gabe
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Bye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
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Good on Bo for getting a big paychequeBye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
Report: Bo Bichette, Mets agree to three-year, $126-million deal
Sad to see him go, but that's the game
evandyk
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That makes him the fourth (? maybe? Hard to evaluate vs some of the contracts with huge deferred payments) highest paid player ever (on an annual basis), which was obviously too much to pay. I liked Bo, but not at 20% more than Vlad's price!
PL1
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It's nuts. He's a defensive liability (or he is at best average at SS)
Northern Light
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Bye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
Report: Bo Bichette, Mets agree to three-year, $126-million deal
$42 Million per year, for anyone, in any walk of life is comical. I get what your saying, that its comical even in the context of current baseball salaries; but the idea that anyone is paid roughly 35x the top neurosurgeon in Canada for throwing, catching or hitting a ball, however well is absurd.
doady
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MLB probably make billions per year. $42 million is nothing.
Northern Light
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42M is not 'nothing'; if baseball earns too much money due to lack of competition, there are ways to address that.
But lets be clear the average payroll for typical MLB team last year was 160M or just over 6M per year, per player, if that were reduced, merely to what the top neurosurgeon in the country might earn (1.5M per year); then you'd save ~4.4B per year, which would pay for a lot of healthcare, cheaper tuition or affordable housing.
Apply that math to all the major sports, see the dividend multiply, and yes CEO pay reduction should follow suit.
doady
Senior Member
I don't understand why you want to reduce Bo Bichette's salary to $1.5 million. Should Taylor Swift's salary be reduced to $1.5 million too?
I lost my driver's license due to epilepsy, and even I don't care if they make money than a neurosurgeon.
If MLB team makes hundreds of millions per year, then the top MLB players gonna make tens of millions per year. You want the billionaire team owner to pocket those hundreds of millions? Who is the little guy here?
If you want to reduce player salaries, just stop watching baseball. Get your friends and family to stop watching baseball. Ad revenue and ticket sales will decline. Voila, less money for the players.
I lost my driver's license due to epilepsy, and even I don't care if they make money than a neurosurgeon.
If MLB team makes hundreds of millions per year, then the top MLB players gonna make tens of millions per year. You want the billionaire team owner to pocket those hundreds of millions? Who is the little guy here?
If you want to reduce player salaries, just stop watching baseball. Get your friends and family to stop watching baseball. Ad revenue and ticket sales will decline. Voila, less money for the players.
evandyk
Senior Member
Cristiano Ronaldo gets a salary of $225M to putter around in the Saudi league.