the running back, because you can fool your own teammate. You clearly hold the ball away from your body, at shoulder height so the other fielder can see it clearly.

Now keep in mind that we were doing this play at age 8 and we were paying the association to play, we weren’t getting paid to play.

The simple and disgusting ending to this story was that the St. Louis Cardinal infielders did everything wrong during this roundup that could possibly have been done wrong.

They ended up chasing the runner to home plate instead of back to third base, followed up with fake throws that eventually caught the pitcher off guard without waiting for the throw, causing him to drop the ball and allowing the runner to scored. Which, as I said before, turned out to be the winning race.

Although I’m not aware of exact player salaries, I’d feel pretty comfortable estimating that the players involved in this 3-ring circus make around $15 million a year, if not more.

Am I angry about wages? Yes. However, I can learn to live with that if players would only play up to expectations and not run a rundown, which 8-year-olds perform perfectly, is not my idea of ​​living up to expectations.