How soon until the average baseball player makes ten million a year?

[Blackout]

given the rediculous contracts handed out this year, i say probably 2015

what do you guys think?



I haven't attneded a ballgame since I went to Wrigley field in 2004, and I can't say I miss the experience enough to pay $50,000 for a ticket at any games in 2007


now if a relative buys me one on the other hand i'll surely go :D

[Yankee Legend]

You're always gonna see increasing salaries as time goes by. If we went back to 1985, we will ask how long it will be until the average player nakes over a million a year and low and behold...

[NYMets523]

Eventually what will happen is every person is going to have their son to be a ball player and the market will overflood with players. As in real economics, the prices go down when the supply exceeds the demand.

[Blackout]

Eventually what will happen is every person is going to have their son to be a ball player and the market will overflood with players. As in real economics, the prices go down when the supply exceeds the demand.

so in non corporate terms what are you saying?

[SamtheBravesFan]

so in non corporate terms what are you saying?

I can't believe you didn't understand that, but here goes.

The second that there are too many ballplayers making BIG bucks, prices will go down. The market will not be able to bear an average $10 million salary.

[rockin500]

I can't believe you didn't understand that, but here goes.

The second that there are too many ballplayers making BIG bucks, prices will go down. The market will not be able to bear an average $10 million salary.
no it wont. and also, while the mean salary is like $2.8M, the median salary is still somewhere south of 800,000 (if not quite a bit lower).

several outlandish contracts are whats driving the mean salary so high.

[tearforamariner]

no it wont. and also, while the mean salary is like $2.8M, the median salary is still somewhere south of 800,000 (if not quite a bit lower).

several outlandish contracts are whats driving the mean salary so high.

I read in the Sporting News some time this past year that the median salary was about $780,000.

[Ubiquitous]

The salaries will only go down if the revenue goes down. If revenue continues to grow then you will see salaries continue to rise. Salaries will not simply go down because players are making big bucks, that isn't how market forces work.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

The most general trend will certainly continue to rise, as it always has. But it most definitley won't rise at the pace we see this season. There will always be ebb and flow, and owners will smarten up about spending one year, just to go and blow the bank the next year.

[bluezebra]

I can't believe you didn't understand that, but here goes.

The second that there are too many ballplayers making BIG bucks, prices will go down. The market will not be able to bear an average $10 million salary.

It's just the opposite. More players getting these insane (undeserved) salaries, means higher ticket prices, higher concession prices, higher souvenir prices and higher parking fees.

Bob

[Old Sweater]

You're always gonna see increasing salaries as time goes by. If we went back to 1985, we will ask how long it will be until the average player nakes over a million a year and low and behold...

I remember telling some old geezers that the average salary was going to go up to a mil. a year after CBS(?) sunk 1.2 billion to get the Game of the Week and ESPN added quite a bit. They looked at me like I had 2 heads.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I remember telling some old geezers that the average salary was going to go up to a mil. a year after CBS(?) sunk 1.2 billion to get the Game of the Week and ESPN added quite a bit. They looked at me like I had 2 heads.
That's it, though, the difference between now and twenty and even ten years ago. Whe teams put those exorbitant broadcast fees back into the team, the salaries will get higher and higher and rightfully so. The question is, is there a ceiling for how much networks are willing to shell out or sponsors are willing to pay for ad time and space?
If the ratings stop being enugh to justify t, the escalating trend will end. Because no amount of popcorn will make up for that loss in revenue. I've heard some teams, based on their TV deals, don't need to sell a lot of tickets. The season is bought and paid for before the gate is first opened.

[SamtheBravesFan]

It's just the opposite. More players getting these insane (undeserved) salaries, means higher ticket prices, higher concession prices, higher souvenir prices and higher parking fees.

Bob

Not THOSE prices. I meant baseball players' salaries.

[TonyK]

I remember telling some old geezers that the average salary was going to go up to a mil. a year after CBS(?) sunk 1.2 billion to get the Game of the Week and ESPN added quite a bit. They looked at me like I had 2 heads.

You were just a"head" of your time!

[TonyK]

We are at the point where a starting pitcher is being paid around a million dollars a projected win.

[Brooklyn]

Not in the near future. If the average salary was $10 million, then the average payroll would be $250 million. EVen the Yankees aren't there now. It will be a long time until payrolls get that high. I won't say never, but not in the next decade or two

[SamtheBravesFan]

Not in the near future. If the average salary was $10 million, then the average payroll would be $250 million. EVen the Yankees aren't there now. It will be a long time until payrolls get that high. I won't say never, but not in the next decade or two

There would have to be unprecedented revenue for that to happen and you know it.