Alex Rodriguez isn't the highest paid player in MLB?

[Lager]

Whoa

Looks like Alex Rodriguez isn't the highest paid player in the league.

 

[tm37]

and to think the pardes traded him to have kevin brown for one year.

 

[thawolfman]

Who?!

 

[Miramonti]

haha

 

[Kevin]

Is there a signing bonus or something? Baseball has salaries structured differently. For example, look at Roger Clemens. This year he is earning $0. However, the Yankees will be paying him for like the next 12 years or something...

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Is there a signing bonus or something? Baseball has salaries structured differently. For example, look at Roger Clemens. This year he is earning $0. However, the Yankees will be paying him for like the next 12 years or something...

It's called a typo.

I don't recall offhand, but I don't believe the entire 2003 Florida Marlins' player payroll is over $42 million this season.

And yes, deferred compensation was/is increasingly popular in MLB recently. Many players (or more accurately their financial advisers) saw the tax cut writing on the wall when G.W. Bush became president and foresaw millions of dollars in reduced federal income tax payments by deferring $$. It was also a way for teams to make a huge splash in the free agent market without literally breaking the bank for a few more years.

While it's a fuzzy numbers game, the assumption is still that many franchises are willing to sustain consistent operating losses so long as the franchise value appreciates enough to sustain the pyramid scheme. Judging from Disney's recent net-loss sale of the Angels, this is a poor assumption for many baseball franchises. The Dodgers' eventual sale (one of a handfull of premiere franchises) will establish a true benchmark, but is unlikely to be a nice profit for Fox either

 

[Kevin]

Ahh, type: $4,250,000

 

[LikeLinus]

It's a typo guys. Do your research.

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

 

[Lager]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
It's a typo guys. Do your research.

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

He's still overpaid.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: coldcut

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
It's a typo guys. Do your research.

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

He's still overpaid.

Yep but that wasn't in question in the topic. All baseball players are overpaid. It's a game!

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
It's a typo guys. Do your research.

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

Yes I do.

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Is there a signing bonus or something? Baseball has salaries structured differently. For example, look at Roger Clemens. This year he is earning $0. However, the Yankees will be paying him for like the next 12 years or something...

actually, the yankees will be paying clemens 8 mill or so from last year. it was deferred. then the RESIGNED him and he allowed them to defer this years salary, so i guess in some ways you could say he's getting 0, but he really isn't.