Let's categorize this one under depressing for most small and mid market baseball teams.
A-Rod is paid more than the entire Florida Marlins roster.
This is unbelievable. A-Rod will make $28M this season, the 33 player Florida Marlins? $21.8M. The average salary in the bigs just passed $3M, yet the Marlins do not have a single player that makes the AVERAGE.
Revenue sharing and a hard cap is what has made the NFL the dominant American sports league. Greater revenue sharing and a minimum salary floor is what's necessary to fix MLB.
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However, one could argue that the Marlins business model creates more excitement for their fans. Consider this, they've won the World Series more recently than A-Rod's employer and only two teams (the Sox and the Yanks) have won the same or more titles than the Marlins over the last 12 years.
And don't look now, but when the NFL renegotiates the collective bargaining agreement next year, they are likely to remove the salary cap. Probably because players see how high salaries can go when the look at MLB.
P.S. I walked past Wrigley today.
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